So, what of Aquilani?

[Mostar]

**** them. I say bring him back. The tight fisted ****s can shop elsewhere.

Playing hardball FTW

[Drago]

We're gonna end up with an expensive crock who doesn't suit the prem wasting away on the bench.

[RichC]

I very much doubt we'll see Aqualani leave for anything less than the previously agreed fee, one thing you could take from the Jan window is that FSG will not roll over and take what their offered for players.

So either we get the full pre-agreed amount, he stays or he leaves to someone else for a fee we think is acceptable.

[Exiled_red]

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/...2534-28217184/


Juventus look at alternatives to Alberto Aquilani Liverpool FC move

I though he was supposedly having a good season? It sounds like a negotiating ploy. I think we have to accept that Juventus are a good negotiating team based on the fact that they persuaded us to pay £5m for Poulsen

[red g]

I though he was supposedly having a good season? It sounds like a negotiating ploy. I think we have to accept that Juventus are a good negotiating team based on the fact that they persuaded us to pay £5m for Poulsen

I think the fault lays firmly at the door of bodge for that travesty.

[Mostar]

I though he was supposedly having a good season? It sounds like a negotiating ploy. I think we have to accept that Juventus are a good negotiating team based on the fact that they persuaded us to pay £5m for Poulsen

Nothing more. He's been on of their best players this year without any doubt.

I hope they don't think we are that stupid. We do have TVs and PCs..****ing cunts.

[Bender]

Alberto Aquilani will look to make a permanent switch to Juventus in the summer following his loan spell from Liverpool, according to the player's agent.

Juventus boss Giuseppe Marotta admitted recently that he fully expects to seal a permanent deal for the 26-year-old in the summer.

Aquilani endured a difficult spell at Liverpool following his big-money move from Roma in 2009, with the club eventually agreeing to a season-long loan with the Turin giants in the summer.

Currently sitting seventh in Serie A, Juve have the option to buy the playmaker; an option Aquilani's agent Franco Zavaglia believes will be utilised.

"Juventus and Liverpool have established an agreement for the player," Zavaglia told Radio-Mercato.

"The Bianconeri's leadership is absolutely determined to retain the player at the end of the season and they have repeated it several times.

"Everything that has been said recently about Aquilani is just assumptions. Liverpool will not discount the player and he will only be sold on the predetermined basis.

"If Juventus will not retain him, he returns to Liverpool even if the player wants to play in Italy, but I don't think in Italy there are another clubs other than Juventus which can take him." SKYSPORTS

[BillobShaisley]

Wonder if this is a case of the money Alberto was getting from us following his big transfer influencing his negotiations with Juve ?
Anyone remember how much he was/is on with us ?

It probably is, but the nonsense in the article is the idea that the only value considerations are fee and wages. What they are not thinking about is that Aquilani will have some resale value and Pirlo will not. Also the convenience in that Aquilani has 5-10 years left in him and pirlo about 2 if he's lucky.

[Mostar]

They may not be able to buy him out after all..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12599543

Juventus football club suffers 39m euros loss

Italian football giant Juventus lost 39.5m (£24.3m) euros in the first half of the 2010/11 season, compared with a 14.2m euros profit a year earlier.

Revenue for the period was 88.8m euros, down 29% on the 125m euros figure in the same period 12 months before.

The club's revenues have been hit by only competing in the Europa League, rather than the Champions League.

It has also been affected by changes to the way Italian clubs share money from television rights.

The board of the Turin-based club said it was predicting "a significant loss" for the 27-times Serie A champions between now and the end of the season.

The club is seventh at the moment in Serie A, seven points outside the Champions League qualification spots.

"Economic trends in the 2010/11 financial year were negatively influenced by the club's failure to qualify for the UEFA Champions League, implying lower revenues from European competitions and lower commercial revenue, as well as the effects stemming from the regulations of the centralised sale of [Italian] television rights coming into force," the club said in a statement.

"Accordingly, on the basis of the information currently available and in the absence of any extraordinary events, the 2010/11 financial year is expected to close with a significant loss.

"Nonetheless, the company is confident it has the resources necessary to tackle the negative trend of the current financial year."

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company SA, or Lafico, owns a 7.5% stake in the club.

However, the future of this stake has been clouded in uncertainty in the past week.

[Shaggy]

The likelihood of Italian midfielder Alberto Aquilani returning to Liverpool is becoming more and more likely by the day after it was revealed Juventus made a €39.5million (£33.5m) loss in the first half of the 2010/11 season.

Aquilani was sent out on loan to the Turin based club by former Reds boss Roy Hodgson last summer, with Juventus given the option to buy him for around £14million this coming summer.

But Juventus’ finances are looking in bad shape, and the team themselves are only seventh in Serie A with 11 games to go.

Revenue for the club was down 29% from the year before, with a “significant loss” predicted for the rest of the campaign.

This is likely to ensure they don’t have the resources to sign Aquilani on a permanent deal, which could pave the way for his return to Merseyside

As we reported last week Juventus are only willing to offer £5million for the Italian international.

Aquilani struggled with injury and fitness during his first season at Liverpool, following an £18million move from Roma.

[RichC]

If thats the case with Juve then he can come back to Anfield for next season or move to a team that meets our valuation of him.

[The Birdman]

I'd have him back in a heartbeat, would be a brilliant player in our current system and style of play

[Exiled_red]

Does anyone thing he could play the playmaker role for us in the Premiership?

Personally I'm unsure I see him wanting to play the more attacking role of our midfielders, making it one of Gerrard, Meireles and Aquilani (if he stays).

[Shaggy]

I'd have him back in a heartbeat, would be a brilliant player in our current system and style of play

[Mostar]

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