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[damjan193]

The bad thing now is that next season, Barca won't offer nearly as much as they would have this season because they'll know that we want to sell.

[LFC1990]

Or we ask for more because we know they want him

[Penguins]

Hand on heart, how likely is that?
Considering what we did this summer.
Mignolet will be here next summer which means we don't want to pay Reina's wages more next summer than we did this summer....

[redno7]

but he'll be a year older and we'll be glad to get £5m for him.

[Benny The Noon]

A world class GK being sold on the cheap !

If Mignolet is £9mil then double that for Pepe - especially after a season in the CL

[Penguins]

He would be a year older, 1 year less left on his contract and we'd be desperate to see him leave.
I say around 5 million is what we'd get.

[redno7]

A world class GK being sold on the cheap !

If Mignolet is £9mil then double that for Pepe - especially after a season in the CL

once again your just making stuff up lad, give ya head a shake

[Benny The Noon]

A world class GK being sold on the cheap !

If Mignolet is £9mil then double that for Pepe - especially after a season in the CL

once again your just making stuff up lad, give ya head a shake

No it's called my opinion. Something you fail to grasp - the ability for people to have an opinion that is different to yours.

[ycsatbjywtbiastkamb]

well whatever happens the club were put in this position by pepe reina, we had no choice but to look elsewhere.

[red till i die!!]

lets just hope then that brendan does not allow himself to be so easily led in future 

It was what happened with Torres / Carroll that made him act quickly. In his 30 minute appearance on TAW he said he'd been stung before and left in the lurch and wanted to make sure that didn't happen again. It's not about being so easily lead - Barca would have bid for Reina if Valdes hadn't have done a u-turn on his
retirement.

there was rumours valdes was going to stay months ago and im not 100% sure but i thought valdes announced that before mignolet signed for us.
i get what your saying about rodgers not wanting to get stung but in all honesty he was the one that should be in control. the first thing that should have been done was tell his agent that he's going nowhere until a bid that the club deem acceptable comes in. kinda like what he is doing with suarez now.

[red till i die!!]

lets just hope then that brendan does not allow himself to be so easily led in future 

Almost every manager would have made the same decision, the difference is not every club cannot afford two highly paid goalkeepers int he first team XI. Richer clubs than ourselves could maintain that squad cost, we cannot. That is the only difference.

No decent manager would not react to a clearly imminent risk of his first team keeper leaving, the fact that the deal did not materialise is irrelevant. When a credible risk presents itself you become reactive. If Rodgers had not been reactive to the situation, the result could have easily been another fiasco akin to what happened at the start of last season with our strike force, or lack of.

do you really think mignolet is getting anything close to what reina was earning?.
going by the rumoured savings of £3.5 mil a year and reina on £110k per week  which is almost £6.2 a year then mignolet would have to be earning £2.7 a year at about £45k per week. i doubt we are paying him that, more like £35 to £40k a week.
rodgers doesnt rate reina (which he is entitled to do) and wanted his own man. thats it. the wage saving was always going to get the boards backing.
no top manager would sign a replacement goal keeper because his agent said to expect a bid without that bid materialising.
last year was a fiasco in letting your striker go on loan without having a replacement but now he has gone full circle and done completely the opposite as in buying the replacement first.
all of this could have been avoided if he just waited for a bid rather than jump the gun unless in rodgers head reina was always going to leave this year and a bid would just have been convenient but it didnt and the situation became a mess where pepe goes on loan and we still could be paying some of his wage. he has also seriously reduced any hope of us even getting what he is worth next year.

[bunglemark2]

Reina architected his own exit, he's to blame for this by his own comments. You reap what you sow....

[C-R]

Reina architected his own exit, he's to blame for this by his own comments. You reap what you sow....

no sh1t sherlock

[C-R]

Reina: "It is only natural that I would be disappointed that the Liverpool management agreed to loan me to Napoli without telling me first."

Reina: "I told the manager that I wanted to play for LFC and that Barcelona would only become an option for me if the opportunity arrived."

#Reina: "I thought that I deserved better than that even though I understand that difficult decisions have to be taken in football."


from twitter

[SouthCoastShankly]

Reina Letter in full

"It is a strange feeling for me to think that next season I will not be a Liverpool player. For the past eight years, that is all I have known. The club, the staff, the city, the people and the supporters have played a massive part in my life. Liverpool is special in a way that only those who are lucky enough to experience the club close up can understand. It has given me memories that will live with me forever and friendships that will last just as long.

"But more than anything else, it has given me an understanding of what it is like to play for the most wonderful English club. I may not have won as many trophies and medals as I would have liked since joining in 2005 but the experiences I have been a part of are as important as any silverware. I now understand how supporters can lift a team and inspire them to do special things. I appreciate that there is something unique about Anfield and the atmosphere it creates. I believe that anything is possible no matter what the situation is because at Liverpool there is no such thing as a lost cause. And I have been humbled by the fight for justice for the 96 which showed me that the Liverpool people will always fight for what they believe in.

"I know that I have been blessed to be part of a Club like that and I hope that in return I have always given my best and represented Liverpool in the right way. There have been good times and bad times but no matter what the situation has been I hope that my passion has been clear. I have been asked what my favourite Liverpool moment was and if I had to pick one it wouldn’t be a save or winning a trophy. It would be my celebration against Manchester United when David Ngog scored a late goal. That is probably the quickest I have ever run in my life! It shows what playing for Liverpool meant to me and also that there was nothing better than winning a big game at Anfield. I used to look at the Kop when we scored those kind of goals in big games and I would be jealous of the supporters going crazy. If the closest I will get to that is running the length of the pitch and jumping on my team mates backs then that will do for me.

"Obviously, I won’t be able to do that next season but I hope that the supporters and my team mates will be able to enjoy many more moments like that. They deserve the best of times and it would give me so much pleasure to see Liverpool back where they belong, challenging for trophies and getting back into the top four. That was where the club was when I first arrived and although I am leaving a different club, one with new owners, a new manager, new players and new challenges, I honestly believe that Liverpool can reach those levels again.

"I am disappointed that I will not be part of that and although it was not my decision to leave I will accept it just like I have always accepted any decision that Liverpool have taken for me. They signed me, picked me, gave me some of the best experiences of my life and looked after me. If they feel that the best thing for me and for them is for me to go on loan to Napoli for a season then so be it. Napoli is a new challenge for me and I know that the fans are just as passionate about their team as the Liverpool fans, so I am really looking forward to playing for them this season and I will give my all.

"But if I have one regret, it is the way that I am leaving. It is only natural that I would be disappointed that the Liverpool management agreed to loan me to Napoli without telling me first, I thought that I deserved better than that even though I understand that difficult decisions have to be taken in football. A lot has been made about me informing the club that if an offer came in from Barcelona that I would have liked them to consider it. But I had also spoken to the club about the possibility of extending my contract if the offer was not made. I told the manager that I wanted to play for Liverpool and that Barcelona would only become an option for me if the opportunity arrived, like the rumours said it would, as it would be a chance for me to go back home. When it didn’t come I was happy to fight for my place so I was surprised that Liverpool decided it was in the club´s interests to send me to Napoli instead.

"None of this will change my feelings for the club or the people in any way and now I have to look forward to a new challenge with Rafa Benitez, who I consider to be the best manager I have worked with, and I am fortunate to be going from one great club to another. Napoli remind me in many ways of the Liverpool I found in 2005, in all the affection they have shown me on my arrival, in having an ambitious project, even in coinciding and working with Benitez again…This memory which in part unites me with you, makes me happy and feel very motivated to begin this new project.

"This is my chance to say thank you to everyone for everything that you have given to me and to my family. My children consider Liverpool to be their home and hopefully their love for the city and also for the club will only grow while we are away. I would have liked to have been able to say goodbye in a different way but because of the way the move came about this was not possible.

"Maybe in the near future I can do it properly so that I can show my appreciation to you but all I would ask now is that you keep on inspiring the manager and the players just like you always have done and help Liverpool to become the club that you deserve once again. I would like nothing better than to come back at the end of my year away and for Liverpool to be back where they belong.

"Thank you for everything. Good luck. I will see you soon."

Living Legend