Liverpool’s Italian midfielder Alberto Aquilani all healed and ready for the new season
Liverpool will be one of the biggest clubs, not just from the clubs in England but, from the world that will be short of world class players in the coming season due to its financial troubles.
Their current situation is brought by the departure of the club’s best players because of their poor performance in the season. Before Rafael Benitez’s departure the Spanish coach was promised enough funds to refurnish his squad but the chairman of Liverpool Football Club, Martin Broughton and the owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett told him later that they had just 5 million pounds to offer. Soon after this Rafael Benitez joined Inter Milan as manager from where Jose Mourinho has left for Real Madrid.
Players in the team had long since been demanding that Anfield required new blood in the team but as the club was in debt of more than 350 million it was not a possibility. Now with appointment of new coach Roy Hodgson who has arrived at the Merseyside from Fulham, leading them to a historic campaign in which they almost won the Europa Cup, he is planning to sign in some new players with a signing of Serbian Milan Jovanovic having already taken place.
Lady Luck clearly had no plans of helping Liverpool as they faced a season marred with bad luck when they drew against mediocre teams and their players got injured and ruled out of matches throughout the season.
Liverpool have their first match against the toughened and strengthened squad of Arsenal in the Premier League and Alberto Aquilani will be available for the encounter. The chief of medicine at the club has told that the Italian Aquilani “has looked very sharp” and is sure he is ready for the field again. Aquilani had injured himself earlier with a bad ankle injury.
The midfielder of the Reds, Alberto Aquilani had his initial season at the Liverpool destroyed when he got himself out early because of a severe ankle injury but the head of medicine Anfield has told that he thinks the player is ready for action and will be seen a lot more than the previous season running on the pitch.
The 26 year old Italian was on the waiting list to play for more than two months for Liverpool after he was transferred from Roma to the Reds with a 20 million pounds move. He has told that he is attending the pre seasonal training sessions and hopes that he will convince Peter Brukner, the chief of medicine, that he is fit as a fiddle for the new season.
Brukner has told while talking to media, “Alberto's ankle, which was a problem last year, is now 100% healed. He has been training and has looked very sharp. He'll have to keep working on his injury prevention programme and if he does, I'm sure the supporters will see the best of him because last season was very frustrating for him injury-wise”.
Brukner is one busy man at Anfield and his new mission will be to assess the injury of the world class Fernando Torres. Torres managed to tear up his thigh muscles in the final in South Africa during the last moments of the game. He later came back with the Spanish squad to Madrid where Liverpool’s medical staff is travelling to catch up with him.
Brukner has told that before the start of the new season he, in general, is happy with the physical condition of the players and has relayed that the soon enough he will have examined the whole squad. The delay in the process so far had been caused by the World Cup but now that it was over and about a little more than a month was left in the beginning of the season, he hoped to see all his players.
Brukner expressed on the issue, “Staggering pre-season presents a challenge. I'm guessing that the World Cup guys will be pretty fit anyway. You don't lose a lot in three weeks and they've all been in contact with us to speak about their programme over that period”.
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