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asajoseph said:Hmmm, I guess the nuance was missed anyway - 'we should make a play for Reina' isn't quite the same as 'we should have already signed Reina'.
Liverpool have big financial obligations, and no CL football next year. The focus is on Gerrard and Torres, obviously, but if we have cash to spend, we should be 'making a play' for Reina.
"A serious play" as you called it, suggests more than offering some money in secret and then accepting the inevitable rebuttal.
But whatever your nuance was supposed to be, it doesn't make a difference to what I said. My pioint was that we haven't 'made a play' because he isn't for sale, you replied that there is no such thing as 'not for sale' to which I re-affirmed my initial comment with some details as to why there is.
Transfers don't just happen because a club decides to make a bid; the buying club are almost always enticed into making the bid by a suggestion that the player is looking for a move (usually relayed through their agent and then via the necessary channels).