Aquilani

[Guest]

We're ****ing winning and there's no need to change a winning team, no matter how good or bad we're playing.

[saj]

Who is Aquilani and what does he do?

[Joe King]

Who is Aquilani and what does he do?

I have absolutely no idea who this Aquilani guy is.

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His eyes must at least be fit by now.

[Nick77]

You can't just throw him into a derby unless he's played a few games.

[saj]

I have absolutely no idea who this Aquilani guy is.

Yeah but you said that Aquilani is a guy. How do you know this?

[saj]

You can't just throw him into a derby unless he's played a few games.

You can if he cost £17 million pounds.

[cream]

I think that people are missing the point that, in addition to his many injuries, the fella has to adjust to a totally new league at the same time. I think Rafa knows that bringing an Italian, who is used to a much slower paced game, into a struggling team, could have an effect on the lad's confidence.

Lets call a spade a spade, Rafa is not going to spend the guts of £20M on a player and keep him on the bench cos he feels like it. He's playing the slow game so that when he does come in, he'll have an impact and he'll perform in the way we all want him to.

Absolutely spot-on. Putting on a player who is not up to the level required is a big risk, especially when we are protecting a 1-0 lead.

[Guest]

You can if he cost £17 million pounds.

Now that is one frustrated individual that you are. FFS, give Rafa a ****ing break will you? I guess you would have been very happy if Aquilani played and we lost today is it?

****ing hell, some people just need a kick up the backside on here.

[lackyboy]

You can if he cost £17 million pounds.

Hoping thats in jest Saj? Couldn't care less on the cost - if the signing is not playing it's for a reason! Risk v Reward doesn't make sense. Sooner he was fit for the remainder of his time rather than rushed back and injured continually.

[Shanks]

Not heard any moaning about Aquilani not being used today.

Should have gave him 30mins,replacing gerrard.

he should have had more than 30 mins by now though.

he needs match time nothing more nothing less

Now look what you've done.

[Exiled_red]

Now look what you've done.

[G]

Not heard any moaning about Aquilani not being used today. It's obvious the midweek bollocks was knee-jerk reactions to us being dumped out of the champs league, fueled by Skysports and in particular Andy Gray. Some of our clueless fans are our worst enemy.

Yeah what site did you rob that opinion off of.

A derby is never a game to give him minutes in if he's only had 9 minutes in the league so far.

He should've played today by virtue of being given minutes against City,Birmingham and Debrecen before todays game

[Joe King]

Yeah but you said that Aquilani is a guy. How do you know this?

[banditos]

I'd be very surprised if he doesn't get some decent game time against Fiornetina.