Agent: Aquilani will join

The 26-year-old failed to settle in at Anfield after moving to the Reds in 2009, but has shone since returning to Serie A on a season-long loan deal with Juventus.

And the midfielder's agent Franco Zavaglia has claimed that Juve are "absolutely determined" to take up the option to sign the player on a permanent deal in the next transfer window.

"Juventus and Liverpool have established an agreement for the player," Zavaglia told Radio-Mercato.

"The Bianconeri's leadership is absolutely determined to retain the player at the end of the season and they have repeated it several times.

"Everything that has been said recently about Aquilani is just assumptions. Liverpool will not discount the player and he will only be sold on the predetermined basis.

"If Juventus will not retain him, he returns to Liverpool even if the player wants to play in Italy, but I don't think in Italy there are another clubs other than Juventus which can take him."