Alberto Aquilani

[SwissBlade]

Looks like Hodgson's sending him on loan.

Surely he fits our player profile?

Overpriced, Injury prone and completely out of form!

What with Bellamy taking a drop to play football, surely there'll be a number of players dropping a division, but are players like this worth a go? (Not Aquilani necessarily, but players of this level)

http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/2010-08-19/hodgson-i-may-send-aquilani-out-loan

 

[Kev Gee]

I'll have Monty any day over him!

 

[SwissBlade]

I'll have Monty any day over him!

So would I Kev Gee, so would I...

Fitness, consistency and Loyalty* are worth a lot more on the pitch than a 20 Million player in the treatment room


*Awaits backlash

 

[SotonBlade]

Surely this is a wind-up. We couldn't even afford to pay 20% of this guys wages!

 

[IOM Blade]

Bellamy's main reason for joining Cardiff was his desire to 'go home'. I may be wrong but i dont think Aquilani is a Sheffield lad?

 

[SwissBlade]

Surely this is a wind-up. We couldn't even afford to pay 20% of this guys wages!

Bellamy's main reason for joining Cardiff was his desire to 'go home'. I may be wrong but i dont think Aquilani is a Sheffield lad?

Not a wind up. Man City have shown that by paying all of Bellamy's wages it makes for a cheap option.

Bellamy's main reason was spun as 'going home' but do you seriously think he'd be at Cardiff if he had a better option? Robbie Keane has played for 20+ clubs but everyone was his 'dream move'

Who's going to be available and who'll drop down a division to play first team football when they miss out on the 25 man squad?

 

[HoodedClaw]

He did have better options available, Spurs for example, Old Harry said he enquired but basically Man City said no as they didnt want him playing for any of thier rivals.

Every move for Robbie Keane was a "Dream Move" think of all the signing on fees

 

[SwissBlade]

He did have better options available, Spurs for example, Old Harry said he enquired but basically Man City said no as they didnt want him playing for any of thier rivals.

So it was out of Bellamy's hands then...

 

[The One]

Bellamy's main reason for joining Cardiff was his desire to 'go home'. I may be wrong but i dont think Aquilani is a Sheffield lad?

I don't totally believe this. Man City weren't going to let him go to a premiership club so to get football he dropped down. Cardiff were the obvious option.

 

[shorehamview]

Bellamy's main reason for joining Cardiff was his desire to 'go home'. I may be wrong but i dont think Aquilani is a Sheffield lad?

Albert Tatlock Aquilani was born in a pigeon loft on the Manor to an Italian father and English mother, but his family returned to Italy to start a whippet farm and open a deli specialising in dripping, fishcakes and pints of bitter shortly after he was born. His father was originally from Tuscany but moved to Sheffield to work in the first Italian restaurant in South Yorkshire, Pizza Coop. His father insisted on changing the lad's name to Alberto despite his mother's wishes that he be named after her favourite Coronation Street character. So a move to United would be a return to his mother's home town. Probably.

 

[Balham]

Not a wind up. Man City have shown that by paying all of Bellamy's wages it makes for a cheap option.

Cardiff are allegedly paying £20,000 per week of Bellamy's wages. While they still owe Motherwell £175,000 which should have been paid in January and no doubt the taxman another £1m.

The Football League is "investigating" the circumstances behind the loan move...which means that it'll get confirmed soon enough.

 

[SwissBlade]

Albert Tatlock Aquilani was born in a pigeon loft on the Manor to an Italian father and English mother, but his family returned to Italy to start a whippet farm and open a deli specialising in dripping, fishcakes and pints of bitter shortly after he was born. His father was originally from Tuscany but moved to Sheffield to work in the first Italian restaurant in South Yorkshire, Pizza Coop. His father insisted on changing the lad's name to Alberto despite his mother's wishes that he be named after her favourite Coronation Street character. So a move to United would be a return to his mother's home town. Probably.

Pure class! Good work SV

 

[norfolkblade]

Cardiff are allegedly paying £20,000 per week of Bellamy's wages. While they still owe Motherwell £175,000 which should have been paid in January and no doubt the taxman another £1m.

The Football League is "investigating" the circumstances behind the loan move...which means that it'll get confirmed soon enough.

Which means that nothing will come of it and Bellamy will single handedly gift Cardiff the title

 

[SwissBlade]

Which means that nothing will come of it and Bellamy will single handedly gift Cardiff the title

Unless of course he does a "Bellamy" and falls out with Cardiff...

Question - Has Bellamy ever left a club on good terms?

 

[norfolkblade]

Maybe we should try to steal Edgar Davids from Palace's grasp...

 

[shorehamview]

Maybe we should try to steal Edgar Davids from Palace's grasp...

We'd shift loads of those 3D glasses if we signed Edgar.

 

[norfolkblade]

we could all turn up in 3d glasses and speedos, hilarious fun