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normally reliable , there no doubt many will be sad he left or leaving and much blame is getting thrown around , it just seems very strange first time he has genuine competition and he has jumped , only a couple of weeks ago he was saying he was happy at LFC and rodgers said him and pepe discussed competition and reina was all for it , just a bit strange .

Yeah maybe! But it sounds legit, I'm sure we'll know more by the morning.

££££ Its all about the wonga these days.

Will he get more money at Napoli though?

I haven't read through the comments so apologies if this has already been hashed out but why the hell are we loaning out Reina to a club who have just received £55million? If Reina is leaving we should be looking to capitalize. I guess he's just holding on until Victor Valdes leaves Barcelona.

yeh certainly is but he was on very decent pay at LFC , look he has been a top keeper but gone off the boil big time over the last two to three seasons , the spanish clubs havent made a move for him benitez makes an enquiry through reina's agent napoli are not prepared to buy him even though they have funds , just seems very strange when to all soundbites from all sides competition coming in was welcomed and rightly so , but first time of that he is away .

if true, what the hell are we doing? surely if we want him out we should sell him and spend that money on another player

All this talk of Reina not wanting competition is bs.

It stinks of yet more cost cutting and moneyball tactics by FSG.

Yet people still pretend we have a war chest to buy players. Mignolet's wages + Gerrard's new contract = Reina.

Downing, Johnson, Enrique, Henderson and Suarez are the highest earners left, they will all be on red alert.

interesting view that could be right , but as i said earlier its very easy to blame the owners over this .

But how can it be cost-cutting? Buying Mignolet and loaning out Reina does 2 things. We save £5m off our salary budget for the year ahead, add £2.5-3m for Mignolet's salary, and add on his £10m move. The deal has cost the club £7.5-8m this season. The club would save £2m, if Reina left for free next season, and Mignolet saw out his 5 years... Is FSG were in it for the money, this would not have been considered.

As for the other players, all I will say is that it makes sense to move on high-value contracted players who are not justifying their salary with their worth to the team. Suarez potentially leaving has nothing to do with FSG! Johnson and Enrique are first choices. Unless equal/better players are brought in at full-back positions, they won't leave. Henderson and Downing could move, but I suspect the latter is the only likely out of the 5 you mention.

There is an article about the transition of FSGs money-ball ambitions into football. I am going to try and update it from the 2011 figures and post that at the same time. I have my own mini-investigation on the go in terms of whether spending big money, in the PL over the last 16 years, actually brings about better success.