Another Piece Falls Into Place For Liverpool’s Resurgence?

This worrying lack of alternatives would have concerned Dalglish up until the point of Reina’s u-turn, and maybe the goalkeeper’s ambition to stay is the final piece in Liverpool’s resurgent jigsaw. Fortunately, the club were able to immediately buffer the departure of Torres with the arrivals of Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez, and have found in Raul Miereles a decent enough replacement for Javier Mascherano, who left for Barcelona not long after the beginning of the season. But had Reina supported his original plan to leave, Liverpool would have been left with a colossal hole to fill in between the posts, in a market where Manchester United and Arsenal are also searching for goalkeeping solutions.

It is worth mentioning that Reina at no point suggested his desire to leave was motivated by anything other than Liverpool’s perceived lack of ambition, a concern he was more than justified to express. However, it seems like Kenny Dalglish’s influence has convinced Reina of Liverpool’s future objectives seeing as under the Scotsman’s leadership, the team has emerged from the bottom half of the table to be challenging for European qualification. His commitment to Liverpool in now unquestionable and will prove to be one of the most important features in the club’s rehabilitation, behind the signing of Dalglish’s full-time contract.

The article was written by Josh Sheridan for FootballFancast.com. Make sure to check out the latest news, blogs and podcasts at FFC – ed.

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