Pepe on Mancs

[JohnnyH]

That's fair enough.

 

But I don't trust anyone in football anymore other than Kenny.

 

See if you'd just said that I'd probably have repped you!

[T_R]

I thought the mancs were looking at Manuel Neuer, and well and truly in the mix for the Ajax keeper.

[Seemann]

I repeat it's nailed on that Ajax keeper is going to United, even the Ajax fans have accepted it

 

It wouldn't surprise me and if Van Der Sar has a word to say regarding their new keeper I think it's very likely to happen.

 

Stekelenburg is still a relatively young keeper with his his best years ahead of him.

[redsoxs]

Just as predicted.

[18-5]

Stekelenburg is not as good though. He is very error prone and given the way Ajax do business, they will ask a lot of money.

[Seemann]

If we were to sell Pepe for lets say £20 mill. I'd go with Neuer and while we're at it get Mertesacker in aswell.

[Jonny83]

Hoping this is media bollocks. I know there's the idea that nothing is impossible after Torres, but him going to the Chavs and a washed-up Owen ending up at the Mancs via Real and the barcodes is one thing, but I just can't see a direct transfer between us and the scum happening. When was the last time that happened - the 60s?

[Major Tom]

I would be disappointed to see Reina leave but not surprised. There are a few candidates out there right now so it wouldn't be a catastrophe.

 

Until we are at least challenging for a CL spot, this sort of stuff will keep happening.

[Einch]

Just as predicted.

 

A personal prediction or based on some firmer information?

[RedinSweden]

I don't think this will get much attention in the press until the week leading up to 6th March and then it will get the full glare of the media that it deserves.

[18-5]

I don't think this will get much attention in the press until the week leading up to 6th March and then it will get the full glare of the media that it deserves.

 

This.

 

Papers will even write that he has agreed in private that he would join United in the summer.

[Frankenhooker]

Personally I don't think there's much in this, despite some quotes, mainly because we don't know in what context these quotes were made. We don't know what preceded them and you can bet your life what Reina said after has been omitted.

 

Of course they may be true, and after recent events nothing would surprise me. Pre-Dalglish 'news' like this may of upset me, now I find myself in agreement with the King. If he wants to leave then let him go, no player is bigger than the club, he will be replaced and we will endure, as always.

 

The badge is more important than the player.

[lucozade]

I would take this story with a pinch of salt. These stories always come out when the spanish players go on International duty.

 

There is nothing the english tabloids like more than quotes translated from a foreign language. They know the majority of the readership can't check the accuracy and they know any errors (also known as willful misrepresentation) can be passed off as a translation error.

 

These stories are always bollocks the players never turn out to have said what is quoted at all.

[Xherdan]

Pepe wants to challenge for Trophies. Thats good because so do we.

 

NEXT.

[betterman]

In January, Reina pledged his future to Liverpool, insisting that he would honour his contract with the Merseysiders.

 

"I'm tired of rumours linking me with many teams in England and abroad," he told the Daily Star Sunday. "I am a man of my word and commitment. I will honour my contract with Liverpool. Stories of these offers are not true. I have not spoken to anyone - ever - and I am 100% a Liverpool player.

 

"Since I've been here, I've found an incredible passion - more than I thought from Spain. Liverpool as a club is sacred, it is something special. Being Liverpool's goalkeeper is a privilege. For now, I just want to win trophies for them."

 

Comparing this with the latest interview, I think you can be nothing but nervous until they have signed a replacement.

[JER]

2 things -

 

1) I think if we carry on in the same veign Pepe will stay. He has seen a club in free-fall for the last 2 years and all his mates leave - we are now on the way up, and this will only improve when Kenny is given a new contract

 

2) Refuse any Manc offer that comes in. He is under contract and we don't have to sell if it doesn't suit us.

[navbasi]

Personally, if he goes, so be it. We as a club are on the up, if ANY player doesn't want to be apart of it, then they can fuck off. Pepe is worth at least £35m in today's inflated prices, to have a £20m release fee inserted is just sheer incompetence.

 

I have complete trust in Kenny and Henry to do right by Liverpool Football Club.

[Unrighteous]

If we were to sell Pepe for lets say £20 mill. I'd go with Neuer and while we're at it get Mertesacker in aswell.

 

Rene Adler is the better keeper. If it wasn't for an injury, then he'd have been backstopping Germany at the World Cup.

[navbasi]

Lyon keeper Hugo Lloris - He was brilliant against us in the Champions League last season, Arsenal and Utd have also been sniffing around him.

[ritchie]

This is all thanks to that utter cunt Purslow who ran this club like he was playing Championship manager.

 

How anyone on here can defend him is beyond me.

[gkmacca]

I don't know why the guy is treated with such reverence by some fans. He seems to come out with something like this every other month. He knows what's being planned, he knows the likely time scale, so shut up or go. If he's such a sainted red it would be very easy for him to stop this nonsense once and for all.

[Chairman Meow]

I thought that Scandinavian they signed was supposed to be the long term answer for the mancs. Called Lindegaard or something like that.

[Unrighteous]

I don't know why the guy is treated with such reverence by some fans. He seems to come out with something like this every other month. He knows what's being planned, he knows the likely time scale, so shut up or go. If he's such a sainted red it would be very easy for him to stop this nonsense once and for all.

 

He did. The papers keep running shit like this to sell them.

[lucozade]

None of these quotes are reported in the spanish media. Pepe was on Onda Cero with Fernando Torres. He talked about how people should understand why Fernando left and how he scored a lot of good goals and played good football over the last 3.5 seasons and people should understand his decision to move on because people come and go in football. They both talked about how they are good friends. I listened to a clip from the show here

 

Reina: "No está siendo fácil para Torres, pero lo disimula"

 

They are not suggesting in Spain that he has said anything to imply he will leave or that shows a lack of committment.

 

So really nothing much to this as far as I can tell from a quick google of the spanish media

[lebron]

De Gea (sp) from Atletico Madrid will probably go on to be even better than Pepe, wouldn't mind him if Pepe decides to call it a day here. Fantastic shot-stopper and (with the potential to be) more dominant in the box as well (always hard to compare how well he'd do in England, but he certainly has the height!).

 

Would obviously like Pepe to stay forever, but I think recent events have shown anything is possible in modern football, even if I've always thought Pepe was the player most in sync with the club's traditions and thinking, including Gerrard and perhaps even Carra!