Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Simon Mignolet - Get rid of him?

Simon Mignolet had a dream debut for the club at the beginning of last season, but after a string of high profile errors and only 11 clean sheets in 50 appearances in the Premier League is appalling. There is no doubt that he is an excellent shot stopper he can pull of some amazing saves on his day, which makes me wonder why is he picking the ball out of the net almost every game?

He has never really impressed me, he had a great start to his Liverpool career in the first three games he made at least one game saving save. However he doesn't seem to be cutting it and I think it might be time to start looking elsewhere. There are rumours of Victor Valdes signing as a free agent in the next couple of weeks, I know it's only a rumour but for the love of god please make this happen as I can't bare watching Mignolet make mistake after                                                                                   mistake.
I absolutely despise Gary Neville as I do all mancs, but he has never been more spot on when he noticed Mignolet's bad habit. He has noticed that Mignolet bends his knees too far down so he is closer to the floor than to the bar. This is something that makes his ability to save the top corner shots very, very difficult. Add this to the long list of errors that Mignolet performs game in game out and one that i'm sure every fan has noticed is his positioning. Already this season it has cost us, most noticeably Aguero's goal in the 3-1 defeat to city and the goal that Ludogorets scored in the Champions League.

I also picked up on Jamie Carragher said something that myself and i'm not surprised if anyone else failed to notice. Obviously there severe disappointment of missing out on the league title last year and this is blamed on Gerrard's slip in the 2-0 defeat to Chelsea at Anfield. But as Carragher said Demba Ba picked up the ball on the half way line, he still has 50 yards to run before he has to shoot. Of course the situation wasn't ideal and he was put in a horrible position but those are the moments where you want to see the palm of the keeper's hand smack the ball away from the goal and win the league. At Sunderland, Mignolet made his name for his big presence and saves in one on one situations but since his move this ability has deteriorated. He is not the player that Liverpool forked out £11m on so personally, I think we should cut our losses, part ways and then sign a player that actually has Champions League experience.

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