Alberto Aquilani

[meijer 09]

It's a fuckin joke situation, we were led to believe he would be playing mid october. After the cameo against arsenal i thought we'd have a potential class player in the side or at least coming off the bench. But with the season going to shit, maybe rafa didnt want him being used as a scapegoat and is making sure he is 100% fit to play. As we've seen all to often in recent games players are breaking down injured due to playing when they aren't fit.

[WaltonRed]

I wouldnt of pissed Alonso off in the 1st place.

[The 5th Benitel]

I'm just asking you who you would have signed? That's all.

 

If is was payed £4m a year to manage a team i'd have a better idea. Do you honestly think it would be impossible for us to get anyone good for that price?

 

He could be brilliant and i obviously hope he is but it's too late for him to help us win anything which makes it a bit pointless. That's if we're still actually a big club.

[Guest Ulysses Everett McGill]

I'm sure lots of clubs signed lots of midfielders this summer. I wonder why no club was ready to compete with us for Aquilani?

 

When you find answer to that question, your question will automatically get answered.

 

Because Eduardo Macia is really good at his job and we had the deal agreed and ready to go months before the actual transaction?

[Carra_is_legend]

Because Eduardo Macia is really good at his job and we had the deal agreed and ready to go months before the actual transaction?

 

So, all this "I wanted Alonso to stay" from our manager is all bollocks then, yeah?

 

Now that you have mentioned Macia, I'm really worried about the prospect of Aquilani.

[Spy Bee]

At least Carradonna had a go at answering. The rest of you are funny. Surely you could name a feasible target. Maybe someone who changed clubs last summer - thereby definitely being available.

 

As for pissing Alonso off - fuck Alonso he underperfromed big time for two seasons and only pulled his finger out when he realised he wasn't untouchable. He's gone. Shit like this happens. United lost Ronaldo, Michael Owen left, Macmanaman left - life goes on. Stop dwelling and look forward!

[El Rojo]

De Rossi, maybe.

 

I'd imagine we would have had to stump up a lot more for him though.

 

I'd love to have seen us go for Cambiasso.

 

Our medical team have a lot to answer for if they told Rafa that he'd be available a couple of weeks into the season.

[Carra_is_legend]

At least Carradonna had a go at answering. The rest of you are funny. Surely you could name a feasible target. Maybe someone who changed clubs last summer - thereby definitely being available.

 

Supporting the manager for spunking £20m on someone who won't play for more than 3 months, when the team badly needed a midfielder, is equally funny. If not more.

 

At any case, what if I said Lee Catermole? You will probably ridicule me for even suggesting his name.

 

As Brownie said earlier, excuses are really the way forward these days.

[El Rojo]

At least Carradonna had a go at answering. The rest of you are funny. Surely you could name a feasible target. Maybe someone who changed clubs last summer - thereby definitely being available.

 

As for pissing Alonso off - fuck Alonso he underperfromed big time for two seasons and only pulled his finger out when he realised he wasn't untouchable. He's gone. Shit like this happens. United lost Ronaldo, Michael Owen left, Macmanaman left - life goes on. Stop dwelling and look forward!

 

Whoops. Careful or you'll have the revisionists who claim he was our best player in every match for the last 27 years down your throat.

[JohnnyH]

At least Carradonna had a go at answering. The rest of you are funny. Surely you could name a feasible target. Maybe someone who changed clubs last summer - thereby definitely being available.

 

As for pissing Alonso off - fuck Alonso he underperfromed big time for two seasons and only pulled his finger out when he realised he wasn't untouchable. He's gone. Shit like this happens. United lost Ronaldo, Michael Owen left, Macmanaman left - life goes on. Stop dwelling and look forward!

 

A-fucking-men. If only some people would open their eyes and see this also. But they wont because they'd lose that lovely pointless stick they get to use to beat Benitez with.

 

We are also not a World Class club. No way could a club that is run like ours is be considered world class anymore.

[The 5th Benitel]

At least Carradonna had a go at answering. The rest of you are funny. Surely you could name a feasible target. Maybe someone who changed clubs last summer - thereby definitely being available.

 

As for pissing Alonso off - fuck Alonso he underperfromed big time for two seasons and only pulled his finger out when he realised he wasn't untouchable. He's gone. Shit like this happens. United lost Ronaldo, Michael Owen left, Macmanaman left - life goes on. Stop dwelling and look forward!

 

Cambiasso was who i wanted at the time but fucks knows how realistic that would have been. The point is, we dont know who is available or how much they're valued at. The people who can find out that kind of thing are paid millions to make decisions based on that knowledge. If they get it wrong people either wonder whether they should continue in the job or cook up all manner of excuses for why it's going wrong.

 

I do agree about Alonso though. He'd have lfet no matter what and no one can blame him for that.

[WaltonRed]

Spy Bee okay here goes -

 

Hamsik

Montolivo

Noble

Parker

Melo

 

This is by the by, the lad might be class, we'll have to see wont we.

[Spy Bee]

Supporting the manager for spunking £20m on someone who won't play for more than 3 months, when the team badly needed a midfielder, is equally funny. If not more.

 

At any case, what if I said Lee Catermole? You will probably ridicule me for even suggesting his name.

 

As Brownie said earlier, excuses are really the way forward these days.

 

I'm going to ignore the Brownie reference, it really does your debate no good to reference someone so one-eyed.

 

I'm not actually supporting the manager. I'm willing to hear both sides of the debate and then make my mind up. The fact that I am even asking questions is jumped upon by people like yourself because you have made your mind up.

 

If it was that easy you would have listed ten players that we could have signed.

[Spy Bee]

Spy Bee okay here goes -

 

Hamsik

Montolivo

Noble

Parker

Melo

 

This is by the by, the lad might be class, we'll have to see wont we.

 

Fair dues. Having not watched too much non-Liverpool footy in the last couple of years I'm not too familiar. Parker? Hmm I think I'd take my chances with Aquilani. Parker is no beter than Lucas.

 

On the others I'll have to jjust accept what you say... did any of them move clubs last summer?

[PaulMcC]

I'm not sure what the argument is here but didn't De Rossi say he wouldn't leave Roma? A bit like Totti.

 

And he's nothing like Aquilani either.

[WaltonRed]

Fair dues. Having not watched too much non-Liverpool footy in the last couple of years I'm not too familiar. Parker? Hmm I think I'd take my chances with Aquilani. Parker is no beter than Lucas.

 

On the others I'll have to jjust accept what you say... did any of them move clubs last summer?

 

Hamsik will move soon and he'll be class. Melo moved to Juventus.

 

Parker is better than Lucas imo.

 

And for whoever asked De Rossi did say he wouldnt leave Roma or atleast Roma said he'd never leave.

[Ted]

Defour, Sneijder, Cambiasso, Senna, Cana.

[The 5th Benitel]

Fair dues. Having not watched too much non-Liverpool footy in the last couple of years I'm not too familiar. Parker? Hmm I think I'd take my chances with Aquilani. Parker is no beter than Lucas.

 

On the others I'll have to jjust accept what you say... did any of them move clubs last summer?

 

It doesn't matter if they moved. As shit as we are now we're still a bigger and better team than 95% of the teams in the world. If they found somone good at all but about 10 teams we should be able to sign them.

[Carra_is_legend]

We could have got Diego and moved Gerrard back to midfield.

 

Or Sneijder.

 

Or Yoann Gourcuff.

 

Happy now Spy Bee?

[WaltonRed]

Defour is a fucking excellent shout.

[Brodie]

Well, when we are drawing at home and trying to chase a win (or hold on for a draw..depends who you are), I would much prefer a fully fit player to come off the bench and be able to launch themselves into a tackle and give their everything, than a half fit player who will pussy out of a challenge and possibly be scared to sprint at the risk of aggrevating the injury.

 

But that's just me maybe.

 

Isnt that what we did yesterday by bringing on Aurelio instead of Aquilani or Riera?

 

Just looking at the players we had fit yesterday, who would you have had on the bench instead of semi fit Benni, Aquilini and Riera?

[Antynwa]

I'm still pissed off we spunked £27 Million on Keane and Dossena, never mind £20 Million on a player who we won't play because he might get injured.

[WaltonRed]

That was Parry Ant, not 'us'

 

Well £20m of it anyway

[The Golden Eel]

Is Aquilani a replacement for Lucas ideally or is he a Gerrard position with Stevie dropping back? Im a bit confused about this - what's his position? Can he slip into our current formation? Anyone struggling to believe Lucas will be dropped?

[PaulMcC]

Do yous watch much Belgian football?