There has been much debate on this website, mostly churned up by media speculation and rumors in general, about the possibility that we might lose the services of our keeper Pepe Reina come next summer (wonder what the Spaniard is aiming his sights at in the above picture?).
While many will consider this an outrageous proposition, there have been factions of fans (albeit in the minority) that do not seem to be bothered about seeing the Spaniard leave. The latter seem motivated by suspicions that Reina’s agent and perhaps even the player himself have made themselves available for an approach from Arsenal and Man Utd (which we all know are looking for a quality replacement for next season). Both these Clubs have goalkeeping issues that need to be solved in time for next season’s campaign.
Obviously, all the possible scenarios here are based on pure speculation and may all boil down to nothing, but then as we have witnessed in January; anything can happen in the blink of any eye and as longs as there is money and ambition involved, the sky’s the limit, and many a times, loyalty is brushed aside like there’s no tomorrow.
I would not be at all surprised to start seeing reports of top goalkeepers linked to the Reds in the coming weeks and months, and it’s no secret that high caliber shot-stoppers such as Lloris, Stekelenburg and Neuer are in fact rumored to be on the move next summer. It is also likely that Utd and the Gunners will opt for one of these three options which will probably work out to be a cheaper option than having to pay the hefty buy-out clause on Reina’s contract.
The player himself has made no declarations in this regard but then again no one thought Torres would leave just a few hours before the transfer deadline. Now I know for a fact, and I will commit here and include myself with the majority of you, that most will want the Spanish keeper to stay, and this for many reasons which are obvious to everyone. Everyone has a dip in form now and again, but Pepe has been a fantastic goalie for the Reds, and he is loved by the fans and highly respected in the football world.
Reina has become a world-class keeper since joining the Reds from a relative unknown quantity and is also our third-choice captain, and there is no doubt that he is in the hearts of the majority of Liverpool fans. Today I have three questions for you:
1) Will Pepe Reina leave Liverpool in next summer transfer window?
2) Do you think that eventually, like Mascherano and Torres, he will hand in a transfer request?
3) If he does leave, who do you see replacing him?
Fire away people!
You forgot to mention Robinson. Wasn’t he linked with us today???
The press is just disgusting.
1. If we are unable to get reinforcements during the summer he may very well leave on the transfer deadline like el sulko did.
2.My heart says no, but my head says yes.
3. I can see Neuer, de Gea or ever Gulcasi( sorry for spelling) stepping up.
I think he will leave. Similar kind of vibe as with Torres – lots of media speculation and not much coming out in the way of reassurances. I think Torres leaving was a big blow for Reina. I really can’t fathom him joining the Mancs but I never would have thought Torres would go to Chelski either.
Having said all this, I’m a little tired of players moving on because of the so-called “lack of ambition” showed by the club when in reality, their own performances are part of the reason why the team is suffering. Over the past two seasons, Torres was a shadow of the player he used to be and Reina, while not as bad, has not been the commanding presence that he once was (this was particularly evident against West Ham).
loris should replace him if he gose
If he leaves, and I seriously hope not. I hope we can get Lloris, he should be available and he is a really good goalie. No British goalie is close to good enough for us at the moment.
But I dont believe he will leave, he will atleast take another season to see where we are with new owners, a new manager and a lot of positivity about what is going on around the club. He is only 28 and have over 10 years left as a world class goalie.
Lloris would be my prefered choice with Akinfeev the runner-up tp replace him if he leaves.
as per my opinion if we buy 4 good players and finishes within top 6 he unlikely to to leave,,,,if nt he will..and owners should handover fresh deal to him without more buy out clause(may be 60mp) like barcelona insert to there palyers(ex bojan-80m euro,messi 250m euro,pedro 90m euro)…and if he leaves den we should nt sell him to scums at any condition..schalke stopper manual neuar or atltico madrid keeper can fit the bill…follow us at @lfc_india_fb
1) It’s easy to dismiss transfer spec from the tabs like this, but youve said yourself no one thought Torres or Masch would leave after claiming to bleed red. At the end of the day, the mancs/arsenal have the £20m at their disposal and an offer is almost inevitable given the state of their reserve keepers (Fabianski, Lindegaard, etc).
2) Again, I (along with most other Liverpool fans) saw their transfer requests as a complete shock. I personally think that Pepe has alot more integrity than these 2, but its impossible to say whether or not he’ll hand a request in.
3) Definitely none of the former England number 1s that litter the mid table of the Prem (Robinson, Foster, Green) so looking abroard for a quality replacement is a no brainer, unless Given becomes available. Apart from the 3 you’ve mentioned and bearing in mind our new owners policy of young signings, I’d like to see de Gea, Kameni or Mandanda come in and develop into a proper replacement.
After Torres, nothing will surprise me now. The thing is, we can all agree that if a player no longer wants to play for LFC, then surely the best thing to do is let them leave, preferably, for a profit.
All we can do is wait, hope for EUROPA success, as it is highly conceivable that we won’t even make European football next season, abecause this will no doubt affect some player decisions as well.
No individual is bigger than the club, as much as I think Pepe is the best EPL keeper.
Honestly, after what The Spanish Poser did in the Jan window, no one can be certain that Pepe wont do the same. As LFC fans we inevitably give our utmost to the team and every player individually too! Pepe has been loved dearly by the fans. But our faith has been shaken and each LFC supporter will now be wary of not having there commitment and faith duly returned.
But we walk on, because this club will always be bigger than any player that comes and goes. Those who stay, will never walk alone!
Yes, Guaranteed he will leave, we cannot offer him anything but money. And he doesn’t need that. the only positive is there are plenty of good goalies around
@Sam, nice to hear you’re so positive for next season.
I think it’s 50/50, personally. The Spanish contingent leaving will definitely have an impact but I don’t think Reina is the sort of person Torres is, I think Reina’s more of a man.
That said, after what Torres did nothing will surprise me, so I’ll just have to wait and see. :-(
i think if FSG can convince him they are seriously ambitious and by that i mean dipping their hands into their OWN pockets and not abramovic’s, and perhaps giving pepe and the other ‘star’ players some sort of input into identifying potential targets, then i don’t think anyone will leave but we need the owners to make a huge statement of intent this summer!
1. I was HONESTLY surprised tht Reina & Torres stayed when Rafa left LFC. They probably harbored hopes that Rafa will return when Hodgson was sacked & seeing that Kenneth Dalglish will be getting a permanent job(rightfully so), I believe that was the main reason Torres left and looks very likely that Reina will follow suit.
2. I hope he doesn’t have to. I do not trust Reina, and Damien Commolli should start looking for a replacement ASAP regardless of Reina’s stand. Once that is done, i’d say safely offload him away from the Prem (pref. back to Spain) as i see no point in keeping a player who has shown glimpse of loyalty issues.
3. Lloris should be our main GK target as it will underline the club’s ambitions. De Gea would be awesome as well. If we cant aim for the stars, Given’s someone who will definitely get the job done for us. But we might be in the market for a new one after a couple of seasons due to his age.
1. It depends whether we qualify for Europe next season, and if we can get some quality players in. If we can’t, and the ownerers shows no ambitions, he will definately leave. Personally I think he’s going to stay.
2. No, he won’t. He seems like a class act, so he will respect his contract.
3. I like Steve Mandanda at Marseille and Carlos Kameni at Espanyol a lot. Hugo Lloris has also been mentioned, and he was great against Liverpool in CL couple of years ago. A keeper who’s highly underrated is Diego Lopez at Villareal, I’ve seen a few Villareal matches, and he is a great keeper, a great shot stopper, and he is someone I would like to see if Reina leaves.
Thanks,Tonio.I think he will leave,yes.Possible replacements wont’t be as good as he is when he’s on top of his game,iv’e been saying for years that he’s the best keeper in English football.But,alas he appears to not be interested any more,and this saddens me.PATIENCE is a Liverpool watch word and Rena doesn’t have it.Now he’s just another Muppet who’s going to miss out on next season.I see him ending up at Arsenal.If old whiskey nose thinks he’s getting his grubby Manc hands on him..well.You all know.I think his loss can be absorbed,though.Mr.Dalglish will have a more than capable back four next season,with Skrtel sitting on the bench through most of it.And secondly we’ll have a lot more of that filthy money to SPEND WISELY in the close season.MAHALO
I wont be shocked at all if he wants to go. After what happened with Torres i wont be surprised at all. But if he was to leave he should never be aloud to go to the Scum. I would not sell even a “virus”to that mob.English goalkeepers are rubbish so we should look abroad. YNWA
Who knows whether he will leave or not. His own recent comments, while needing to be put into perspective, were a bit alarming. But if he does decide to go, I suspect it would have to be over the King’s dead body before he is sold to Utd.
I am just so tired of the “star” players whinging about our position though. Had Pepe (and I do think he is brilliant) not made such an error against Arsenal; had Torres decided to turn up to just one of those awful Woy games that we had lost, that’s an extra 5 points, closer to the top 4. The “stars” have a hand in our position too and I am just fed up with their arrogance. So after the (almost) heartbreak of Torres leaving to join a bunch of mercenaries, let others go too if they think they are too big for LFC. It just won’t be to Utd.
i think he was angry watching torres leave but lately he’s given his 100% support to Kenny,which means he might have changed his mind.i dont think that he’ll be sold come summer.but if the shocking move happens(AGAIN!!)and leaves,then we’ll be a mid table average club if we sing ROBINSON(WHO??!!…HE GOT SCORED BY GARY NEVILLE!!!)…Lloris,Stekelnburg,Diego Lopez,Akinfeev,Frey if Pepe leaves and from these five i’d say Akinfeev.But it wont happen!!(COME ON PEPEEE,DONT DO A TORRES!!!LET THIS SUMMER BE THE 1ST SINCE A LOT OF TIME THAT WE’LL BE GOING FORWARD!!!)
Reina
Johnson Carragher Agger Baines
A.Young Gerrard Adam Dzudzak
Suarez Carroll
Bench:Mertesacker,Elia,Meireles,Kelly,J.Cole,Kuyt,Lucas..and some more..Crap like Kyrgiakos,Poulsen,Maxi,Ngog,Jovanovic,Skrtel,Insua,Aquilani,El ZHar,Degen,Konchesky must be sold to 2nd division teams(i dont care actually as soon as they get the f**K out of LIVERPOOL!!!)
YNWA
I don’t believe he will. Handing him the captains armband for a few games was a masterstroke in cementing his ties to the club…..well, atleast for another season… where I’m sure we’ll qualify for the Champion’s League.
Kenny seems quite confident he will stay and has categorically dismissed any speculation, a few weeks ago, about him leaving !
I bumped into Reina and Meireles outside Liverpool’s Royal hospital on Monday, both were going for mri scan over knocks they had picked up from the west ham game. I asked Pepe how he felt the game went ad he said he he was obviously disappointed (and he looked it too). I then asked him if he was following torres out of the club and sheepishly he replied ‘we will have to see what happens!’. So I asked him if it depended on where we finished in the table to which he said ‘Yeah, that and a few other things’, ‘players in?’ I asked, ‘yeah I suppose so, yes’ he replied! I honestly didn’t feel like he looked comfortable me asking him the questions and in my opinion only, I’m not confident he’s going to stay :( Bog loss but if he doesn’t want to be at the club, then we have to let him go and find a replacement who does. I certainly hope I’m wrong with my gut feeling and that the £110k a week his agent is negotiating for as well as a desire to see us back in the mix keeps him at the club for the rest of his career.
1. Yes I think he will leave, I think seeing masch alonso and torres go were big blows for him as all the Spanish players lived close by each other.
2. I dont think he will hand request in as he wont want same animosity torres got.
3. Replacements, lopez of villareal, muslera of lazio, Gordon of spiderman, asenjo of atletico. I dont rate lloris he was very poor at wc and has not been amazing for Lyon, just good
Come on guys, admire your loyalty to death but lets face it , neither is his heart in the club nor his talent on the pitch.
He is average in dealing with Xs, has brilliant reflexes, is a good shot stopper & gets very nervous in the big games. Is not adverse to scoring the odd own goal, remember the goal he scored in the 4-4 at Chelsea? ( that was the beginning of our downfall, having previously disposed of Real & Maure by four goals at a time), we should have gone on to the final demolishing Manure, not Chelsea.
Remember his last minute contribution in our opening game of the season against Arsenal?
Hopefully once he has left he will be as successful as his compatriot is for Chelsea ( long may it continue, as I have said before every manwhore for himself).
Pool to win 3-1,
YNWA
He has said he wants to go and he will!
@Talltoe. I would have thought that players who get millions of pounds would have there own private doctors etc. Not bump into the general public in the nhs hospitals… Not telling porkies are u? I do believe he’s going to leave because of his Spanish friends leaving and Liverpools continuing bad performane. I don’t think hr can see the light at the end if the tunnel with Suarez being the only world class player we have. So many average players. I don’t think he has any confidence left inthe team. U can see he’s pissed off I every game. I could see it in Torres face before he left. Half the team would do the same if a more sucussful team made enquiries about them…
1. I think he will and I hope he does. It will be the best for both parties.
2. Get over yourselves and stop with that moral fiber crap. Torres is a good man who got tires of being lied to. handing a tranfer request doesn’t mean lack of integrity. It means you want to grow as a professional and your time at a club reached the end. I don’t know if Pepe will hand the said TF, but I’m sure he will leave.
3. Lloris would be a great replacement, but don’t know about him wanting to leave his club.
You are not going to like what I have to say hear, Pepe has hinted on a possible move but will honour his contract, that should tell us the vibes he is sending out.
As it has already been said, we only want players that want to play at Liverpool.
I for one is fed up of foreigners coming over for a quick buck, then sodding off back home sick.
I don’t think we would go far wrong with Shay Given as a replacement swap with substantial cash offer to City, all parties hopefully happy.
1) we never know, but i hope he won’t
2) again, i hope he won’t
3) maarten stekelenburg (so we’ll have 3 martins in the team:)) or hugo lloris. but still, i prefer pepe to stay
we are with you pepe!
Maybe Pepe is missing his family back in Spain.
Please let him go.
Suerte Pepe y gracias por todo.(Good luck Pepe and thank you for all)
pepe wil leave come summer.lloris or neuer shud replace him.
If he wants out sell him!, I don’t want anymore crap from ‘loyal players’, get Shay Given who is a class act sitting on his arse at City…….look how well Torres is doing?????, Mascherano isn’t doing too well at Barca is he?????
You can’t expect foreign players to have the passion as carra or gerard. It’s obvious they’ll go if a better offer comes along. Being a prof footballer has a very short life span so time is short. I bet bet Suarez and Meireles will be gone in a few years if they continue to excel.
NEUER is currently, I think, the best goalkeeper in the world… but it would be like pulling a very important player from a team… but I think Comolli & NESV can do anything they want…
This is quite unlike your usual posts, Tonio, in that it’s not really about anything, is very short and directly asks for feedback. Did you have a late one last night by any chance? But for participation’s sake:
1) Hope not
2) Hope not
3) Somebody good hopefully
I hope also that the ‘calibre’ of your writing is not taking a dip… unless, that’s an american spelling as are your -izations, getting warm?
I mean, you haven’t even bothered to comment on your comments, as is your usual wont!
I apologize whole-heartedly for the dip in quality which was not intentional. Also with regards to the usual ‘odd’ spelling mistake. As a matter of fact I did hate a ‘long late one’ last night and yes, was just getting warmed up. Hope not to disappoint you in future articles.
That makes two of us ;-)
Enlighten me further.