Sturridge

[jan]

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/New-Liverpool-star-Aquilani-denies-having-fascist-sympathies-article106603.html

New Liverpool star Aquilani denies having fascist sympathies


NEW £20million Liverpool signing Alberto Aquilani has denied having fascist sympathies – despite having a statue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in his home.
Sunday Mirror Sport revealed last week that Kop boss Rafa Benitez had agreed a deal with Roma for the 25-year-old midfielder to replace Real Madrid-bound Xabi Alonso.
But Aquilani finds himself faced with an image problem even before he has kicked a ball in a city that has historically always had fierce left-wing political values.
Aquilani and Roma captain Daniele Di Rossi have both been accused of being members of Italy’s far-right party Forza Nuova. Aquilani insists, though, that he is not a political animal.
Yet he has admitted to harbouring an admiration for Mussolini, the dictator who became an ally of Adolf Hitler during the Second World War.
And his views on Italy’s immigration policy could have been penned by Il Duce himself.
In an interview with Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport last year, Aquilani said: “There are too many foreigners in the country – most of the violence and trouble you see is caused by them.
“My uncle is very keen on Mussolini and he gave me some things to do with him.
“I have a statue and a few photographs and portraits of Mussolini at home.
“But as for me, I don’t know anything about politics.”
It’s a view-point that will not endear him to the people of Liverpool. But support for the policies of Mussolini remains strong in Rome – even though Roma are considered to be the left-wing club of the Eternal City.
Roma captain Francesco Totti, who has strong political views himself, has spoken out several times about players at the club leaning towards parties of the far right – although he’s always refused to name individuals.
Aquilani, who has signed a five-year contract at Anfield, will not be available to Benitez for up to two months.
The midfielder is currently recovering from an ankle operation.
Benitez is keen to continue spending the £30m Liverpool banked from the sale of Alonso, but he looks to have lost out to Sunderland in the race for Portsmouth centre-back Sylvain Distin.
And Benitez refuses to pay the £10m asking price that Hull are asking for the talented Michael Turner.

 

[jan]

The scariest part of that article is that we apparently considered signing Michael Turner

 

[Buddha]

...or the £20 million pound new singing Aquilani" bit...

 

[Hansern]

I remember Rafa wanting Turner. He was valued at 10 mill or something. Ridiculous.

 

[Fabio]

Turner had just had a great debut season I am he Pl hadn't he?

 

[Hansern]

Yes?

 

[Red_Water]

Yes?

Rafa also wanted Jones when he went to Sunderland. He turned out to be shit.

 

[Hansern]

According to Andy Heaton a medical is booked for tomorrow.

 

[keniget]

This transfer concerns me. It's a lot of money to be spending and I lack faith in Sturridge.

We need this to work out.

 

[the_khl]

Sneijder on his way out of Inter, would be a pleasant surprise if that medical was meant for him instead of Sturridge.

 

[Vlads Quiff]

Well we can only wait and see.
I am quite happy that we are bringing someone in and hopefully sorted before the window opens.
When played through the middle in regular games he has scored goals in a shit team full if hoofers. He is still young, he can play in more than one position, assuming its around 12m by today's standards that's not bad.
I dont think he will be the only forward, I think there may be a loan signing too, other than Ince

regards

 

[Hansern]

Sneijder is on 220k a week or something

 

[keniget]

Yeah. The time to get him (if it was ever going to happen for us) was when we were half decent and he was leaving Real. Not now.

 

[hmmmmm1]

Sturridge seems like borni mark 2 and massive ego.

That would be close to 25 millions spent by BR on forward players.

Hope it's not our usual trick of signing a couple of players around 10-15 million mark rather than one good player for the same amount.

 

[dmishra]

Why do we have scouts when all we ever seem to sign are players the whole PL knows about?

I mean Sturridge and Ince - that has to be some groundbreaking talent search system we have going on.

 

[Vlads Quiff]

I don't get all the deep gloom about Strurridge, at least give him a fucking chance, and see what else turns up in Santa's sack.

I actually rate him, I think there is some talent in the lad, but he has been fucked about from pillar to post in team full of galactico's.

Other than that who do we sign? Our options are pretty limited, we don't have champions league football to tempt people with, we are not sloshing around in money and the owners are naturally reluctant to let the purse strings slip after being ripped off when Kenny and Comolli were here. It's all very well saying sign this that and the other player, it's a different thing convincing them to come to a provincial city with no European and struggling at that, we have to build and that means just trying to improve on what we have and what we have at the moment is a fucking big vacuum as far as forwards go and we seem to have got used to it as that's the way it's been for too long.

At the moment anyone is better than no one, the January window is not sloshing around with volume

 

[Judge Jules]

"Mucked about" is one way of putting it, old pal, but another is "picked as often as a succession of managers has thought appropriate". Sturridge will now have left two clubs under similar circs.and he's only 23, which suggests the possibility (to put it at its lowest) of an attitude problem. If he arrives I'll get behind him, and I do think he has talent, but IMO the concerns around his signing are legitimate.

 

[hmmmmm1]

Pennant part 2?

Failed at big club once.

 

[Dreambeliever]

He'll be a star here. (Sadly it won't take much to be one)

 

[rubans]

Really not sure about Rogers spending more money, I guess being the manager the board have to back him but personally having spent 25million on 2 players have not delievered, feel another lot of money being wasted here but hope to be prooven wrong...

 

[keniget]

I don't get all the deep gloom about Strurridge, at least give him a fucking chance, and see what else turns up in Santa's sack.

I actually rate him, I think there is some talent in the lad, but he has been fucked about from pillar to post in team full of galactico's.

Other than that who do we sign? Our options are pretty limited, we don't have champions league football to tempt people with, we are not sloshing around in money and the owners are naturally reluctant to let the purse strings slip after being ripped off when Kenny and Comolli were here. It's all very well saying sign this that and the other player, it's a different thing convincing them to come to a provincial city with no European and struggling at that, we have to build and that means just trying to improve on what we have and what we have at the moment is a fucking big vacuum as far as forwards go and we seem to have got used to it as that's the way it's been for too long.

At the moment anyone is better than no one, the January window is not sloshing around with volume

Firstly, Give him a chance? This is a message board and people are more than entitled to air their views about a prospective signing. Having concerns about our transfer policy does not necessarily translate into doom and gloom. He'll get a chance if and when he signs.

Secondly, this notion of "well, who else could we sign" has been shown up time and time again as clubs seem to somehow by miracle sign good players for reasonable prices despite having no CL football to offer either.

Thirdly, anyone is not better than no-one. The last thing we can afford to do is saddle ourselves with more expensive failures, which will impact our ability to buy in future transfer windows.

 

[Wilko7]

Indeed. Borini will be available shortly also.

 

[mr_moo]

Having medical tomorrow according to Aldo. On twitter twatter

 

[mark1975]

Firstly, Give him a chance? This is a message board and people are more than entitled to air their views about a prospective signing. Having concerns about our transfer policy does not necessarily translate into doom and gloom. He'll get a chance if and when he signs.

Secondly, this notion of "well, who else could we sign" has been shown up time and time again as clubs seem to somehow by miracle sign good players for reasonable prices despite having no CL football to offer either.

Thirdly, anyone is not better than no-one. The last thing we can afford to do is saddle ourselves with more expensive failures, which will impact our ability to buy in future transfer windows.

Of course there's doom and gloom, read the responses.

 

[Squiggles]

Not from me. I rate Sturridge and fully support spending £12M on him.

 

[gkmacca]

Really not sure about Rogers spending more money, I guess being the manager the board have to back him but personally having spent 25million on 2 players have not delievered, feel another lot of money being wasted here but hope to be prooven wrong...

I've been fairly impressed with his judgement in the market so far. Allen was a masterstroke, albeit a predictable one given his relationship with the player. Borini is a clever player. Assaidi is promising. Yesil, of course, was superb business.😉 So whatever other misgivings I have, I'm quite happy to give him the benefit of the doubt over this. I don't think any top club would have Sturridge as a top target, but he's fast, versatile and on his day he can be a goal threat. If Rodgers can get into his pants mind and sort out his attitude and lapses in concentration, who knows, he could be very effective. Beggars can't be choosers.

 

[Hansern]

Why do we have scouts when all we ever seem to sign are players the whole PL knows about?

I mean Sturridge and Ince - that has to be some groundbreaking talent search system we have going on.

So we should stop buying from the PL just because we're scouting the rest of the world???!!??

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I've been fairly impressed with his judgement in the market so far. Allen was a masterstroke, albeit a predictable one given his relationship with the player. Borini is a clever player. Assaidi is promising. Yesil, of course, was superb business.😉 So whatever other misgivings I have, I'm quite happy to give him the benefit of the doubt over this. I don't think any top club would have Sturridge as a top target, but he's fast, versatile and on his day he can be a goal threat. If Rodgers can get into his pants mind and sort out his attitude and lapses in concentration, who knows, he could be very effective. Beggars can't be choosers.

I don't think any of Brendan's signings have proven to a resounding success so far. I think they will be but they've not been yet.

 

[Modo]

So we should stop buying from the PL just because we're scouting the rest of the world???!!??

Adam, Downing, Carroll and Hendo, should be enough of a reason to stop scouting senior players in the PL.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

We're not scouting senior players though are we.