Alonso convinced Reina to sign

Last updated : 12 July 2005 By Adam Bryant

The two are close friends and the Liverpool midfielder was asked about life in Liverpool.

"I'm quite close to Xabi," said Reina. "We became good friends in the national side.

"I was asking him loads of things about the place and he was talling me everything about it and it was all really positive.

"It made me really keen to come here - I was dying to come here in fact - and it's all true what he said about the place."