The former
Italy midfielder reflects on his difficult spell at Anfield a decade ago and why he was never a replacement for Xabi Alonso
In
Football, as in life, there are moments when you just know things could have been so different. So much better. For Alberto Aquilani one such moment was a game that took place a little over 10 years ago. It was going one way but then swung the other and, as it did, his hopes of making it at
Liverpool crumbled into dust.
That, perhaps, is an over-simplification of what took place at Anfield on 29 April 2010. Equally, there is no escaping the feeling that there is a link; that failure for Liverpool led to failure for Aquilani. The Italian is certainly in no doubt about that. As he puts it: “This is the life of a footballer – it can all change with one episode.”