Simon Mignolet

[ashey]

He's not nasty enough. Fletcher blocked him at every corner yesterday. He should have either called one of our players over to stop Fletcher blocking him, or jumped straight into the fooker with his knee in his back to let him know he wouldn't take any ****. If he's gonna come for every ball (as per Klopp's post game interview), he needs to clean everybody out (including our own players), to get to the ball first.

[Maxiedge]

He's not nasty enough. Fletcher blocked him at every corner yesterday. He should have either called one of our players over to stop Fletcher blocking him, or jumped straight into the fooker with his knee in his back to let him know he wouldn't take any ****. If he's gonna come for every ball (as per Klopp's post game interview), he needs to clean everybody out (including our own players), to get to the ball first.

Yep agreed.

We'll improve so much once he's replaced.

[Fosterbloke]

He should have either called one of our players over to stop Fletcher blocking him, or jumped straight into the fooker with his knee in his back to let him know he wouldn't take any ****. If he's gonna come for every ball (as per Klopp's post game interview), he needs to clean everybody out (including our own players), to get to the ball first.

'Ave that you cunt -

[marcus50bucks]

So, in the past two PL games we’ve allowed three shots on target and conceded four goals. But at least Mignolet’s a great shot-stopper, with that 0% save percentage.

I guess that’s harsh, given the purposefully-small sample. But on the season as a whole he’s got a 59% save percentage, a full 10% behind the PL average of 69% and joint-bottom in the league among regular starters. We're bottom of the league in saves made and second-bottom of the league in save percentage. Given all this, it's fair to say that Mignolet's shot-stopping is the worst in the league right now, or at least among the worst two or three.

And that’s the thing he’s good at.

I guess you could argue that he actually is a good shot-stopper, but he's just not showing it because we hardly allow any shots (third-best in the PL) and hardly allow any shots on target (fewest shots on target allowed in the league, if you can believe that), so it gets skewed by a small sample size. But that’s exactly my point: shot-stopping is overrated in a goalkeeper due to its randomness, especially if you've got a really good defence (because then he's rarely tested). Which, contrary to conventional wisdom, we do. So the only thing Mignolet's (supposedly) good at is the one thing he rarely does, with a small enough sample size that it gets completely washed by noise anyway. What good is it having a world-class shot stopper if, through half a season, he gives you the same production you could expect from literally the worst shot-stopper in the league?

Note, by the way, that there's a flipside to this: given the random nature of shot-stopping, if Mig keeps getting picked he'll go on a tear at some point. He'll have a few stormers, save a few worldies, and everyone's going to say he's back to his best and a really good shot-stopper and we should keep him. No. We shouldn't. Because that's unsustainable and before long you end up back here, with an average, flapping keeper with below-average distribution and one skill at the thing he's least asked to do, which is also heavily random and therefore nearly useless.

Klopp seems determined to salvage whatever he can from the current squad, bless him, and maybe he'll keep waiting it out with Mignolet to see if he can't squeeze some form out of him, because despite how **** I think he is, he's not this bad and that storming form is coming, unless he gets too far inside his own head again. But sooner or later he has to be replaced. For all the hand-wringing about Benteke and the midfield, Mignolet is by far the weakest link of the squad.

Timo Horn's got a £6.5m release clause. Just do it and be done with the whole thing.

Cracking post

[Buzzo]

Fletcher took Mignolet out of the game on the second goal so easily it was embarassing. We need a keeper who is more streetwise.

[baitman]

Simon Luc Hildebert Mignolet... bullied at school, bullied in the premier league.

[Big-Red-Ed]

I dont think you can teach a keeper to command his box. It's a kind of primal alpha male type thing. Mig will never have it. We need a change. A commanding keeper will help out our entire back 4 all of whom have their own issues!!

[Shaggy]

[RichC]

A bit touchy there !

[dizzycat]

I still get the feeling that a lot of people would prefer someone else between the sticks...

[Fivex]

If he didn't have the frequent brain farts the argument against him would be much thinner. Unfortunately he has a habit of dropping bollocks which immediately lead to 2 or 3 more near ****ups due to the resulting nervous energy bouncing between the crowd and players.

Maybe it'll improve but I do think we need a more confident & commanding no.1, clean sheets don't tell the full story.

[TheElephantMan]

I wanted Bogdan to be given a chance ahead of Mignolet, that worked out well! Mignolet isn't a terrible keeper, but if there is better available then we should definitely look to replace him. It's not enough to be a good shot-stopper. A goalkeeper is a footballer and should be able to play football.

[gratziani]

We have had Mignolet for three seasons now and I don't think he has proved himself to be a keeper for the very top.

I see what Cech has brought to Arsenal and it seems to make a massive difference and United would be even worse if De Gea wasn't there.

Deffo a position we need to improve on for me.

[Bender]

[ame]https://twitter.com/lfc_no10/status/682875369817534464[/ame]

[G]

Christ.