Alberto Aquilani is set to make a return to Liverpool after failing to get a permanent move away from the club.

The midfielder is set to start pre-season training back at Anfield

Alberto Aquilani is set to make a return to Liverpool after failing to get a permanent move away from the club. The midfielder has spent the last two seasons on loan in Serie A to try and get his injury ravaged career back on track following a £20m move from Roma in 2009. But the neither Juventus nor more recently AC Milan wanted to turn season-long loan deals for the 27-year-old into anything longer. "At the moment Aquilani is a Liverpool player and will certainly start pre-season training with them, then we'll see what happens," agent Franco Zavaglia told TMW. "The new manager will decide whether to keep him or not. I don't think he's coming back to Italy and he hasn't expressed any particular preference, but this time I hope Liverpool can tell us in time if he's not part of their plans so we can find him the right club. "Recently, apart from a slight ankle sprain, Aquilani has had no major fitness problems. The real problems were when he had ankle surgery at Liverpool."