Joey

Never!

Buffon, Cech, Casillas. Possibly Hart. Can't think of anyone better.

Dudek was s**** though. There's only four clubs in the world who wouldn't be improved by signing Reina.

Purslow's a massive, egotistical t**. Can't really criticise Ayre for not thinking that all CEOs are that incompetent.

I'm sure fans of most clubs have heard rumours about their latest signing long before it happens. And even if we managed to keep our targets under wraps, why would the selling team do the same? If they had any sense they'd be ringing round every club who might be interested, trying to start an auction. That's assuming we're the only club who've heard of him. Maybe Dortmund's scouts were sat smoking in a portakabin, flicking through copies of the Echo looking for players to sign.

I agree that he doesn't make the full-stretch saves that he used to, and he has made a few errors recently that he wouldn't have made in years gone by. I just think that the importance of that part of a goalkeeper's game is overstated. And though he's playing poorly by his own standards, there's no reason to think he can't regain his earlier form, and there's a lot of reasons to think that Mignolet won't be able to handle the step up. And seeing as I'm banging on and I've already put my foot in it: you should look in to coaching. You clearly have a desire to learn about football and to question orthodoxy.

On Pepe: Shot-stopping is over-rated, and mistakes when attempting to save a shot play a far bigger part of people's perception of a GK's worth than they should do. Reina was - and still is - one of the best keepers ever. He rarely makes the showy, fingertip saves that Cech makes. But his long distribution, and his ability to sweep, are better than anything I've ever seen. He also puts his c**k-ups behind him within seconds: James and Dudek would carry them with them for months. Mignolet might be better, but who knows? I doubt James, Freidel, Kirkland, or Dudek looked s*** for whoever we signed them from. As you pointed out, Mignolet is a lot busier than Pepe. But there's nowhere near the scrutiny on a Sunderland keeper as there is on an LFC keeper. Could he handle the beach-ball incident being played for a month on SSN? Being the laughing stock of the country for a month even though there was nothing he could have done about it? We don't know until happens and by then we could be stuck with either playing a keeper whose lost all confidence or Brad f***ing Jones.

I'm glad. Statistical posts like yours can be very insightful. I hope my s***ting on your first effort doesn't stop you producing more. I'm part of the goalkeeper's union so I get unreasonably agitated when Pepe's discussed.

Sorry that I was so rude. I genuinely was impressed with the effort that went in to your post. I disagreed with the content, but made an a*** of making that point in a civil manner.

I'm afraid you're right. I had a point I wanted to make - which I'm not sure warranted making - and I made it badly.

Jesus Rory, the effort that's gone in to that is incredibly impressive. I'm afraid I don't think it's as insightful as you hoped it would be.

That's ten.

There's that too. Though I reckon Suarez would be going mad if he was missing out on the Liverpool Senior Cup.

Pretty much, yeah. I honestly think he hasn't been that bad, just not as good as he was for the three or four years after he signed. And some of the stuff he's been slated for hasn't been his fault. The criticism after the City game was ridiculous. He did the right thing and got done by a piece of incredible skill. Why does it have to be irreversible decline? He's not old for a keeper and if it's losing Valero that's the problem, signing a new keeper won't make a difference,

Brendan Rodgers = a div Lads in the office = infallible football geniuses Stick the stats up.

Like you said earlier, if we told Suarez he's staying, there's no way he'd be able to sit in the reserves letting his contract run down. If he gets upset coming off on 85 minutes, he's not going to be able to spend a whole a season running his contract down on the bench.

Has he really been that bad? I know there's been a few more but the two 'mistakes' I remember are the goal against Arsenal in Hodgson's first game when the ball came out of the sun and the City game this year when Aguero(?) scored from a ridiculous angle. Neither were a sign of an incompetent keeper. He's also been slated for his ability to play the short ball under Rodgers, but I reckon that's as much to do with the full-backs not getting in to the right positions.

Haha! I hope to f*** to not. TBH I applaud them trying to wring every penny of value out of what they spend. It's the only way we'll get back in the Champion's League without two or three of the teams above us all turning to s*** at the same time. Just don't think there's any value in getting shut off Reina. He did. We're not in the position to carry to a mediocre keeper. They were.

s*** at penalties?

The club seems to going down the path of 'value'. If Reina's wages are what's reported then I can see why they'd want to bring in someone cheaper. If they think Mignolet's more cost-effective, then fair enough if that means an improvement elsewhere in the squad. Experience tells me that finding a decent keeper is very hard and the savings are unlikely to cover the cost of signing someone who makes up for the drop in quality between the nets.

Someone made the point earlier that we seem to ruin keepers (though I'm not sure how much he saw of Freidel at Columbus Crew). I think it's more that it's a huge step up. You might have less to do, but you're under extreme scrutiny. If you throw it in the back of the net for Sunderland you've only got the locals questioning you. If you do it for Liverpool, it must seem like the whole country is questioning your ability. James and Dudek both buckled under the pressure of becoming a national talking point. For all the mistakes Reina's made, he's never let that get to him. It's one of the many things I admire about him.

It's not an entirely coherent article, but there is a point to be made about the relative cost of English players compared to foreigners. Where I think he goes wrong, is by putting it down to greed: the Championship is one the wealthiest leagues in Europe and the teams are playing for a place in the wealthiest league in Europe. It's perfectly rational for them to want more money to compensate them for losing a good player. In most cases they don't need the money as badly, and letting them go means they have less chance of reaching the Premier League gravy train. Not sure about what he's saying on Coates. He was partly bought for potential, partly to be 4th/3rd choice. Carra's form held up and neither Agger or Skrtel got injured, so he didn't get he opportunities. It's unfortunate for him but not the end of the world for us either.

Exactly. Any footballer who isn't acting in the best interests of LFC at all times is obviously a greedy, self-serving prick..

If Suarez owes anyone it's Dalglish. While there's any grey area, the fans will back the player - especially when United are the other party - but Kenny risked a lot by backing him so publicly when the rest of the football world had decided this was an open-and-shut case of a diving, biting, hand-balling cheat being found out as the racist foreigner he so clearly was. If Kenny was still manager, I'd be joining in with everyone else with the disloyalty shouts.