Pepe Reina tips Liverpool to win Premier League next season and is committed to Anfield cause
Pepe Reina is confident Liverpool will be challenging for the Premier League title next season.
Full steam ahead: Pepe Reina believes Liverpool are good enough to challenge for honours in next year or so Photo: REUTERS
9:28AM GMT 22 Dec 2010
Despite a turbulent 12 months which has seen Rafael Benitez leave the club, new owners replace George Gillett and Tom Hicks and a poor start to the current campaign, the Liverpool goalkeeper feels the club should be challenging for honours again soon.
“I hope within a year, or a couple of years, we can be up there again.” Reina said.
“We want to be back competing with the top clubs again. That is how it should be.”
Reina, who tasted success with Spain at the World Cup in South Africa, has warned Liverpool fans not to expect too much from the current campaign.
Liverpool sit ninth in the table with question marks already hanging over the future of manager Roy Hodgson.
Despite the turmoil and speculation that Reina wants to leave Anfield, the Spaniard has insisted he is committed to the cause.
“I have a contract for another five-and-a-half years," he told the Daily Mail.
“I am committed here and I want us to win titles. What else can I say or do? It is something the press talks about.
“All I want to talk about is Liverpool and hopefully finishing as high as we can. That is where Liverpool should be year in, year out.
“That is what we want and that is what we are all looking for. We will hope it can be that way again but, at the moment, it is not like that.
“We have to be realistic and at the minute we are fighting for different targets."
Under new owners, NESV, who took control in October, Reina feels the club is moving in the right direction.
“Now the owners are bringing back the positivity. Hopefully we can develop something good.
“I haven't spoken to them much but you can see they are doing everything with a lot of thought.
“It is encouraging that they are thinking about what to do and when to do it. We have to give them time.”
He also targetted Liverpool's FA Cup third-round contest with Manchester United as a potential turning point to their season.
“It could transform things if we win there (Old Trafford). Our aim is to win every title we are involved in but we have to recognise it is not the best draw.
“But it is not the best draw for them. It is going to be a tough game. All we can do is aim to finish as high as we can. Maybe 2011 will be like a fresh start.
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