Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez insists Alberto Aquilani will prove to be an ideal replacement for the departed Xabi Alonso.
With Alonso now at Real Madrid, the 25-year-old Italian international has been brought in by Benitez from Roma as replacement, and the
Liverpool boss was happy enough to snare his man even with an ankle injury.
Benitez told the Daily Mirror: "If Aquilani was in a normal market he would cost £25-30million, but because of the operation he had on his ankle he was a bit cheaper.
“We have to wait for a month for him to be fit, but he is a player we are signing for five years, not for five matches.
"He had a bad tackle and an operation and that's normal he missed matches. It would have been the same with
Fernando Torres or
Steven Gerrard. That is why I don't think his signing is a gamble.
"I was talking with a lot of people in Italy and people are saying it is a fantastic signing.
"Alberto is now under the control of our medical staff because he had been going to different people. He has the quality to settle down well in England.”
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