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Arsenal To Launch Audacious £23m Bid For Liverpool Goalkeeper Pepe Reina

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Arsenal are ready to make an audacious bid for Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina. The Gunners are willing to make an initial offer of £23 million as manager Arsene Wenger grows increasingly desperate for a replacement for error-prone number one Manuel Almunia.

The Frenchman is believed to have singled out the Spanish international reserve goalkeeper as an answer to his problem between the posts and is ready to pay as much as £25 million for the solid custodian.

But Wenger will have to pull out all the stops to tempt Reina away from the Kop. The Spanish shotstopper is the Anfield number one, enjoys an adoring Kop following and is committed to the club, signing a new six-year deal as recent as April and also publicly committed himself to the club during the summer when the Reds appeared to be lurching from one crisis to another.

The Gunners boss has increasingly fewer options though after a bid to lure Australian keeper Mark Schwarzer away from Fulham appeared to have ended with new Craven Cottage boss Mark Hughes refusing to release his player.

Wenger has already expressed the lack of confidence in his own number one after claiming Almunia often looked unstoppable in training but turned a bundle of nerves during games. Highly regarded backup Lukasz Fabianski is still considered to lack experience and the Frenchman is unsure of throwing him into the fray regularly just yet, especially after last season’s high profile fumbles.

For now, Liverpool have made it clear that they will not, and do not, need to sell any of their stars. The Anfield club had already pulled off a major coup by persuading Spanish star Fernando Torres to stay for another season despite strong interest from Chelsea, and with no capable backup to Reina, manager Roy Hodgson will not even contemplate such an offer.
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No chance.
 
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Fuck off Wenger

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I hope they put an offer in, so we get to wipe our collective bums with it.
 
Lets all laugh at arsenal, lets all laugh arsenal nan nar nar na, nan nar nar na...
 
As long as people are making proposals that won't ever happen, we should ask to trade him for Fabregas.
 
[quote author=Farkmaster link=topic=41320.msg1149935#msg1149935 date=1281169267]
As long as people are making proposals that won't ever happen, we should ask to trade him for Fabregas.
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would you be happy with that? I wouldn't.
 
If this story is true, I suggest Wenger read my post last year about how Reina and Kuyt tried to push a river-boat closer to shore to be closer to 5000 screaming fans in Singapore clamouring to be closer to them.

I think there was also a statement by Reina that was almost Carra-esque some months ago when a journo asked Reina if he'd ever like to go to another 'really big club'.

He said 'I'm already at a really big club'.

In other words, I zoo not zee dis happening.
 
Pepe won't leave Liverpool.

Hahaha Wenger is desperate. I hope Roy is taking notes and getting the lads to work on their shooting after Thursday's match.
 
Is this some kind of pathetic attempt at mind games before the first league match? If not, what could have possessed Wenger to imagine this had any chance?
 
Why on earth would anyone assume there's any truth to the story? It's utterly implausible, and it's published in the Scum.
 
[quote author=TheBunnyman link=topic=41320.msg1149956#msg1149956 date=1281171695]
Why on earth would anyone assume there's any truth to the story? It's utterly implausible, and it's published in the Scum.

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Not happening but it's nice to know that Pepe is highly rated and valued. That's a huge sum of money to be wanting to pay for a keeper.
 
Pepe is exactly the type of keeper Arsenal need. They'd come very close to winning the league. But they can fuck off and keep dreaming. He should be in for Hart.
 
[quote author=Judge Jules link=topic=41320.msg1149952#msg1149952 date=1281171501]
Is this some kind of pathetic attempt at mind games before the first league match? If not, what could have possessed Wenger to imagine this had any chance?
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The fact that Pepe hasn't played a competitive game all summer and hasn't been part of any of the pre season games would worry me for the Arsenal game more than any of Arsenes silly mind games.
 
He would instantly make Arse much better, so you could understand if Wenger was interested. It probably is nonsense though.
 
doubt this will happen. Wenger never seems capable of buying keepers though so i can see why he is interested.
 
Why wouldnt they want him, I wouldn't be surprised if they did offer a similar amount.

Regardless of the figure though, he won't be leaving anytime soon.
 
Why would he want to play for a manager who constantly has had problems with his Goalkeepers and has always said what he thought of them therefore ruining any confidence they may have.....

Richard Wright
Jens Lehmann
Manuel Almunia

They have all been criticised by Wenger.....
 
[quote author=Modokay link=topic=41320.msg1149939#msg1149939 date=1281169615]
I thought he only liked kids.
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No that's Pat Rice.
 
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