So you never watched our Ray then ?
Rafa wants to sign Reina
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So you never watched our Ray then ?
Personally I really don't believe it. Napoli have 124m Euros to spend. Why on earth would we loan out a player of his quality ?
Because if he has a half decent season, Barcelona and Napoli could very realistically have a bidding war over him next summer.
Napoli signed a 23 yr old Brazilian goalkeeper Rafael from Santos for €5 million a week ago. Might be a stop gap for both Napoli and Reina.
Yet another reason for Napoli not to go for a loan then.
It's too much work to question the motives of other clubs. West Ham took Cole and Carroll off our hands after all...
bingo. us fans can be so fickle. in 6 months time we will all be saying why did we let reina go and he was amazing for us. utd struggled for years to repalce schmeichal, we will also struggle to replace reina.
Reinas best attributtes when he joined were reaction saves and distribution
His agility isn't as good because he's older
His distribution for the last 2 years has been a mixed bag.
I really like pepe. He's a fucking Don, but god Damn it sentimentality has held us back for a while.
His agility isn't as good because he's older
His distribution for the last 2 years has been a mixed bag.
I really like pepe. He's a fucking Don, but god Damn it sentimentality has held us back for a while.
I'd rather get a fee for him now and get the wages off our books obvs.
But hopefully this loan deal will result in him keeping his value up in terms of good performances and we'll get about 7-8 mill for him next year from Barca. Instead of sitting on the bench for a year, earning 110k a week and seeing his value decrease. Its the next best option imho.
He's been saying for the past months that a return to Barca would be great but I'm guessing Valdes decision to stay postponed that for a year.
Oh, and I hate dealing with Italian clubs. Bar Coutinho we've been buttfucked every time.
But hopefully this loan deal will result in him keeping his value up in terms of good performances and we'll get about 7-8 mill for him next year from Barca. Instead of sitting on the bench for a year, earning 110k a week and seeing his value decrease. Its the next best option imho.
He's been saying for the past months that a return to Barca would be great but I'm guessing Valdes decision to stay postponed that for a year.
Oh, and I hate dealing with Italian clubs. Bar Coutinho we've been buttfucked every time.
We've already replaced him, time will tell if Mignolet is a good keeper, but we've done our work early and hopefully made the right choice. I don't know why you have to draw parallels with United and be so predictably glass half full, we're not United, Reina's not Schmeichal.
I don't always refer to utd, but we're liverpool and our barometer needs to be the best (which we were for a long time), would you rather I refer to stoke and west ham for comfort?
Back to Reina - we've spent 9m on a position which is not a priority, we could end up saving 4-5m on wages, but still we have spent money on a position where we have someone who is excellent. For all we know this money could end up being the difference between us seeking our top target or a 2nd rate one.
As for Mignolet, I obviuolsy hope he does well, but the point is I can't see him being an improvement on Reina, he will be lucky if he matches Reina.
With Cesar on £90k/wk and judging by these comments, I'd think Reina is either taking a pay cut to join them or we will be subsidizing part of the wages?
If he's going then we haven't strengthened the goalkeeping position at all, we've probably weakened it. Ward is actually even weaker than Gulacsi. I know it's difficult when you're always being pressured into talking to the media but Rodgers needs to learn to say less and less. All of that 'Me and Pepe spoke last season and he's happy about all of this' now looks even sillier as it sounded at the time.
I agree to an extent, but if Rodgers was asked about him, i'd rather him try and convey pepe was happy with the decision, rather than drive the price down.
But we have weakened ourselves, mainly because i haven't actually seen Ward play,
Well, I suspect Rodgers and Reina did speak and that they were both 'happy' that Reina was going to leave.
I'm not particularly happy about Reina leaving - especially not on loan as it would seem plausible that we're going to be paying some of his wages. I hope this Mignolet guy lives up to his billing (and price tag).
I'm not particularly happy about Reina leaving - especially not on loan as it would seem plausible that we're going to be paying some of his wages. I hope this Mignolet guy lives up to his billing (and price tag).
This is costing us, what, 14m this season to save 2.5m every season?
That fits with a conspiracy theory about them selling the club in the near future...
That fits with a conspiracy theory about them selling the club in the near future...
Yes, I'm not having a go at Rodgers but less is more ought to be the motto now. As for Ward he's years off playing for any first team.
If Napoli are paying all his wages then I can understand the thinking but if we're not then it's a bit of a pointless move. Makes Rogers statement we signed Mingolet for competition look a bit daft though.
yup
A loan deal is nonsense for all concerned.
We've bought a replacement already so its bloody obvious we don't want him back, he's consistently won the golden glove award so is hardly likely to improve his reputation over the next season, will be a year older and have 12 months less left on his contract. And we could do with the money now for other positions.
If we are getting rid, which I personally think is a mistake, I'd rather 7m in hand now and him off the wages bill than hold out for an unlikely 12m say in a years time.
Agreed. I think both player and team wanted out, but I'm still sad to see him go, even though his best seems behind him. He has been absolutely phenomenal at times.
Oh he's gone, Rodgers has admitted it's financial reasons why he's going, he wouldn't do that if he weren't going.
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Rodgers: “Financially it is something we needed to look at,” he said. “Because obviously otherwise you wouldn’t move on a top goalkeeper."
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Rodgers: “Financially it is something we needed to look at,” he said. “Because obviously otherwise you wouldn’t move on a top goalkeeper."
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