10:28am Thursday 18th March 2010
LIVERPOOL goalkeeper Jose Reina has echoed teammate Fernando Torres’ calls for significant investment in players to make the club title challengers again.
At the weekend, in an interview with the Spanish press, Torres said the club needed to sign four or five quality players.
He intimated a failure to do so could be interpreted as a lack of ambition and may lead to him considering his long-term future.
Although Reina feels similarly about the need to progress he has no qualms about committing his own long-term future to the club.
Asked how long it could be before Liverpool would have a realistic chance of winning the Premier League the Spain international said: ‘‘It is not a question I can answer. I can talk about the players but not the investment – that is not in our hands.
‘‘But I hope we can compete with these kinds of transfers (by Manchester United and Chelsea) and spend some more money in the market, maybe go toe-totoe with them.
‘‘All I want and the team want is to be as competitive as the others.
‘‘There is nothing apart from winning the league with Liverpool once which makes me feel excited.”
Reina’s immediate future involves keeping a clean sheet at home to Lille tonight as Liverpool try to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit from their Europa League last-16 tie.
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