Liverpool have confirmed Simon Mignolet has put pen to paper on a new five-year deal keeping him at the club until 2021.
Mignolet’s future at Anfield has been in question ever since he joined Liverpool in 2013 but Jurgen Klopp has been very vocal in his support of his number No.1 shot stopper ever since he replaced Brendan Rodgers.
The Belgium international still had three years left to run on his previous deal but Liverpool have moved to secure his long-term future and quash further speculation.
“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 told the club’s official website.
“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’.
“I know with a long-term contract, you get more responsibility – and I want to take up that role because I’m the sort of character that wants to be a leader, wants to speak in the dressing room and wants to help the defence.
“I’ll try to work hard together with the goalkeeping coach and staff here, who are behind me and have given their confidence with a new contract. I would like to thank them for that – but you can’t really do that with words, you have to do that with performances on the pitch. And that’s what I’ll try to show.”
Since joining Liverpool, no player has made more errors that have directly led to a goal than Mignolet in the Premier League (8).
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