I do not understand how Alberto Aquilani can be labelled a flop.
He might well turn out to be and yes He has struggled with injuries
yes but how can anyone label a player who has hardly played 90
minutes in most of the 18 matches he has played in all competitions
all season? And in a really underperforming Liverpool team this
year, whenever Alberto Aquilani played, there are good reviews of
brilliance coming through. Whether he is a flop or success can only
be determined when he is given a full season to prove himself. But
then, people are just finding it easy to target Liverpool's players
for criticism anyway.
Well I think it's because the big sum of fee from Pool's
standard and the expection of being Alonso's
replacement and being one of the club's record
signing ($20m) along with Keane and Torres, people natural expected
more from him. But his contribution was really very
minimum...
And by Nov / Dec , he already recovered
and was fit to start the match against
Fiorentina and played almost 70mins... Even his own father came out
to say he was fit from then on but unsure why he isn't
selected most of the time or given more playing time for the
next few months...
So basically, he was fit from Dec onwards but spent most of his
time either sitting on the bench or not even on the sub list...
Perhaps Rafa saw otherwise and thought he wasn't good
enough for the tough premier league yet? Or he just don't get along
with Rafa as well... lol.
So if base on last season alone, it isn't wrong to say he is a
big money flop... But he may have a good second year who knows...
But that is if he stays.
