Aquilani - stay or go?

[kop-al-74]

aaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh not more ****ing alonso - rafa chat!!!!!!!

aqua wants to go home. thats plainly obvious. he are willing to sell which is also plainly obvious. we have been trying to get the player the move he wants all summer but as no one is willing to do a fair deal with us he is stuck here. i rate him as a player and beleive he could have done a job for us. however, it is an enrique situation IMO where a last minute deal will be agreed (again IMO a cut price 7 mill or so) to take aqua to italy.

He only wants to go home to play football....if he felt that he was included in the managers first team plans I'm sure he would want to stay.

[Fredo]

Rafa ****ed it up royally. bait

Oh fack off.

[Lee]

Oh fack off.

[Vermilion]

Kenneth does the old w/t bait thing far too often, and it's thrown in there with little subtlety either...

[Buzzo]

So no deal then.
Looks like he is staying, which isn't a bad thing. It's good to have options ,no?

This indecision's bugging me...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Gn0e7kvTA&feature=related"]‪The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go?‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]

[Fredo]

Kenneth does the old w/t bait thing far too often, and it's thrown in there with little subtlety either...

It was an awful bait, seen it from a distance but couldn't pass up the opportunity to mouth him off.

[Lecter]

Of course it has something to do with you rating him. You're not at all bothered at the prospect of loaning him out. If you rated him as a player then you would feel different. Do you think anyone would give a **** if Poulson was loaned out?

The benefits of keeping Aquilani?
* He is extremely comfourtable on the ball
* He's a great passer
* Excellent technique
* Capable of scoring goals
* Links play extremely well
* Creative
* Adds a touch of flair to central midfield
* Excellent at playing through balls
* Great vision
* Just had an injury free season, which suggests that he may have overcome his injury problems

Balance his qualities against a 900k fee and the cost of his wages... it's a bad deal for us! At the end of the day, he's different to our other midfielders. He would add a lot of depth to our team, even if he's only offering competition.

Even if Aquilani goes to Fiorentina, plays out of his skin, we can only recoup 9 million. It just makes no sense to me at all.

No thats not what I said

I didnt say give me the benefits of him as a player

I asked what benefits are there from keeping a player who is unhappy, desperately wants to leave and we have already bought replacement(s) for

As for the rating stuff its **** ALL to do with rating him, its that he wants to go that makes me want to let him go

For me (and it appears for the club) they only want players who WANT to play for LFC

Aquilani doesnt

[Lecter]

I don't really follow your point as to why he hasn't put in a tranfer request? If he is THAT unhappy, surely that would help him get his wish.

ALL that putting in a transfer request does is negate your loyalty bonuses/wage pay offs

Aquilani has already waived them

[Lecter]

You honestly believe that had Rafa not attempted to sell him, he would have turned Madrid down ?

I really really don't, and for me..that equates to wanting to leave.

I have no problem with that though, it's his home, and the biggest club in HIS country and maybe the world came calling, he was offski..regardless of anything else imo.

No I dont, but the catalyst was Rafas decision 12 months earlier which I'm sure made any decision Alonso had to make much easier

[Fredo]

Come on guys, not this again.

[Lecter]

I'm glad the deal has fallen through.Now maybe we can try to find a way to include a very talented footballer into our team,it can't be that hard,surely!Appart from Gerrard and Lucas,he's the best of the rest of the midfielders imo.

I'm not

We are stuck with an unhappy player, paying him enormous wages, we have already bought other players as replacements and this will impact on other potential signings

[Fredo]

In hindsight I think it was a bad decision by Rafa but Aquilani can play, I don't know what has happened in 2 years and why he so badly wants out. At least for the best part of a year, Rafa wasn't there to take the blame for him wanting to butt out.

[JohnDoe]

I'm disappointed. If Kenny wanted Aquilani, we would never try to flog him off. He's a good player, but not in our plans, so if we're failing to sell him and cut costs it'll be difficult for us to strengthen elsewhere.

[Zapater]

No thats not what I said

I didnt say give me the benefits of him as a player

I asked what benefits are there from keeping a player who is unhappy, desperately wants to leave and we have already bought replacement(s) for

As for the rating stuff its **** ALL to do with rating him, its that he wants to go that makes me want to let him go

For me (and it appears for the club) they only want players who WANT to play for LFC

Aquilani doesnt

"I return to Liverpool with great enthusiasm," ... "This is not a problem. It's not true that I didn't want to return to England."

[Lecter]

"I return to Liverpool with great enthusiasm," ... "This is not a problem. It's not true that I didn't want to return to England."

Didnt Torres say he wanted to stay in October of last year?

I think the way Aquilani has conducted himself publicly has been impeccable

But from what I've heard he DEFINITELY doesnt want to be here