New Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet has welcomed the 'positive' challenge of competing with Brad Jones and Pepe Reina to be first choice between the posts at Anfield.

The Belgian international switched to the Reds from Sunderland last month to swell the 'keeping options available to manager Brendan Rodgers for 2013-14.

Reina has been the club's undisputed No.1 stopper since arriving in 2005, and Mignolet believes the task of displacing the Spaniard will only help him to improve.

"That's always what has happened when there's competition," the 25-year-old told ESPN FC. "I've had competition in Sunderland and in Belgium with the national team.

"It's not only Pepe - there's a lot of good goalies at Liverpool, like Brad Jones for example - and it's not only the position of the goalie where there is competition. It's every single position on the field.

"There are only 11 players who can play and it is something that is normal with being a football player. You have to deal with that. Competition can only make you as an individual better and let you perform better. It can only be a positive thing."

Rodgers' team kick off their Barclays Premier League campaign at home to Stoke in six weeks' time; Mignolet has been impressed by the rapid transfer business already conducted.

"From the talks I had with the manager and the goalkeeping coach I felt they were very ambitious and the club wants to get forward," the No.22 continued.

"The signings they'd already done before July showed they really wanted to get going. They want to push on again in the Premier League. It was obvious that they are an ambitious club and a big club.

"I know how big a club this is but I think I'm only going to feel it once the games get going. The first few training sessions went okay. I'm very happy to be here and train."

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