All Things Alberto Aquilani

[Bender]

Alberto Aquilani has revealed he is still struggling to learn English and admits he must improve his language skills in order to make the most of his Liverpool career.
The 25-year-old Italy midfielder arrived from Roma for £20million last summer, but has since struggled to break into the Anfield first team through injuries and poor form.
And Aquilani has now admitted he is struggling both with learning English and the weather. He does insist, however, that he is happy at the Reds and wants to succeed for the club's supporters.
'I don't speak English very well,' he admitted. 'Now I understand more than I did before but I have to improve.
'I am not having regular lessons at the moment. At first I did but it has been difficult more recently and my English teacher is angry about this.
'It has been difficult because at one time my family were here so I couldn't do the lesson, another time we had too many games [you haven't played in too many games] and sometimes it just feels too much.
'But I like everything in England, I just don't like the weather. I like the people, the supporters, the city and playing here. And I want to play well here.'
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[SB]

Find me someone who does like the English weather and I'll show you a nut case

[el matador]

Find me someone who does like the English weather and I'll show you a nut case

eskimos ?

[Kenneth]

Not much point learning the language when he'll be gone in the summer I guess.

[Exiled_red]

eskimos ?

nah, they wouldn't like it it's too warm

[Woobus]

eskimos ?

Doubt it the rain would melt their igloos

[Baracus]

http://www.est1892.co.uk/forums/show...9&postcount=26

"That article is pretty damning.

If you read between the lines. Auqilani will not start against sunderland and will be sold in the summer. Rafa is cheeky cunt"

I said it before and I'll keep saying it. Even more so considering we've been linked with Javi Martinez again

[Shanks]

Not much point learning the language when he'll be gone in the summer I guess.

I agree but for how much though?
I'm guessing he will be sold rather than loaned out..

[dww]

I think he'll stay. I think people are too quick to write people off. I expect Aquilani to be given a fair crack at things much as Babel has been.

[The Birdman]

It'll depend if someone comes in and offers us more than we have paid for him, if they do then in our financial position we have to consider it whoever they are with the exception of Torres, Reina and Gerrard.
In that order.

[dww]

It'll depend if someone comes in and offers us more than we have paid for him, if they do then in our financial position we have to consider it whoever they are with the exception of Torres, Reina and Gerrard.
In that order.

I take that point but up 'til now Aquilani has cost what something of the order of £10m. I really can't see many teams wanting to take a punt on him for much more than that any way. So the pure financial motivation for a transfer seems limited to me.

[Kenneth]

It'll depend if someone comes in and offers us more than we have paid for him, if they do then in our financial position we have to consider it whoever they are with the exception of Torres, Reina and Gerrard.
In that order.

There is precisely no chance of that happening.

[BillobShaisley]

He needs a kick up the arse over his english lessons. Raffa wont like the like of application displayed. He's been injured and earns a lot of money, if you can't fit an english lesson in around shopping and entertaining then something is wrong.

He does look like a bit of thick ****er so I guess that needs taking into account.

[red g]

He needs a kick up the arse over his english lessons. Raffa wont like the like of application displayed. He's been injured and earns a lot of money, if you can't fit an english lesson in around shopping and entertaining then something is wrong.

He does look like a bit of thick ****er so I guess that needs taking into account.

wobbly eye-ist

[Redspin]

Find me someone who does like the English weather and I'll show you a nut case

I've travelled the world - and still do - and I've never found a place where it's so mild year-round. I think it was Charles II when he was in exile who said he missed England because it was the only country in the world where you could go for a walk on every day of the year. An overstatement of course, but he's right in that - the recent winter apart - it's usually never too cold or too hot to be unpleasant.

Considering the latitude the UK lies at there's nowhere at the same latitude where it's so mild. Due west of the British Isles, whereas we can swim in the sea (no colder than the Pacific off California, trust me) Canada has icebergs off its coast and polar bears in Hudson Bay. The Titanic was stuck by an iceberg while considerably nearer the equator than its point of departure in England

As Bill Bryson amusingly said in one of hs books, his ancestors left England to look for a better life and they settled in Iowa, where they spent half the year dodging tornadoes and the other half of the year shovelling snow!