Derailed! The Liverpool gravy train has been cancelled warns Rodgers

[Angryred]

hiring a hit man would be cheaper....

[Neil Young]

Bloody Virgin West Coast. No wonder they've lost the franchise.

[Pablo]

I guess the club is trying, but if Joe doesn't want to leave and take the pay cut. Then there isn't much we can do.

I've not read any indications anywhere that we are trying though. It appears we are happy to keep him on as a squad player.

[Mr Kipling]

There's no way Aquilani cost us £50 million. Maddock is just making **** up, as usual

[cream]

There's no way Aquilani cost us £50 million. Maddock is just making **** up, as usual

£20m transfer fee + 5 year contract @ £90k per week, can't be far off.

[Cormack74]

Don't think it was a flat £20m though. That fee was made up of add ons like CL qualification, trophies won etc IIRC

[Rich]

If only we knew!

[Cormack74]

Looking back - and however the fee was structured - it was reported at the time as being funded by sales:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/5978617/Liverpool-agree-20m-fee-with-Roma-for-Alberto-Aquilani.html

Aquilani is unlikely to mark the end of Benitez’s spending. Coupled with the arrival of Glen Johnson, the England international right-back for £17.5 million from Portsmouth earlier this summer, Benitez has now spent the £38 million raised through the sales of Alonso, Alvaro Arbeloa, Jack Hobbs and Sebastian Leto.

[elrichio86]

It was 20 million Euro's, not Pounds

€20m is approx £15.6m

[danperkins]

Ah god oul Aquilani one of the worst signings in the history of LFC, or any club for that matter.

Truly embarrassing stuff.

[BrooklynRed]

the game needs a financial model for competitive teams and financial stability-- all of the major leagues should band together and the players should form a real union and they should set up a structure that makes the game sustainable.

[BootRoom]

Maddock in tabloid ****e shocker.

[destinydude]

It was 20 million Euro's, not Pounds

€20m is approx £15.6m

Back in the day pound was 1.1-1.12 euros. Now it's about 1.25

[Mostar]

Surely that £50m figure is bollocks.

Signed for £17m in 2009 and was here for 3 years so based on this he was on nearly 230k a week.

When he was on loan some of his wages would have been paid anyway.

We all know it was a disaster of a deal but that has got to be OTT.

[BobTheCharmer]

I like what Rodgers is saying here. I just don't believe in him yet.