Aquilani wanted to leave, he left.

Both Aquilani and Meireles are attacking midfielders! We need a defensive midfielder, Aquilani doesn't want to play for us, while Meireles has been nothing special for Chelsea!

A centre midfielder is a centre midfielder and Aquilani is versatile in the sense he can fill in for attacking and defending roles. He only wants to leave because we've treated him badly we didn't give him the time like we did for Lucas.

Regardless of why he wanted to leave, he wanted to leave, therefore how can it possibly be a mistake to let him leave?

The mistake would be to force an unhappy player to stay and ruin the excellent morale we have in the camp at the moment.

Its dumb logic to say because we have an injury to a midfielder it means we were wrong to let another midfielder leave. Every club has injuries and should expect them.

We would have expected them when we let Mereiles and Aquilani leave, we did so because they did not want to stay.

My point is if we had not treated him badly in the first place he would not have wanted to leave at least not straight away. We saw in pre season how effective he was it's a shame we did not play him more than he did I don't think he got over 20 games for us.

He wanted to leave. Move on.

Dont start with the Aqua talk.

I liked Aquilani but I do wish some fans would get over his departure. He didn't want to be at Anfield and got his wish and is now in Italy. Good player he may be, but he is completely ill suited operating as the teams defensive option in midfield. He's a player in the Alonso/Adam mould not a Lucas/Mascherano type player.

Aggers

Just like last night Paisley, must be the time if day people who miss Aqua log on!

Liverpool's style of play relies heavily on off-the-ball tempo and although Aqua can dictate play really well he offers near nothing in this department, would happily still have him here though

comment by Aggers Right Elbow (U3402)
posted 5 minutes ago
Just like last night Paisley, must be the time if day people who miss Aqua log on!
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I don't think that's the aim of this article to be honest. I'll suspected other since I seen his account, so far have been proved right. Let's see.

I just also get frustated at our response to player's saying they want to leave sometimes.

Just look at Modric. Tottenham refuse £40 mill for Chelsea despite begs and pleas to leave and now they're flying. Merieles hands in a request and he leaves for essentially what we paid for him.

We seem to have a 'If you whine, you can go' policy which is all good but it let's other players have the mentality when they leave plus it means we miss out on big bucks. I reckon we could've got £20 mill for Merieles.

I'm not Aquilani's biggest fan but I feel Liverpool can be very quick to judge and respond rashly.

Modric did a bit of moaning in the press, but he doesn't strike me as the type who would sulk at the club, that is why Spurs kept him.

If he had thrown his dummy out at the training ground and ruined training, Spurs wouldn't have messed about and he would be a Chelsea player. He is better than that, so he stayed.

I am not sure Mereiles (see his celebration against Arsenal), is that good a professional.

Dunno about Aquilani, but his reason to leave was not money like Mereiles, Modric.

comment by Aggers Right Elbow (U3402)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago

Dont start with the Aqua talk.




Aggers, am I getting a weird sense of Dejavu? Or did I comment something along the lines of "" more a less around this time yesterday when you posted the exact coment about Aqua?

LOLOL

I think Adam will have to fill Lucas' position with Hendo playing Centre Mid maestro.
While hes been playing really well lateley, Adam can be lazy and you really need a terrier in the DM role. Maybe Spearing but his passing at times is not good.
Maybe KK can bring in an out-of-favour DM on a pay-as-you-play contract until the summer ????