KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Aquilani's match fitness

don't blame it on the pitch....we all know that is not the reason...

unused sub against city on a perfect pitch. the same against lyon at stade de gerlande...

i understand that rafa wants to be careful but if a player is on the bench it means that he's fit enough to play for more than 30 seconds....

kopswede stop ya friggin bitchin and be patient ,you sound like my woman when shes got her rags, hes been signed for 5years buddy, hes played bugger all games in 4years ,hes barely been FIT in his life , hes never had his injuries looked after properly. Only the staff , physios and rafa know what he can and cant do at this present time, NOT YOU or any other whingeing [oops] idiot on here , im sick to death of everyone crying because aquilani isnt playing 90mins yet. Would u prefer for him to jump in and get injured and be out for another 6months????? everyone crawl back into your shell and let the professionals eg staff, physios and rafa figure out when best to introduce him fully!!

funny that i saw you agreeing with everything dunk wrote earlier today, yet i see you calling me all different things right now....im not even going to comment more about that..

but i can say this, you're totaly right about one thing. he has barely been fit in his whole life! nice job by the scouting department dont you think? im not claiming to be a physio but i have every right to be annoyed by the situation when 4-8 weeks have become over 14 weeks. and i do think it's common sense that if the guy has been fit enough to sit on the bench for a month, then he's ready to play more than some minutes here and there...

i understand what a late substitution is and what its purpose is. that's not the question here. rafa is sending out mixed signals. one day he says aqui is fit and needs match fitness, and then he includes him in the squad. then he says he's not ready yet (like he did say after yesterdays game)...he's got to make up his mind.

for the last time, if a player is fit you include him in the squad. if a player is not fit then you leave him out. so in this situation it would have been way better to give some of our youngsters the chance to travel with the squad to hungary...

yea ive no probif he's not ready, but stop tellin us he is then. gettin our hopes up. were excited (and a bit desperate) and we wanna see our new player, nothing wrong wih that.

exactly

i think benitez would play him next yr i really dont know what he is upto?

give it time and Aquilani will moan that he isn't playing and we'll all be slagging him off because of a poor attitude.i'm joking really but you never know..

We we're defending a one nil lead. The idea of replacing a defensive midfielder with a more attacking one makes no sense. Perhaps that's the reason we didn't see him last night?

defending a 1-0 lead while playing a team that poor shows how far backwards we have gone this year. the scored more cl goals than us aswell!