Pepe Reina

[CJ]

According to the offal, John Achterberg (GK coach) is still here.

I thought he had gone

[Phoenix07]

I thought he had gone

Same here. Everyone but Achterberg has been removed from the site who isn't supposed to be there.

[CJ]

Must still be there.

Pepe clearly does much better when valero is here

Unless BR wants vorm next season

[kev776]

Pepe doesn't need coaching, he needs motivation. Bring in a decent back-up goalkeeper to actually challenge him and he will get his hunger back.

[CJ]

I think it is coaching. There may be a hunger issue too but good coaching makes a huge difference

[Pablo]

Every keeper needs coaching, it's naive to think otherwise.

[Lee]

Yeah Achterberg is still here, saw him in our dugout yesterday.

We do need to look at the situation though, I don't know what's wrong with Pepe at the moment, well, over the last season or two.

[yamiedo]

PRobably just losing his appetite or concentration.

[Kenneth]

It's an issue. He used to be one of the best around, now he's meh.

[Trippendicular]

I thought he was very good under pressure with the ball at his feet. There were a handful or hospital passes and he dealt with them all well. He's a great keeper to play in our new system, and hopefully once we've mastered it we'll be restricting the number of shots/crosses he has to deal with, thus nullifying his weaknesses.

[Buzzo]

He could definitely do with being put under pressure by a decent number 2 (!!!).

His place is pretty much guaranteed as we have no back up and subconciously perhaps that results in him being a bit too relaxed about his position within the team.

[Red_Polo]

Yeah I think he's too comfortable. A bit like Alonso was getting before the Barry saga.

[Rich]

He needs to step it back up otherwise we need to think about a replacement.

[BobTheCharmer]

I thought he was very good under pressure with the ball at his feet. There were a handful or hospital passes and he dealt with them all well. He's a great keeper to play in our new system, and hopefully once we've mastered it we'll be restricting the number of shots/crosses he has to deal with, thus nullifying his weaknesses.

those being the goalkeeping attributes of saving shots and catching crosses? so the idea is to have a system whereby he doesn't need to worry about anything but playing as a sweeper? Mmmmm modern football is bizarre.

[-V-]

He was solid against Hearts and even though he probably shouldn't have came off his line for that cross yesterday I don't think it would have been a problem if Skrtle hadn't glanced it.

Pepe will have a great season, he knows he needs to step it up and Im confident he will