Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet is certainly “much maligned.” It comes with the territory when you’re the #1 at a giant club known worldwide. It’s why you get paid the big bucks, to take the heat. Today it was announced that Simon Mignolet will be getting more of those big bucks, and for a long time.
In other words Mignolet haters, you now have more grist for your mill.
“I’m very pleased that I can be at Anfield and a part of Liverpool for a long future. I’m happy to commit my future to LFC,” Mignolet, 27, told Liverpoolfc.com
“I know signing a new contract comes with new responsibility. I’m getting older as well and coming into the years where people would say those are the years a ‘keeper is at his best.”
Liverpool Manager Jurgen Klopp is a big believer in Simon Mignolet, who has actually recorded more clean sheets than anyone in the Premier League in 2015. You’d think it’s Petr Cech who holds that distinction, but it’s really Mignolet.
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