Would you send Aquilani out on loan?

[RafaLaBamba]

Simple question....

[DJLJ]

No sell him option?

[RedinSweden]

Where is the "We should sell him" option? I don't see the point of him going out on loan, but it isn't because I think we need him.

[Hermes]

Why pay the wages of somebody who is rarely fit and doesn't get picked when he is fit? If we sold him now we'd be lucky to get a third of his fee.

[Guest LFD]

I'd send him on loan.

 

His stock is currently low, he needs games and if he goes to Italy does well his value should appreciate.

[t1971]

I would sell him for a decent fee if we could get one. And Roy was allowed to spend that fee on a replacement. Sending him out on loan isnt a good idea.

[05 Milan]

Pointless to loan him out.

[stevienando]

I wouldn't sell him. I'm convinced that he will come good. He's a fantastic footballer.

[Red Mist]

I wouldn't sell him. I'm convinced that he will come good. He's a fantastic footballer.

Where is the evidence of that? Not sure where this belief in Aquilani comes from. The guy has been an expensive disaster and we can only hope an Italian club comes in for him, hopefully offering somewhere near the ridiculous amount we spent on him. Very unlikely to happen though. We'd be lucky to get £10M for him.

[Red-Ed]

Assuming the loan involves his waging being payed, then yes I would. He needs to toughen up and show he can play for a full season - it'll do him good.

 

The alternative is a game here and there which will do him no favours and do us no favours.

[King Emlyn]

Need a really don't care option.

[piscinin]

Some guy on Rawk called this yesterday / day before. He also claims Lucas is on the way out!

[shaunstrudwick]

No sell him option?

 

this

 

apparently Juve are looking to make a bid...

[Original202]

Loaning him out won't benefit us in terms of him coming back a better player. I'd loan him out as a last resort to get him off the wage bill, but if he isn't in the manager's plans then we should just cut our losses and sell him.

 

We could loan him out and he could have a great season followed by a £15m bid next summer. But he could stink the place out and we might not get any decent offers at all.

 

If he's not wanted, just sell him now.

[zico]

Sell him or play him, it's that simple....

[HornsOfJericho]

He's obviously mentally fragile at the moment and Roy doesn't think it's wise to play him when his minds not on the game completely.

 

His thought process is probably send him back to Italy in surroundings where he is familiar and let him rebuild his confidence from there.

 

Then take another look in 6/12 months depending on the loan length.

[The Chef]

Yeah......cause we're overloaded in midfield

[Vivaldo]

Sell him

[Guest PurpleNose]

No. He's 25.

 

Sell, or play.

[Red Nick]

Pleasantly surprised with the outcome of this poll

 

Wonder if it would have been different had Rafa wanted to send him out on loan.

 

Nice to see people thinking for themselves

[Guest TK-421]

I'd keep him. If I was Roy I'd try and keep as many players as possible because signing new ones is a fucking nightmare.

[The Dude Abides]

Anyone that thinks he's being loaned out to get fit is a bit thick. He'll go out on loan and will never play for Liverpool again.

 

I'm not overly arsed, has never looked liked he's fancied it. I'm more annoyed that what it represents....lose a "player", get in a clogger.

[23CARRAGOLD]

Not quite a Paul Stewart level flop, but a massive waste of money the way his Liverpool career is going at the moment if Roys decided hes out the door.

 

Some people say he only cost £5mill and installments, still tryna make excuses. Fact is we are tied to paying Roma £17mill + guaranteed. No matter what, we will pay at least that for this player and that is one of the biggest fuck ups we've seen as a club. Shocking in the current climate.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I wouldn't send the cross eyed goon out to get the fucking Echo, useless he is.

[razor]

I'm one of the few who think she's not a very good player. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say maybe it's the pace and physical nature of the English game.

 

As we've got 20 million tied up in him, we should try to unlock the funds and use it wisely. Loaning him out to Italy where he is rated (and may well play well again) makes good sense to me. We need to get as much money as possible and buy somebody good (well, better, and let's face it we could get somebody better for half the price). We got stung.

 

I'd love to be wrong, of course. But I don't think I am.