Considering he has been pursuing the Scot since his arrival in January I seriously doubt he will reconsider unless he feels Aquilani has the ability to do a better job than Adam, now that he is staying. There is a possibility that Kenny was pursuing Adam because he assumed that Aquilani would depart this summer, but you also have to take into account the desire of the player in question.
Both Aqua and his agent have made it abundantly clear that he wishes to stay in Italy. Currently that doesn’t seem possible but I doubt Kenny would want a player who feels he should be somewhere else. There could be an element of Aquilani coming back to put himself in the shop window, rather than being committed to the Reds. I could be wrong on that but one thing that is for certain is that he will return to pre-season training at Melwood because he is contracted to Liverpool.
This development of course leaves just a big a question mark over the future of Raul Meireles too. If a deal for Adam is completed, Kenny will surely favour his two new signings Henderson and Adam to fill any roles in midfield alongside Gerrard and Lucas. It would be a tremendous shame to see Meireles go; after all he played very well for what was his first season in the Premier League. He would have most probably improved next season but with rumours over a move to Juventus, it seems that he is no longer needed by Kenny.
Whatever the circumstances, 4 into 1 just doesn’t fit, and there will certainly have to be departures before the start of the season in August.
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jay spearing would be more dangerous in the air plaing on stevies shoulders.
another terrible comment from stan howard
aqua and poulsen arent wanted
shelvey and henderson are players for the future
and i cant see gerrard not being out injured for a lot of the season (unfortunately)
i think they will play with one defensive midfielder
either lucas or spearing and one attacking midfielder meireles or adam (if they buy him)
i think the meireles story is rubbish
Keep meireles stay (his heart is still reds) and let aquilani go (he have no reds in all of his body & soul).
Alan great post, what a good view on things, the BEST by a red for months.
I see shelvey as to young, to rash and needs more games, sho for me he would go out on loan.
I see spearing as just a squad player(wehat a great one to have).
I see raul better than aquilani at least he wants to be here, he siad in the guardian and on our offical web site only 4 weeks ago that he loves it at liverpool and would sign for 10 – 20 years, he is a good player.
I see aquilani as not wanting to be here, he seems to tell his agent something every other week, why after all we have doen to help him welcome him back only for him to keep going on and on about italy?? its a piss take really, love to sell him and get his wages of the wage bill.
If we can get rid of joe cole, poulsen and jovanovic and replace with adam, downing and henderson and by selling aquilani and then adding juan mata then thats about the best we could hope for.
downing, adam, gerrard, lucus,spearing, henderson, & raul to fight it out remeber we need great depth and we have not had that at liverpool for years!!
mata, kuyt, carroll, suarez
then all we need is a left back and a center half, cissokho and sakho would do me???? fingers crossed
Poulsen and Lucas (i think he’s overrated + to many mistakes in the game) should be sold and eventualy also Aqua (solid value).. We have one of the most talented midfield in the world with Jay, Shelvey & Jordan who are already ready to jump to highest level.. also Aurelio, Konchesky, Kyrgiakos, Jovanovic should all leave.. for that money we can afford maybe Coentrao or some other world class left back because i think we are weakest on that position.. with Andy, Luis and Dirk in front and Maxi, Cole, Ngog, Pacheco, Suso in the subs i think we are finaly able to WIN the league!!!! I know future is bright for Liverpool………. cheers
sell Poulsen, Konchesky, Jovanovic, Ngog n Joe Cole.
keep Meireles to get more option on midfield now lfc have gerrard, lucas, spearing, henderson, adam n aqulani. bring raheem sterling to the senior team
liverpool must sign coentrao, scott dann, and steward downing and mata next season to challenge for the title