Pepe Reina tips Liverpool to win Premier League next season

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.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8218681/Pepe-Reina-tips-Liverpool-to-win-Premier-League-next-season-and-is-committed-to-Anfield-cause.html

We need a team of Reinas.
Pure Class

Love his condidence.

Does he know something we don't?

Or are things so bad that he's hit the Sangria!

A bit of liberty taken by the Telegraph's headline writers there as he doesn't actually tip us to win the League next season. Nice words from Pepe and just what i've come to expect from a true club-man and legend in my eyes.

Nice one Pepe your commitment means alot to all of us, and your confidence is well received at this moment in time . It might just be what we need over the christmas period to shove us up the league .

Always has positive stuff to say does Reina. Full of heart, commitment and desire he is. And all for Liverpool too. If only all our players shouwed the same.

Good old Pepe.

Maybe his sudden confidence is because of the imminent arrival of a former manager? I wish anyway.

Legend. My favourite player in our current squad.

The man always has something positive to say. Who can't love him?

love the spirit, we need a team of reinas ,legend..

Love his confidence. I say bring it on, We could well win it next season, although not under Roy ufortunatley.

Well in Pepe.

Glad to hear him commit his future again,never thought it was in doubt myself anyway!

I heart Pepe

pepe's talking about challenging for the league, winning trophies, beating utd in their back yard...the man has ambition and desire...

roy talks about finishing top half of the league table...

Anyone else notice that he didn't mention Roy once? Maybe he knows something will happen?

Love his condidence.

Does he know something we don't?

Or are things so bad that he's hit the Sangria!

   Exactly what i thought when i read it!!

You have to love this man- must be great to have in the dressing room.

Legend.

I'll have what he's smoking :p

We're 12 points begind 1st place. Why not try to to play as well as everyone can and try to do something this season?

Love Pepe! Was he born in Liverpool?!?!

Love Pepe! Was he born in Liverpool?!?!

I actually thought he was Catalan, shows the same desire as Puyol among others but was actually born in Madrid and moved to Barcelona when he was 13 (wikipedia)

must be great to have in the dressing room.

them videos of him after Spain winning are brilliant, if that is any indication of such the character he is.

You gotta love him and his enthusiasm. Why not...

I wish his attitude would rub off on all the players, lets get a string of wins together and see where we are by the end of January.

Well said Pepe ..... but in the meantime we still have Hodgeson!!!!!!

Pepe, you're a star Pity we can't clone him, and train the new Pepe's in all other positions.

We're 12 points begind 1st place. Why not try to to play as well as everyone can and try to do something this season?

To be honest thats only a few losses for the higher up the table teams, which surely looks as it could be likely, and we're right back up there.
Although i know that would mean us winning our games in return, which looks quite unlikely, but who knows!

On your knees for "El Capitano" Reina.

More positive than Hodgson is !

I was thinking to mself where has this come from. When I read I didnt see him say we will win it at any point in the article. He says he hopes to be back up there next year or in a couple of years. Meaning up there challenging. Stupid headline

Anyway we better be back up there challenging.

Whats Pepes song lads?? He deserves a few!!!

The man is a living ''legend''

Top man.  Maybe it's a reaction in part, to his supposed run-ins with Mike Kelly?  He's basically saying I'm not going anywhere.

Good to hear him say it anyway.

Just for a change, the headline does not exactly reflect the content of the article but these are exactly the sort of comments you want to read from one of the senior players.

In addition, the attitude of Reina is absolutely spot on and contrasts markedly with many other "star" names (Rooney, Balotelli, Tevez etc).  SAF / AW and hopefully the next LFC manager have always valued character as one of the most important attributes of the modern day footballer and Pepe has this in abundance.  If his attitude permeates its way through the club, LFC will be the better for it.

PS - First thread I've read tonight which hasn't degenerated into a mud slinging exercise between LFC fans - about time a few people on here grew up !

Love his condidence.

Does he know something we don't?

Or are things so bad that he's hit the Sangria!

I can't think for one moment that Hodgson would still be manager next season.

Good words there Pepe.

Now work on the goalkeeping lad.

I love this man.

We need a team of Reinas.
Pure Class

Good words there Pepe.

Now work on the goalkeeping lad.

Yes, as we all know he needs to be 'more English' 

Gotta love his optimism!! Love u Pepe!!!

Here's a guy who's devoted to his team with an undenyable passion. This is the sort devotion we need to see more of, from other members of our squad. Top man Pepe.

He's the heir to the armband. F***ing love the baldy.

Fair play to you Pepe for your optimism, but i think unless you know something i don't, it's little too early next season.

Nothing but love for the man.

Nice one Pepe.

Notice how he didn't mention Roy in the whole article.

LEGEND
I love his "NEVER DIE" spirit

Top Man in every way
Best keeper in the Prem
LEGEND...

What's Pepe been smoking?!

Now here is someone with passion for the club! Pity some other squad members, including some of the so-called stars, don't take a leaf out of Pepe's book. Best keeper in the Prem is this lad. Long live the Baldy one (except if you look like Kryton)!!

 He's the best keeper in the Prem, I love him and think he was probably the finest signing Rafa made for us, but lets be serious here, we won't win the Prem next season. I know if you actually read what he said he didn't say we would, but the headline writer has got a bit carried away.

 That said, Pepe is top man and if he stays at Liverpool, a future captain IMHO.

With the right manager and the right investment we can bbe there or thereabouts next season, the top 4 are the weakest they 've been in a long long time and the only reason we are so adift is down to having a clueless buffon managing us.

F**k i love Reina. Seriously, everything about him is class. All the youtube videos of him being the life of the Spanish team, and then his constantly good talk about our team. His mum must have gotten some Scouse loving on the side, because the lad has it in his blood!

F**k it, im on board Pepe - No. 19 in 2012!

With the right manager and the right investment we can bbe there or thereabouts next season, the top 4 are the weakest they 've been in a long long time and the only reason we are so adift is down to having a clueless buffon managing us.

Even if we had the best manager in the World managing us, and heavy investment, the league is out of our reach for the forseeable I think. I might be wrong obviously, but that's what I think anyway.

Even if we had the best manager in the World managing us, and heavy investment, the league is out of our reach for the forseeable I think. I might be wrong obviously, but that's what I think anyway.

So we could have the best of everything and still not be close to the league title? The optimism.

We ain't nowhere near winning the league, not with this squad, this manager. Were miles off that nought to do with optimism or pessimism, just plain old fact.

We ain't nowhere near winning the league, not with this squad, this manager. Were miles off that nought to do with optimism or pessimism, just plain old fact.

We are quite close to being a league winning team, it was only two seasons ago we were second and should of won the league, sense then we have sold two world class players, while they will be difficult to replace ,with the right investment we could have players who will be able to do as good a job in some areas and hopefully better in others (scoring goals), If we can also get a second striker with a bit of class and a winning mentality we have a team that can not only challenge but win the league.
 WE ARE NOT MILES OFF WINNING THE LEAGUE ( I apologize for the caps) but I do not like the fact that there has been a lowering of expectation, we do not need three years, we need to keep the great players we have know and invest in some world class talent.
 We could win the league next year if the new owner are willing to invest a large amount of money in the squad.     

You've missed the biggest factor Eddie, a new manager

You've missed the biggest factor Eddie, a new manager

And sh*te tactics

We can win the league next year like other teams can, it's just a matter of winning more f*** football matches than others.

Out of City away, and 2 or 3 others appaling performances in the beginning of season, I've not seen a game where I could be sure at half time that Liverpool had no chance to win. And this even with our "unsufficient" current players and Roy's prehistoric tactics. Fact is everytime things were going well, we had Roy making counter-productive substitutions (or more often not making any, and letting a tired team lose in the last quarter), telling the team to park the bus and/or someone offering a goal to opposition on a stupid error, plus attackers missing a bunch of easy shots.

With a good manager making key players perform better and 3-4 good players replacing our current liabilities, why would Liverpool be unable to win ? 

Ah what about Everton and Stoke away did we even get a shot on target in any of them matches

Everton vs Liverpool : score was 0-0 at half time, with the two sides being very average and not having a lot real occasions, a good scenario for scrapping an away win. Shots on target 5 / 16 for Liverpool, 4 / 13 for Everton (most being in second half).

Stoke vs Liverpool : shots on target 4 for stoke, 3 for liverpool ; + with all their dangerous play they may very well have ended with a player out and a penalty for us

Don't consider these two as games we couldn't win due to being terribly inferior. Just games we lost due to our usual mix of bad tactic choices and individual errors that could have been avoided.

We were F***ing awful in both games you can add Wigan into that as well, it was a miracle we weren't beat.

Love Pepe's enthusiasm and positivity, more than whats coming from Roys gob, in all honesty i cant see it, who can tbh? unless Pepe knows something we dont, we do have two transfer windows to make the most of, and unlike H&G the funds will be made available, our squad apart from the sh*te like Poulsen and Konch is not too bad, it just needs proper managing and encouragement, we did lose quality in Masch and Aquillani and although we have Raul we are still lacking that quality player, we also lost the creativity of Benny and again that has been lacking this season, the resources we do have are well capable but with Roys negativity the chances of him fielding someone like young Dani or Jonjo on a regular basis are next to F**k all, so what happens next? do we (a) buy a player to fill the void and push back those promising youngsters even more, or (b) F**k Roy off, bring in Kenny, with Thommo, use the Jan window to bring the players to replace Konch & Poulsen, promote young Dani and/or Jonjo and have a bit more creativity, bolster the squad with the confidence we need so badly, and start playing with more positivity, climb the table grab the CL spot and then see what the crack is in the summer, only then would i feel more enthusiastic about next season.

   Hodgeson Out....NOW!!    

We were f**king awful in both games you can add Wigan into that as well, it was a miracle we weren't beat.

Roy's tactics (especially before the Totenham game where we started to play a little more attractive football) were making the team look awful in about every match as we conceded possession, even the few we won like Bolton away.

Now it happens that counter-attacking teams win even with crappy possession, and stats show Liverpool had a reasonable number of chances to, at least against Everton.

Anyway back on topic, "with a better manager and investment", I don't see a reason for Liverpool to expect to lose this derby, or at Stoke, next year.

I was saying that though in May, when he was first linked. He is an extremely negative defensive manager. Irrevelant of who we are playing he plays the same way.

Two banks of four, which is very inflexible, conceed possession irrelevant who your playing. Long ball to striker who is usually isolated due to his inflexibility with the two banks of four.

Tactically it is F***ing simple for anyone with any cop on to see why the tactics are not working. The media are either to F***ing stupid to see it or so far up Hodgson hole they don't want to see it.

Poor old peperoni he's always being misquoted in the press

Well this line has started to sound like broken record now but full points to Pepe for coming out and saying it when the atmosphere is really down.I hope he can convince Torres to stay back.

Oh Roy.. did you spread the press syndrome to our Pepe?