Aquilani - stay or go?

[Lecter]

If he's so desperate, he should try to lower his wage demands and make something more permanent happen? This is strange as not long ago, both parties were saying that they have no qualms in him coming back. I don't buy for one second that he wants to go.

He apparently has!!!

He dropped his wage demands from £8 million over 2 years to £8 million over 3 years! (if you believe the reports)

[Lecter]

Well we keep him and make him earn his place then. This constant loaning of a £17m footballer is a utter joke. We've got new owners but we still appear to be the whipping boys of the world transfer market. They want him, they should pay for him. They don't then, well, he signed a contract and he's a professional.

A farcical situation

This is all well and good until you keep the unhappy player at the club and he fails to perform in training and doesnt perform when hes given the chance on the pitch (which is likely to happen imo)

You then watch his value plummet further

I dont see the problem with this loan to be honest

IF its successful we get circa €11 million for him

IF it isnt successful we'll be faced with selling the player next summer and I'd bet the price would not be significantly different than if we kept him here and played him when hes unhappy

[Lecter]

If he's so desperate to leave, why hasn't he put in a transfer request? It would save us having to pay him off and allow us to accept a lower fee.

Hes apparently foregone his pay off according to the rumours this morning



mario_aquilina Mario Aquilina
by royhendo
#Aquilani It's happening very soon, possibly today. Loan deal for 1 million euro and option to buy at 10million euro.

mario_aquilina Mario Aquilina
by royhendo
Liverpool and player wanted a permanent transfer or at least a 'comproprieta' (part ownership) but Fiorentina don't want this.

mario_aquilina Mario Aquilina
by royhendo
Liverpool will not be paying any severance money and the player will earn significantly less than he gets here.

[Kenneth]

See you next summer Alberto and we can do it all again.

[Mostar]

Hes apparently foregone his pay off according to the rumours this morning



mario_aquilina Mario Aquilina
by royhendo
#Aquilani It's happening very soon, possibly today. Loan deal for 1 million euro and option to buy at 10million euro.

mario_aquilina Mario Aquilina
by royhendo
Liverpool and player wanted a permanent transfer or at least a 'comproprieta' (part ownership) but Fiorentina don't want this.

mario_aquilina Mario Aquilina
by royhendo
Liverpool will not be paying any severance money and the player will earn significantly less than he gets here.

This is really getting ridiculous.

They are playing us in the same way as Juve did last year.

There is no guarantee they will buy him outright next year and very likely we will be presented with the similar situation next summer once again.

Sell him fine but loan him absolutely not.

If he wants to leave his agent will need to do a better job instead constantly blabbing in the press and find him a club that wants to pay for his services.

[Tee]

Its like Rick Parry never left.

[Exiled_red]

Hes apparently foregone his pay off according to the rumours this morning

mario_aquilina Mario Aquilina
by royhendo
#Aquilani It's happening very soon, possibly today. Loan deal for 1 million euro and option to buy at 10million euro.

mario_aquilina Mario Aquilina
by royhendo
Liverpool and player wanted a permanent transfer or at least a 'comproprieta' (part ownership) but Fiorentina don't want this.

mario_aquilina Mario Aquilina
by royhendo
Liverpool will not be paying any severance money and the player will earn significantly less than he gets here.

If he's only going on loan why would he be due a pay off? Surely that only happens for a permanent deal?

[Fernandinho]

They better pay his wages too...

[Cormack74]

And you're forgetting Suarez who everyone reckons was a bargain.

You can't use him, he's already counterbalancing the overpayment on Carroll

[Neil Young]

I voted loan by the way. Just to be contrary.

[Lecter]

If he's only going on loan why would he be due a pay off? Surely that only happens for a permanent deal?

Because the deal is clearly 1 year loan with an option to buy at €X million at the end of the loan

So all severances, fees and wages will be worked out and agreed in advance so that in the event Fiorentina take the option to purchase there is no further hiccups

If it wasnt worked out in advance we wouldnt agree to the loan and neither would the player

[Lecter]

This is really getting ridiculous.

They are playing us in the same way as Juve did last year.

There is no guarantee they will buy him outright next year and very likely we will be presented with the similar situation next summer once again.

Sell him fine but loan him absolutely not.

If he wants to leave his agent will need to do a better job instead constantly blabbing in the press and find him a club that wants to pay for his services.

There is no guarantee we can find a better buyer

Equally there is no guarantee that keeping an unhappy player here and playing him will increase his value

Its a calculated gamble imo and to be honest even if Fiorentina didnt take up the option we imo will probably be no worse off (in terms of potential fee)

The major problem we have is the player desperately wanting to go back to Italy

If that wasnt the case then I could see the sense in holding and selling in a years time

[Cormack74]

I voted loan by the way. Just to be contrary.

You?

[Cormack74]

I vote we loan him to QPR;

39,000 Italian born residents in London so he should find some company.

Italian owner.

Pots of cash to pay his wages.

Chance to show whether he's up to performing in the prem.

Sorted.

[Tee]

TBF once he was fully fit he proved he was up to performing in the PL (in Rafa's team).