http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 for a 8-million EURO fee.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Tom-c35214 Hicks.
His replacement was http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roma-c31603 midfielder, Alberto Aquilani, who was signed for a figure believed to be around the 20-million EURO mark. However, he joined the club with an injury and the recovery period meant that he could not play for Liverpool until half the season had gone by.
Even when he was fit, the Italian midfielder was used sparingly by Benitez and the Anfield faithful never really got to see him play at the levels that had made him such a hot prospect.
The next season he was loaned out by the club, only to be loaned out by the recently sacked Reds’ manager, Kenny Dalglish. His season long loan at AC Milan has now come to a close and the Italian club has the option of signing Aquilani for a 8-million EUROs as was agreed earlier.
However, Milan will not be exercising that right in the hopes of potentially signing the player for less over the summer, after the clause has run its stipulated time period.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Adriano-c3773 Galliani, the AC Milan vice-president, said, “We will not use our option to buy Aquilani before May 31. We will re-open talks with Liverpool in June, though.”
It seems that the club are interested in procuring the services of the Anfield misfit who has found a rich vein of form since leaving the Reds. At the same time, the Reds will not be willing to make any sale until they sort out their vacant manager situation.
The right manager may just persuade Aquilani to give Liverpool one more chance and with names such as Andre Villas-Boas and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fabio-c13152 Capello linked, one can never be too sure.
It is going to be an interesting summer in the transfer market for Liverpool as the owners look to continue the rebuilding process they began at the start of the previous season.
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