Aquilani

[Carradona]

I'm waiting for the usual suspects to come along and say "Best fans in the world eh?" when someone as much as questions Roy's decisions while letting others call Rafa a wanker and a fucking fool.

 

But Rafa is a wanker and a fucking fool. That's the thing.

[silverlining]

That is the tricky bit with some players.

 

 

Plus when Aquilani gets fit we'll have Aquilani, not Ronaldo.

[Trumo]

Well duh!

 

Not going to comment upon any player, ever, because your not the manager then?

 

No, I'm not going to endorse financial suicide just because I don't like a particular player.

[Carra_is_legend]

Plus when Aquilani gets fit we'll have Aquilani, not Ronaldo.

 

Really?

 

Fucking Rafa.

[Whelan]

No, I'm not going to endorse financial suicide just because I don't like a particular player.

 

Nope you have completely lost me there?

 

Was it when I said we should have signed Ozil and Messi?

 

Or when I suggested we signed Silva and Milner?

 

Maybe it was when I suggested we sign Ashley Young and David Villa?

 

Or maybe it was when I questioned spending upwards of 10 million pounds on players who might not offer us anything!

 

Is that endorsing financial suicide?

[Il Fenomeno]

But Rafa is a wanker and a fucking fool. That's the thing.

 

Why is Rafa a wanker then?

 

Phone Margaret Aspinall or Rhys Jones' parents and ask them "Is Rafa a wanker?"

 

You'd be surprised.

 

He may have had a bad last season at the club but to call him a wanker and a fool on that basis, makes you the fool.

[Carra_is_legend]

Is that endorsing financial suicide?

 

Not sure about a financial suicide but if you carry on like that, there may well be a fucking suicide in TLW. ;)

[goatboy59]

Is it June already?

[Whelan]

Not sure about a financial suicide but if you carry on like that, there may well be a fucking suicide in TLW. ;)

 

Hey, we survived Rafa going and Xabi going and we are still here!

[Captain]

Another thread full of world class spazziness. Red Eagle, in particular, is excelling at monginess and contradiction.

 

It's a good job then that Goldmember Silverlining is in the commons forum keeping the argument going then, eh?

 

Isn't he always ill?

 

Now we're talking. Aquilani is a crock, and has been for years. He should never have been bought, I would sell him to the first decent offer.

 

Not only is he a crock, I'm not that impressed with what I've seen from him so far. He has a good touch, vision and two good feet. But he's very weak defensively, and is far too easily bypassed by opposition players.

[chrisbonnie]

im dumbfounded to the whole Aquilani thing

 

something just isnt right

 

we now have a second manager that wont play him

 

when you think about it, its hard to imagine we paid 20 million for this guy,

 

look at it this way, how many £20 million transfers where there last year?

 

would it be 5 or 6 players perhaps?

 

now, out of them players that fetched £20 million or more, i can guarantee you everyone of them could get into a top 4 club, everyone of those players is a known player to everyone, their more than likely household names, yet for some reason, we spunked £20 million on a player that nobody really knows, and it seems, nobody wants,

 

what im saying is that 99% of players that fetch that kind of price are top marquee players, Aquilani was never that, and never will

 

the whole transfer is just puzzling

 

before somebody has a go at me

 

im not slagging off the player, but more so the transfer, and how we came to spend £20 million on a "relativly unknown player" (tongue in cheek there)

[Captain]

Aquilani is imo Rafa's worst transfer. Absolute shocker.

[andrew78]

Aquilani is imo Rafa's worst transfer. Absolute shocker.

 

Ive said it before and il say it again ,why replace alonso with a totally diferent type of player ,we were set up as a team for years to play through alonso why change it, think thats one of the reasons we were so shit,should of been replaced by a like for like ,he is utter horse shit got to be up there with veron for a worse prem buy

[Captain]

Ive said it before and il say it again ,why replace alonso with a totally diferent type of player ,we were set up as a team for years to play through alonso why change it, [...]

 

Because the players available in his role where nowhere near Alonso's quality?

[Gary Mac Legend]

Because the players available in his role where nowhere near Alonso's quality?

 

 

Javi Martinez would have been a great replacement. Powerful and more mobile, could have developed into an equally as good or better player than Xabi. Now he'll cost you upwards of £15-20 million, around the amount we spent on Aquilani.

 

Genius.

 

Aquilani is the signing that cost him his job.

[waddy78]

Does anyone think cecil's comment on the radio on sunday about Roy wanting to see players before he buys them was a dig at Transfers like Aquilani's(im pretty sure it was a dig at Rafa)when you look over the last 2 seasons we've had Keane,Aquilani at £20 mill or there abouts who basically haven't been used (or used enough depending on your point of view)does are scouting system need an overhaul or just certain scouts need to be looked at closer ?

[LaurenceCrewe]

Aquilani appears to be a player, talented as he may be, to need the whole system to be based around him. Similar to Riquelme but half the talent

 

I'd love nothing more, as everyone would, for him to come good but i'm not sure it will ever happen at our club or in this league even

[Trucker Paddy]

Does anyone think cecil's comment on the radio on sunday about Roy wanting to see players before he buys them was a dig at Transfers like Aquilani's(im pretty sure it was a dig at Rafa)when you look over the last 2 seasons we've had Keane,Aquilani at £20 mill or there abouts who basically haven't been used (or used enough depending on your point of view)does are scouting system need an overhaul or just certain scouts need to be looked at closer ?

 

without a doubt a dig at Rafa he was correct in what he was saying though, Benitez signed Dossena and Aqualani without seeing them himself, from the first half off his debut you could see Dossena was shit, Aqualani the jury is out but if I thought we'd get the fee or 3/4 of it back to. buy a striker i'd take it.

For his transfer dealings after the Torres and Yossi signings he deserved to lose his job for that alone, Aqualani Keane Babel Riera Dossena, not 1 of those players made a positive impact on the team at a cost of over £65m

[Captain]

Javi Martinez would have been a great replacement.

 

GML for Chief Scout.

[Heinze]

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im dumbfounded to the whole Aquilani thing

 

something just isnt right

 

we now have a second manager that wont play him

 

when you think about it, its hard to imagine we paid 20 million for this guy,

 

look at it this way, how many £20 million transfers where there last year?

 

would it be 5 or 6 players perhaps?

 

now, out of them players that fetched £20 million or more, i can guarantee you everyone of them could get into a top 4 club, everyone of those players is a known player to everyone, their more than likely household names, yet for some reason, we spunked £20 million on a player that nobody really knows, and it seems, nobody wants,

 

what im saying is that 99% of players that fetch that kind of price are top marquee players, Aquilani was never that, and never will

 

the whole transfer is just puzzling

 

before somebody has a go at me

 

im not slagging off the player, but more so the transfer, and how we came to spend £20 million on a "relativly unknown player" (tongue in cheek there)

its not puzzling when you realize we didn't pay 20mil up front, addons + money owed from riise.

[HornsOfJericho]

Iits not puzzling when you realize we didn't pay 20mil up front, addons + money owed from riise.

 

We paid 17million up to now. Last major instalment was July.

[Irishlad]

Iits not puzzling when you realize we didn't pay 20mil up front, addons + money owed from riise.

 

Most transfers are done in instalments. That is tired excuse that doesn't wash with me.

 

It's as bad as the people who say that Johnson only cost £10m because they owed us money from the Crouch deal.

[DJLJ]

So, no Aquilani in todays lineup either. What a joke this has been from when he was bought and until now.

[James Dean]

So, no Aquilani in todays lineup either. What a joke this has been from when he was bought and until now.

 

He was ill vs Arsenal, and injured today no?

[DJLJ]

He was ill vs Arsenal, and injured today no?

 

I know he was ill against Arsenal, but haven't seen anything about him being injured today? Where did you see this?