We will end up getting him, at a reduced price. Liverpool have been doing brilliantly since the return of King Kenny, why would they upset the balance of their newly successful midfield and general tactical set-up???
I had confused myself in the past thinking that we had paid 4m towards his potential transfer, when the 4m is merely his wages. t'was a free loan, with us paying 100% of his wages...16m, especially in pounds not euros, is too much for a player with obviously good technique, but not a great mentality. We can do better than that, for less money.
His form has dropped miserably since the new year, like most the team...other than DP and Melo.
Quags is the kind of player to bring the best out of aquilani, as he is constantly on the move, slipping into spaces and intelligently seeing/sniffing out opportunities to make runs...without players in your team who do that, with the rest of the offensive unit predictable in their movements, easy to mark, and basically just moving forwards and backwards in the position, like table football players, its pointless having a regista like aquilani.
its true what some people have said in that nobody moves intelligently. So alberto is forced to try short passes constantly, and defend more than attack. which is most definitely not his natural forte.
Bring Quags back, fit and healthy...add another offensive player ( left winger for example), whose movement is quality...and alberto will easily be worth 12m...maybe the full 16m. But at the moment, we have a slowly recuperating quags, and nobody else in the final third with truly intelligent movement.
Its harder for a regista to maintain fine form when the team slumps as a whole, than it is for Melo...Melo ALWAYS has the opportunity to fight, its his natural game, and fighting always needs to be done, in every match. He can throw himself around and be beastly, look brilliant, even if the offence is terrible. Whereas the regista's role becomes basically a defensive midfielder who can pass short..when the players in front of him don't create opportunities for receiving passes.
I had confused myself in the past thinking that we had paid 4m towards his potential transfer, when the 4m is merely his wages. t'was a free loan, with us paying 100% of his wages...16m, especially in pounds not euros, is too much for a player with obviously good technique, but not a great mentality. We can do better than that, for less money.
His form has dropped miserably since the new year, like most the team...other than DP and Melo.
Quags is the kind of player to bring the best out of aquilani, as he is constantly on the move, slipping into spaces and intelligently seeing/sniffing out opportunities to make runs...without players in your team who do that, with the rest of the offensive unit predictable in their movements, easy to mark, and basically just moving forwards and backwards in the position, like table football players, its pointless having a regista like aquilani.
its true what some people have said in that nobody moves intelligently. So alberto is forced to try short passes constantly, and defend more than attack. which is most definitely not his natural forte.
Bring Quags back, fit and healthy...add another offensive player ( left winger for example), whose movement is quality...and alberto will easily be worth 12m...maybe the full 16m. But at the moment, we have a slowly recuperating quags, and nobody else in the final third with truly intelligent movement.
Its harder for a regista to maintain fine form when the team slumps as a whole, than it is for Melo...Melo ALWAYS has the opportunity to fight, its his natural game, and fighting always needs to be done, in every match. He can throw himself around and be beastly, look brilliant, even if the offence is terrible. Whereas the regista's role becomes basically a defensive midfielder who can pass short..when the players in front of him don't create opportunities for receiving passes.
