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I can't believe people would want him gone for as little as £9m. We'd still get that if we gave him a season to prove himself. And yes he's not a CM but formations are never rigid these days so could play as an advanced CM in a 442.
Aquilani is just the type of player we need wether for the first 11 or the bench. Strength in depth! I would be looking else where for players to sell before selling him especially for the amounts being mentioned. And he'll never be competing with Maxi for the wing. then he'll never be in the team. the money we could get for him is much more useful to us than aquilani himself, we need a winger.
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do we really need cole, maxi, maiereles and aquilani? andwhere does he fit in? he is never a CM or a winger carroll cant play up front on his own so playing aquilani off of carroll is a rubbish idea. he just doesnt fit in if we can get 9 million for him id take it. lets get rid of cole and maxi then. i'd rather keep aqui. and aqui is the type of player who's able to play in the "gerrard role" behind the striker.
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House what is our bench going to look like? Shelvey polsen, ngog all over again? We all knnow how that turns out. If they cant fit in the first 11 have them in the squad for a matchday. I am sure they can make more contributions then those fringe players. exactly. a few injuries and then we're standing there again with a squad not good enough.
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We do need a winger but selling him isn't the way to pay for it. There are plenty of others that would contribute nothing to the season that should go first. Add them all up and you'll probably get more than just selling Aqua. At least that way, we keep a top quality player that can give something to the team when played. I personally think we shouldn't have signed Adam and spent that money else where.
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i bring up maxi because he will be competing with aquilani for a place on one of the wings
is that a joke? If not it shows how little you know about Aqualni because he is definitely not a winger, never has been and never will be. He's a central midfielder
'he'll also be competing with downing, henderson, meireles, cole and kuyt, hence why we have have a to sell a couple of them 6 players competing 2 positions isn't good, we may occasionally play 4231 witch would make another place in the team but more often than not we'll be playing 442 so no room for all these attacking mids who aren't CMs or wingers. tbh i dont care what 2 get sold but we cant have that many similar players. we need another winger
Good - it's healthy to have players like him, Meireles, Adam and Henderson battling it out in a place for midfield It shows this is an area where our squad does have strength and depth which you need to compete for the league title An extra player on the flanks might be an idea but with the likes of Downing, Maxi, Kuyt, Henderson and presuming Joe Cole doesn't go, we're more or less covered And I wouldn't chose to play 4-4-2 - it's too old fashioned a formation
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i bring up maxi because he will be competing with aquilani for a place on one of the wings
is that a joke? If not it shows how little you know about Aqualni because he is definitely not a winger, never has been and never will be. He's a central midfielder
'he'll also be competing with downing, henderson, meireles, cole and kuyt, hence why we have have a to sell a couple of them 6 players competing 2 positions isn't good, we may occasionally play 4231 witch would make another place in the team but more often than not we'll be playing 442 so no room for all these attacking mids who aren't CMs or wingers. tbh i dont care what 2 get sold but we cant have that many similar players. we need another winger
Good - it's healthy to have players like him, Meireles, Adam and Henderson battling it out in a place for midfield It shows this is an area where our squad does have strength and depth which you need to compete for the league title An extra player on the flanks might be an idea but with the likes of Downing, Maxi, Kuyt, Henderson and presuming Joe Cole doesn't go, we're more or less covered And I wouldn't chose to play 4-4-2 - it's too old fashioned a formation i never said aquilani is a winger nor are henderson, meireles, kuyt and maxi but i bet all of those players play on the right next season (aquilani won't because thankfully he'll be in italy having another average season) aquilani could never play as a CM in a 2 specially in the PL maybe in a diamond with a very defensive partner doing all his work and defending for him. it's not healthy to have; downing, meireles, henderson, gerrard, adam, spearing, shelvey, cole, maxi, aquilani, kuyt, lucas and poulsen (i know we except to sell to poulsen but as of right now he is still an lfc player) 13 players all competing for at most 5 positions isn't healthy at all especially when so many of them are so similar, if we're 0-0 against stoke with 20 minutes to go, taking meireles off and bringing on aquilani wont make any difference really same with cole and maxi, henderson and meireles. and only 1 winger it doesnt make sense at all to keep all of cole, maxi, aquilani and meireles. id happily see us selling aquilani (i'd keep meireles because he's more versatile) and either cole or maxi and signing someone like matt jarvis, he'd be much more useful to us 442 isn't old fashioned man utd won the league playing 442. it's not the right formation for the big european games (sadly we don't have to worry about that) it fits best with our squad. with everyone fit what formation would you play?
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You said: “i bring up maxi because he will be competing with Aquilani for a place on one of the wing(s)”. He won’t
Aquilani has spent most of his career playing in CM so saying he can’t play there again just raises questions as to how much you know about the player – and based on everything you’ve said that’s clearly not a great deal
And Maxi is a winger – one that can play on either flank. He has played a more central attacking role but throughout his time at liverpoool he’s been on the flanks
How can it not be healthy having good players competing against each other for a place in the first 11? That’s exactly what we need and what we’ve lacked for the last 5-6 years
And if we manage to offload the likes of Poulsen, Insua, N’Gog and Jones we can strengthen our defence too
Presuming the Jose Enrique rumour is true, that only leads a centre back to go – although it will have to be someone like Dann or Cahill as Srtel and Kryarkis make waay too many clumsy mistakes
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You said: “i bring up maxi because he will be competing with Aquilani for a place on one of the wing(s)”. He won’t
Aquilani has spent most of his career playing in CM so saying he can’t play there again just raises questions as to how much you know about the player – and based on everything you’ve said that’s clearly not a great deal
And Maxi is a winger – one that can play on either flank. He has played a more central attacking role but throughout his time at liverpoool he’s been on the flanks
How can it not be healthy having good players competing against each other for a place in the first 11? That’s exactly what we need and what we’ve lacked for the last 5-6 years
And if we manage to offload the likes of Poulsen, Insua, N’Gog and Jones we can strengthen our defence too
Presuming the Jose Enrique rumour is true, that only leads a centre back to go – although it will have to be someone like Dann or Cahill as Srtel and Kryarkis make waay too many clumsy mistakes
Spot f'ing on. If nothing else we have a wondefully creative CM to come off the bench. How can that competition possibly be bad for the team!
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Liverpool is not involved in any European football this season , this season at least... Well we don't know that quite yet, do we? Birmingham are in dire straits so we might be handed a place in Europa League if they don't get their act together real soonish!
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and aqui is the type of player who's able to play in the "gerrard role" behind the striker. We don't have that role in our team line up anymore - at least when Carroll's playing, since he can't play as a lone striker. That leaves us with a minimum of 2 strikers on the pitch at the same time. Either that would mean playing 4-4-2 or 4-4-3!
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