i gotta to admit, this conversation is quite hilarious.
anyway let us shed some light on the matter, shall we?
aquilani's liverpool carreer is officially over. period.
liverpool has put aquilani on the market. that's the reason why he didn't play last week (no stomach bugs or anything; the club didn't wanna line him up in a europa league fixture, coz that would have made him undeployable by any other club - say, juventus - in europa league for this season).
the only club which showed interest was juve. but marotta (juventus team director) made it very clear that juve wouldn't have bought aquilani unless liverpool would have agreed on sending him on free loan in torino first, for 1 year (to test the player's health conditions for an entire season).
so liverpool agreed with juventus on a 1 season free loan. aquilani's wage will be almost entirely paid by juve, and the agreement contains a buyout clause for 16 millions euros.
if by the end of the season aquilani will have proven himself useful, then juve will just pay those 16 millions and goodbye (liverpool won't have the first word pipa, as that's the point of an option clause; the seller gaves up his right to refuse the offer and lets the buyer decide wheter to buy or not).
otherwise aquilani will be back at liverpool.... but certainly for not more than 1 or 2 months... coz at that point liverpool is just gonna try to sell him again (for much less than 16 millions of course).
the only reason why liverpool hasn't sold alberto already in this transfer window is because right now, alberto has no market at all.... no one would pay, even only those 16 millions. so they hope he'll manage to stay fit for a season, in order to get those 16 millions from juve.
all those info about the aquilani deal come from the same italian journalist who wrote about the juve-aquilani deal 1 week ago (when nobody knew about the deal). everything he wrote turned out to be 100% correct so far, so he clearely had a tip-off from the inside.
and that's concerning the facts of the deal. here are my 2 cents on the whole thing, if u're interested in it.
one case or another, aquilani is not gonna play again for liverpool. the options are not "juve signs him or he's back in liverpool". the options are "juve signs him, or we're gonna have to find another buyer (for even less than 16 millions at that point of course).
he was bought 1 season ago. he was kept on the sidelines by his coach even when he was actually healthy again.....i think u all remember all those times when rafa put aquilani in the game when there were 5, 6 minutes to the final whisthle, don't u? if a player is not healthy, u don't make him play at all... and if he's coming from an injury and u want to slowly "ease him" into the game again, helping him find his form again, then u give him 30, 45 minutes of playtime, not 4, 5 minutes. i really don't know what rafa was trying to prove in those situations, but, although i have huge respect for rafa, that was just ridiculous coaching by him.
now liverpool is desperately trying to offload him, even though everyone knows how stupid it is to sell a player after a single disappointing season, especially if u paid 20 millions for him.... i mean, come on, even juventus isn't selling melo this summer, coz they know felipe has no market and a sale now would be just "bad management"... and we're talking about melo, a player who, unlike aquilani, has played disgracefully for an entire season... a player who has been fit for the entire season, and yet didn't produce a single decent performance in one year of football!!!
so do u think that after being treated like this, alberto is gonna play for liverpool again? he's not. u might say, "hey he has a contract, so if juve doesn't sign him at the end of the season, he's bound to stay with us"...... but the club itself doesn't want him in liverpool.... so as i wrote above, aquilani's carreer at liverpool is officially over.
as i said on this very same thread one year ago, it wasn't a smart move to sign aquilani. not that aquilani is not good enough (the rest of the liverpool team was not good enough to play aquilani's game, if anything), but because he was not the kind of midfielder liverpool needed after xabi's departure.
but if signing him for 20 millions (knowing his injury record) wasn't really a smart move, giving juve a free shot at him, just hoping they'll eventually give u those 16 millions (when liverpool still has to pay the last 5 millions installment to roma), it's just laughable.
that beats juve spending 25 millions for melo, it beats palermo selling kjaer for just 14 millions euros. i'd say that's on par with robbie keane's double transfer and inter's quaresma deal as the stupidest market move in recent years.
