#INSERT type:image caption:Alberto Aquilani in action for his most recent club, Fiorentina. END#
Former Liverpool midfielder Alberto Aquilani, currently without a club, has told La Gazzetta dello Sport he believes he could still be part of Italy's squad for Euro 2016.
Aquilani, 30, a free agent after leaving Fiorentina at the end of last month, insisted he was ready to take up a new challenge -- but that had to be with the right club.
"I need a club who believe in me, get me involved and give me satisfaction," he told the paper.
"I'm convinced that if I find the right situation, I still could play my way into contention for Euro 2016. [Italy coach Antonio] Conte and I have a mutual respect, so why shouldn't I still believe this?"
Aquilani said he had "spoken with several clubs" but would "prefer to wait and let somebody convince me fully."
And he added: "I'm serene and have no anxiety. I don't need a lucrative contract to be happy. I'd rather wait until the right offer that I truly believe in comes along."
He said he had no regrets about his decision to move to Liverpool from Roma in 2009, explaining: "I would do it all over again.
"I'd had a difficult year with Roma and had been out a long time injured. If I could go back in time, maybe I would have done things a little differently contractually.
He said it had been "a mistake" to then join Juventus on loan "with a high fee agreed to make the move permanent, because I would have had more assurances had it been lower."
He went back to Anfield before moving out on loan again, this time to AC Milan, who said they would give him a permanent contract if he made 25 appearances.
"It was absurd," Aquilani said. "I'd already played 18 games by December and only needed seven more in six months.
"Then I picked up an injury and [Milan's general manager Adriano] Galliani called me to say they wanted to keep me anyway, but not for such a price.
"It was only a misfortune in one way, because then Fiorentina came along."
The midfielder spent three seasons with the Viola before being released earlier this summer.
He said: "The final months weren't the best and I realised we were going to separate.
"I would have liked things to have been a bit clearer, but now I see things from the outside."