Liverpool Set To Sell Alberto Aquilani

• zocoss

  12 May 10, 20:24

  Liverpool Set To Sell Alberto Aquilani At Cut-Price £10m To Juventus - Report

  

  EPL:  Alberto Aquilani, Liverpool

   

  Liverpool are set to unload midfielder Alberto Aquilani to Juventus, according to a report from The Sun, and could sell him for £10 million.
  
  The midfielder cost a reported £20m to bring to Anfield from Roma in the summer. However, he arrived shortly after undergoing surgery on an ankle injury and struggled to regain full match fitness throughout the campaign.
  
  Aquilani made only 13 starts all season, showing his quality only in flashes. Now it looks as though he will lead something of a summer clear-out at Liverpool, with the future of manager Rafael Benitez still in some doubt.
  
  Fiorentina are also interested in the player, but are not prepared to pay more than £7m for his services, according to a further report in The Daily Mirror.
  
• Rooney9

  12 May 10, 20:26

  rafa is really desperate when alonso left, so he go buy aquilani but he is injury prone and unfit most of the time. so now going to sell him to recoup money to buy another player?

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  12 May 10, 20:27

  Lolx
  
  after spending one season
  
  still need to go
  
  Haiz
  
  Bye

• Rooney9

  12 May 10, 20:34

  should give him another season lar to be fair. rafa wants instant success, but why eh, dun understand this. why he can keep and keep on giving lucas so many many chances eh in the team? beats me

• Just_do_it_lah

  12 May 10, 20:36

  wat a "great" buy... played only a few games.... jialet...

• As romanista2001

  12 May 10, 21:50

  it's amazing how much money Rafa can lose in such a short time....................he should run a bank !

• godchuanz

  12 May 10, 23:29

  Bought for 20mil and spent half the season out injured.  Even when recovered, spends more than half the time on the bench.  And now, looking to sell him away at half-price?  This guy hasn't even been given a real chance yet!

  If this report is true, the nonsense that's happening really proves that something is really wrong with Liverpool at the management level.

• zocoss

  13 May 10, 00:10

  AGENT RUBBISHES AQUILANI EXIT TALK

  

   

   

  Alberto Aquilani's agent has laughed off speculation the Liverpool midfielder will return to Italy in the summer after just one season on Merseyside.

  Reports in England have linked the 25-year-old with a speedy return to Serie A after joining the Reds in the summer from Roma for £20million.

  After a disappointing year at Anfield, some have suggested Rafael Benitez is willing to offload the injury-prone Italian at a cut-price deal, with Juventus and Fiorentina said to be interested.

  But Aquilani's representative Franco Zavaglia has shunned claims his client does not want to leave the Premier League underachievers.

  "A return in Italy? It seems a journalistic shot of the British tabloids," Zavaglia told Tuttomercatoweb.com. "I don't know anything, because Alberto is well in Liverpool.

  "There is talk of Juventus and Fiorentina but the Bianconeri have yet to define the structure of the club before thinking about the market.

  "Equally, Fiorentina has the issue of Cesare Prandelli to resolve.

  "Aquilani has recovered well from his ankle injury and for this reason I think Liverpool won't deprive of him".

  Juve have yet to comment on whether they are interested in signing Aquilani but Diego's agent insists the Brazilian playmaker will not be making way for the Reds' creative midfielder this summer.

  Diego would be the player likely to lose his place in the team if the Old Lady purchase the Liverpool performer after a difficult first camapaign in Italy.

  But the former Werder Bremen star's agent Giacomo Petralito claims he will shine next season and that Lionel Messi would have failed to impress at the Stadio Olympico this term.

  "He doesn't leave Juventus, they're just rumours," he said.

  "Next year will be his year, he will protagonist for Juventus. (Zinedine) Zidane and (Michel) Platini too had problems in their first season.

  "Diego began very well and this means that the qualities are there. Something did not work, but he just needs time, in Italian football is very tactical. And then, this season at Juventus, Messi would also be in trouble".