Liverpool midfielder Alberto Aquilani said today that he hopes to complete a permanent move to Juventus after completing a season long loan at the Italian club this campaign:
“I hope to convince the directors of Juventus to buy me from Liverpool. At Juve I would like to open a new era with the team. Sixteen million euros is a lot, but they can negotiate. Juve was a huge opportunity for me, I could not lose it. Leaving Italy was not easy, I faced many life changes.”
The prevailing wisdom among Reds fans was that sending the Italian out on loan was a huge mistake. At the start of the season, Roy Hodgson bemoaned the size of his squad and stated that Aquilani would not get the game time he needed. He was shipped out to Juve without any fee being paid though, and without any guarantee that he would be sold to the Old Lady at the end of it. It seemed like a lose-lose situation for the Reds as if he did well, Juventus would more than likely want to make the deal permanent while if had injury problems or lacked form, he would return to the Reds at the end of the season with no real benefit to the loan spell.
During his time at Juventus so far, Aquilani has impressed and many Reds fans are ruing the decision that Roy Hodgson made in the summer to let the player go on loan for free without any money to replace the player who fulfilled a crucial creative role in midfield. The acquisition of Raul Meireles placated any misgivings for a while and it was believed that the Portuguese international could provide an Alonso style presence in the centre of the park. Hodgson, rather than using the player in his favoured position though, has often played Meireles on the right side of midfield or behind the main striker. Sending a good player out on loan and replacing him with a player who is not used in his best position does really rankle with me. Did Roy really know what he wanted during the summer transfer window or was he just going on instinct in his opinions on players such as Aquilani and Meireles?
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Sell him for 13 mill if they can cough it up Liverpool needs to spend money on players who want to be there.
sigh the price is allready agreed in is contract if they want to make it permanent they pay this price and its cant be stioopped. end of
he was shipped out because he was moaning about the training in pre season and indeed faked an injury this was brought to light by dalle valle and he was shipped out soon after roy obviously hates sneaks and phonies
Good point David. We should not have sent him on loan anyway – and giving Juve the option to buy him for less than what we paid confounded this mistake further.
Letting Aqua go on loan was madness, as was letting Insua go on loan.
Keeping these 2, and promoting Spearing and Gulacsi (better than Poulsen and Jones) would have meant we could have used the £22m ( we spent on Meireles, Konchesky, Poulsen and Brad Jones), in areas that did need strengthening.
I would not trust Woy with another bean.
bang on sib, agree totally!!
aqua was loaned because his game doesnt suit hodgsons style..hodgson likes players with very good work rates and who can defend as well as attack..his main tactic is defensive organisation and attacking opponents on counter attacks,set pieces ect
Aquilani does have a really good work rate and he has the guile and creativity to change a game as well.
What I would like to know though is which of our current players are at this moment fitting into Roy Hodgson style of play.
I’ll guess, NONE OF THEM.
Aqua was loaned because he’s too fragile and not suited to the English game. He was loaned with the hope some team would take him off our hands and help us recoup the completely MAD outlay Rafa made and to take his wage bill off our books.
It was a good loan out as it looks like Juve may take him, had he stayed, he would most likely have got injured and be worth 50p.
Juventus may try to get him on the cheap but if he is playing well sell him to Inter or Roma -or pretend their dead keen – its all bluff with football anyway but LFC need to let him go – too fragile by half.
Loaning him out to Juventus does not make any sense at all, the same implies to Insua. As David says, the decision is a lose-lose situation for us and the only party that benefits from this is Juventus. We lose a player for free for a season and Juventus get him for free for a season. In the summer, if they decide to buy him, we lose out because we’d only get 13m and if they decide against buying him, we lose out cause we just lost a quality creative midfielder for an entire season.
If aqua is happy coming back then we can hav him to prove himself bcos I don’t c any sense in holding onto an unhappy player. But my concern is does Roy spend such huge million on meireless without having a position he wants to play him in mind?
All these guys who say players are “too fragile” for the English might be able to explain then why the English teams fear them the most on Euro competitions? If they are “fragile” then EPL teams should be able to simply bulldoze them aside – something that does happen but not that often!