nah it's random passed..
end of story

but torres looks quite tired last nite.. maybe he just came back from injury and still not fully fit.. but still managed to score a crucial goal for us..
u rock Torres!!!

Think it was intended for Torres, the pass had plenty of pace and was slightly over-hit even it's for Torres.

The thing is Casillas is playing for the argubly biggest club in Spain while Reina's playing in England. Imagine the Spanish media outburst if Pepe's selected ahead of Iker. It's gonna take a big dip in form in Casillas for Reina to displace the former. Plus if you think the situation is bad, consider Diego Lopez and Victor Valdes who are no slutch either but have to settle for 3rd/4th choice keepers. How Capello wish he could borrow any one of them.

In a way it worked against us as the players were less inclined to commit themselves on the ball, as to avoid injuries especially being a World Cup year. I don't mind physicality on the pitch, but when it extends to wrestling and flying kicks even when the game isn't running, where's the class in that?

Honestly I was bloody delighted Reina saved that header last night. Should have seen the face on their players. And what a hilarious response from Rafa, made my day.

Well, Capello can always settle for that Almunia chap. He seems half decent.

hehehe.. yeah.. take Almunia la Capello.. we need him to be at least some country #1. hehehe... then only arsenal can achieve greatness... and in the MAN theory. we got SeaMAN, then LehMANn, now MANuel Almunia. heheheh... next in line, vito MANnone.

This post has been edited by sakaito: Mar 1 2010, 11:45 AM

No offence to Gunners...he seems half past 6 at best

or Jose MANuel Reina??? hehehe...

have reina played for spain before?

i still remember when Cudicini was suggested to apply for English nationality so that he can play for England but he refused.

Of course he has, in Euro he was featured in one of the group stage matches. Even though he plays second fiddle to Casillas in that competition, he still celebrates the throphy like nobody's business. The airplane and Champione celebration videos are stuff of legend. He shows from time to time that he has a great personality to have in a team. A very extrovert person.

I believe there are talks with Aurelio but his agent is trying to get him higher salary while Rafa want to decrease a little on his salary. Talks are onhold until summer.

Personally, I would like Aurelio to stay.We don't have much players who can deliver great set pieces.He is one of the few we have and losing him isn't something to be happy about.

At the moment, he seems content with sitting on the bench and playing in crucial match while letting our young Insua to get match time.I would say if we can hold on on him, it will be great.We wont have to spend more money buying new left back.Let's not forget Glenny can play on left.Even Agger played once in pre season before!

Aurelio's experience, set pieces and pin point pass are great assets to the team.Him being injury prone or not, him approaching 30 or not, doesn't matter.We need him to fight for the place with Insua and hopefully Mavinga.As long as he is content with rotating the LB position with Insua, I have no problem with him staying in the club even if he is 35 years old!

This post has been edited by solstice818: Mar 1 2010, 01:42 PM

Aurelio is the one that can deliver good crosses, corner and set-piece for free kick. Better than Gerrard in term of corner and free kick delivery. My view.
His crosses and shooting are curling one (some sort like Beckham style) which make defenders hard to defend.

owh. ok. thanks for the clarification. i still remember when Reina was 3rd choice at Barca behind Arnau and another barca keeper.

With aurelio staying, he can teach a thing or two to Insua about being a left back. probably after this Insua will able to deliver the ball as good as Aurelio.

Those shooting skill (thunderbolt), delivery skill (curling freekick) sometimes is inheritant, not something that said want to learn already can learn.

thunderbolt might be inheritant but i'm not sure about delivery skill. it's a skill that can be practiced and perfected. Last time cristiano Ronaldo don't possess curling freekick but after few years of training he possessed one of the deadliest freekick.

Yes, it can be praticed and learned, but not everyone can master it. Only a small portion of players can.

If cannot, then cannot.

wads the wages of liverpool players? any link for dat?

torres is back.good to see that.now i wanna know when is the next liverpool-manu game?i wanna see torres shed them apart once again.

Hmm...

Just a few posers here la...

1. If you had say, 5-7mil pounds to spend on a young understudy for Reina who would it be?

2. COVER FOR TORRES? Who??

3. What are we gonna do once Gerrard retires? Do we have any replacements coming up?

4. Transfer market... Say you were Benitez, you had 15mil in the bank and could spend 50% of the transfer fees out (eg. Torres sould for 50mil, can have 25mil to spend FOR EXAMPLE)

WHO would you take in an out? Reasonable transfer fees la... And WHY?

Reina actually played against Liverpool for Barca in 1 of the UEFA Cup. Or was it Champions League. I can't remember. There's a youtube link to it as well.

Can't find it at work la hehe.

i think valdes iz as good as reina, if not better..

too bad that spain has too many world class talented gk..

if only reina could play for england because he's to good to sit in the bench..