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There's no doubt about it, Steven Gerrard is a class player for club and country. His form is
consistently excellent and he has grabbed Liverpool by the scruff of the neck to win matches which
seemed lost on countless occasions. But perhaps, this is a season too far for the midfield maestro
amid concerns his recent fitness and form for Liverpool.
Rafa looking to bring talented Frenchman to Anfield.
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A number of Premier League clubs have been alerted by the much publicized fall-out
between Jeremy Menez and his manager Claudio Ranieri at Roma.
Liverpool legend Jan Molby has launched a scathing attack on the club's underperforming stars,
stating that big-name players, such as Steven Gerrard and new signing Alberto Aquilani, need to
step up their game if the Reds are to achieve the top-four Premier League finish promised by their
manager Rafael Benitez.
Former Liverpool star Jan Molby said today that the club's on and off-the-pitch problems was
putting off top stars from joining Rafael Benitez's team.
Speaking to the Liverpool FC Supporters' Club New York through their MP Red Podcast, the
46-year-old - who played 281 times for the Reds between 1984 and 1996 - said that fans could no
longer expect the world's star players to want to play for Liverpool.
Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard claims £20 million Alberto Aquilani is just like departed
midfield lynchpin Xabi Alonso.
The Italy international has failed to hit the heights manager Rafa Benitez had hoped since his
arrival from Roma - but the opening months of the midfielder's tenure at Anfield has been blighted
by an ankle injury.
School's closed and the Reds are up to no good He may be the new kid on the block, but Alberto
Aquilani is not going out of his way to make a good impression on his Liverpool team-mates. In
fact, he definitely seems to have mischief in mind. It seems that even in the cut-and-thrust world
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The next four months are the biggest in Liverpool's history.
The implications if we don't get into the Champions League are massive.
If we don't finish in the top four it will be very difficult to attract top players and we might
struggle to hold on to our key stars.
This really is a pivotal time for the club.
Liverpool midfielder Alberto Aquilani midfielder insists that he is feeling "reborn" after
recovering from a long-term injury, and that he intends to help the Reds pick up the pieces of a
shattered season.
The Merseyside giants have endured several false dawns, with the injury-plagued Italian making only
five Premier League appearances so far following his big-money switch from Roma.
Liverpool midfielder Alberto Aquilani has called on his team-mates not to dwell on the injuries to
Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard.
Rafa Benitez's star duo face a combined eight weeks' absence as Liverpool's season of woe continues
to plumb new depths, with Saturday's opponents Stoke preparing to add to it.
An underachieving Liverpool team will face super-confident Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield this
Wednesday. A match that should see Maxi Rodriquez and Alberto Aquilani in the starting lineup. But
then again, who can read Rafa's mind? After a great last season, Liverpool were looking to go one
better than second and finally be Premiership champions.
Alberto Aquilani's agent has laughed off claims the Liverpool midfielder could return to Seria A
with Juventus this January.
The Italian arrived as a £20million replacement for Xabi Alonso, who left for Real Madrid, from
Roma last summer but has failed to live up to expectations at Anfield.
Liverpool forward Ryan Babel comes back into contention for a place in the squad to face Tottenham
after apologising to manager Rafael Benitez.
The Holland international accepted his mistake over remarks made on Twitter and Benitez has now
deemed the matter closed.
Striker Fernando Torres (knee) and midfielders Steven Gerrard (hamstring) and Yossi Benayoun (rib)
are all out.
Patience is a virtue sorely lacking in modern football and that is something Alberto Aquilani will
have discovered this week.
Despite the fact he is just starting to find his feet after enduring a 12-month spell that was
decimated by injury and included the upheaval of moving to another country, he is being branded a
flop two Premier League starts into his Liverpool career.
Rafa Benitez has named his side to face Reading in the FA Cup replay at Anfield tonight, with
Alberto Aquilani again in the starting line up. The team in full is: Cavalieri, Degen, Carragher,
Agger, Insua, Aquilani, Lucas, Benayoun, Kuyt, Gerrard, Torres. Subs: Aurelio, Babel, Ngog,
Spearing, Skrtel, Gulacsi, Pacheco.
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Neanche Alberto Aquilani, centrocampista ex Roma, riesce a portare fortuna a questo Liverpool che
continua a cavalcare l'onda della crisi di fine 2009. Un altro risultato deludente arriva in queste
ore, in casa dell'undici di Benitez, eliminato dalla FA Cup dal Reading, compagine di Seconda
Divisione inglese.
For a league which draws snores and a national teams which draws derision, those Italians must be
doing something right. Everywhere you look in England, they just keep popping up. From all the way
at the tippety-top of the English national team down to the Championship, there's an Italian to be
found.
Rafael Benitez was denied a victory to lift the intense pressure on him when Stoke grabbed a
last-ditch equaliser at the Britannia Stadium.
It was never pretty, but this much-derided Liverpool outfit stood up to be counted in a physical
showdown.
And they went ahead when Greek defender Sotirios Kyrgiakos scrambled home his first goal for the
club early in the second period of a bitterly contested battle.
According to Sky Sports News, Liverpool midfielder Alberto
Aquilani is not going to leave the club and return to the Seria A. His agent
Franco Zavaglia told laroma24.it,
"There aren't possibilities that Aquilani will go back to Italy in January .
Tottenham vs Liverpool
Premier League
White Hart Lane, London
Sunday 28th November 2010
16:00 BST
To borrow the slightly derisory words of Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson,
Tottenham are a 'top side' and no longer the 'mugs' that they once were, with a bounding start to
the season already seeing them dispatch of reigning European champions Inter, bitter local rivals
Arsenal and (most consumately of all) Champions League also-rans Werder Bremen with their patented
brand of gung-ho bombardiering.
Liverpool midfielder Alberto Aquilani has revealed that he has found the move from Serie A to the
Premier League a taxing ordeal but stressed that he is determined to start playing more regularly
and at the level which earned him a £20 million move to Anfield.
Aquilani joined the Reds in the summer as a direct replacement for Xabi Alonso but spent much of
the first half of the season trying to regain fitness and making cameo appearances from the
substitute's bench.
By Ollie Irish
Rafa Benitez called this a "fair result" it's not something you hear him say often. But after
the encouraging win over Spurs, this was a fairly turgid performance by Liverpool against a
spirited Wolves side. Still, a point away from home in the Prem isn't such a terrible result.
Liverpool midfielder Damien Plessis could be set for a loan switch to Serie A strugglers Lazio,
Goal.com UK understands.
The 21-year-old midfielder has been on the fringes of the Reds' first team for the past three
seasons, making eight appearances in that time, and manager Rafael Benitez revealed yesterday that
an Italian club had made an enquiry about signing Plessis on loan.
Cutting through the exotic monikers of Premier League imports so you can judge the player, not the
name This is arguably the most mistranslated name in Premier League. Waterline? Watercarrier?
Watermelon? No, it is eagle-related. Either that or your ancestors used to live in the town of
L'Aquila (which means The Eagle in any case).
Boots do not come any bigger to fill: if Alberto Aquilani accepted mission impossible last summer,
how must Sotirios Kyrgiakos have felt upon touching down at Anfield?
As the man bought to replace Xabi Alonso, a huge crowd favourite and Liverpool's play-maker
supreme, Aquilani was always destined to be subjected to a succession of unfavourable and unhelpful
comparisons with his predecessor.
A first-half strike from Dirk Kuyt and an own goal from Kevin Davies saw Liverpool maintain their
top four push with a 2-0 victory over Bolton on Saturday afternoon.
The Dutchman's close range finish eight minutes before the interval put the Reds in the driving
seat before Emiliano Insua's deflected shot sealed the points to stretch our unbeaten run in the
Barclays Premier League to six matches.
