OPINION
Every second string footballer faces a dilemma at some point or other in their career.
Should they, knowing full well that they only have a decade and a half in the professional game perhaps, while away their hours on the bench, lining their pockets with exorbitant amounts of cash?
Or, based on the fact that they only have a finite amount of time in the sport, do they move somewhere else, play more often, and hope that they are remembered as somebody who contributed to a club?
Simon Mignolet finds himself in exactly that position right now.
The Belgian stopper is very much the deputy to Liverpool number one Alisson Becker, and it looked for all the world as if he could be on his way out of Anfield this summer, as reported by the Evening Standard.
But now, however, Jurgen Klopp seems fairly certain that the keeper will be staying put this summer, as reported by the Echo.
According to the German, a club the size of Liverpool needs two number ones, and he clearly sees Mignolet as the second of those.
But from the player’s perspective, an exit surely makes a lot more sense.
Mignolet is 31 now, and his time at the top won’t go on forever. It would be far better for him to go to a club where he is essentially guaranteed game time, and see out his career in an environment that allows him to play as much as possible before he hangs up his gloves.
The 6’4″ giant [Transfermarkt] is never displacing Alisson as number one on Merseyside, and as long as he stays put, he will be nothing more than a benchwarmer.
Klopp’s confidence in him is nice, but he must leave this summer.
