Karius to besiktas
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Two year loan apparently
See ya.
Auf wiedersehen
Doubt he'll manage to even catch the flight.
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has explained criticism of Loris Karius at the end of last season almost saw him reject the chance to sign Alisson.
Karius spent last season as the no.1, having dislodged Simon Mignolet, but ended the campaign with two costly errors in the Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid.
However, Klopp said the Real Madrid game was not the reason Alisson was signed, who joined from Roma in a £67million deal.
“I didn’t tell Loris what he wanted to hear, but how it is,” he explained in an interview with German magazine Kicker.
“The Champions League final had nothing to do with us getting Alisson. Even if he had won it and Alisson would have been on the market we would have still signed him.
“And how the people reacted negatively to Karius after the final, by trying to isolate him, that almost made me not sign Alisson and rather stick it out with Karius. But we had to be professional, our job is to have the best players on every position.”
It was also put to Klopp whether the mistakes had a serious effect on him, which was rubbished by the manager.
“There are worse things in the world, you should never forget that. We are talking about a luxury problem here. Who the no.1 is might be decisive for some. But it isn’t everything.”
He also brushed aside the fuss which has been made over some of his mistakes during pre-season against Borussia Dortmund and Tranmere, which Klopp insisted was the place to make them, considering everyone is still working on getting their fitness back to what is was in order to compete for 90 minutes every week.
“Out-field players make tons of mistakes. Loris has to continue to work hard.
“Loris is now 25, at an age, in which keepers keep improving. All the best keepers make mistake, but sometimes timing is important in life. If Loris makes a mistake now, it isn’t cool. In eight years nobody will care. We are totally happy with him.
“We simply identified another keeper, who is better, and signed him.”
Karius spent last season as the no.1, having dislodged Simon Mignolet, but ended the campaign with two costly errors in the Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid.
However, Klopp said the Real Madrid game was not the reason Alisson was signed, who joined from Roma in a £67million deal.
“I didn’t tell Loris what he wanted to hear, but how it is,” he explained in an interview with German magazine Kicker.
“The Champions League final had nothing to do with us getting Alisson. Even if he had won it and Alisson would have been on the market we would have still signed him.
“And how the people reacted negatively to Karius after the final, by trying to isolate him, that almost made me not sign Alisson and rather stick it out with Karius. But we had to be professional, our job is to have the best players on every position.”
It was also put to Klopp whether the mistakes had a serious effect on him, which was rubbished by the manager.
“There are worse things in the world, you should never forget that. We are talking about a luxury problem here. Who the no.1 is might be decisive for some. But it isn’t everything.”
He also brushed aside the fuss which has been made over some of his mistakes during pre-season against Borussia Dortmund and Tranmere, which Klopp insisted was the place to make them, considering everyone is still working on getting their fitness back to what is was in order to compete for 90 minutes every week.
“Out-field players make tons of mistakes. Loris has to continue to work hard.
“Loris is now 25, at an age, in which keepers keep improving. All the best keepers make mistake, but sometimes timing is important in life. If Loris makes a mistake now, it isn’t cool. In eight years nobody will care. We are totally happy with him.
“We simply identified another keeper, who is better, and signed him.”
I really hope Karius rebuilds his career ... he's not a bad goalie, and he'll hopefully do enough to get himself to a bigger club in the Bundesliga or La Liga ... wish him luck.
Agree. All the luck to the guy. I like him. Kept that shot out when I had my Spurs fan Father at the Kop. Cool. That is what football is about.
In what way is it strange? Hes broken and needs a fresh start. No one, NO ONE will pay big for him right now.
I think it would be stupid to sell him now as his value is at a low point. He is a decent shot-stopper with excellent sweeper-keeper ability and good amount of experience (even though some of it was highly traumatic experience) for a young player. If he goes on loan for a year somewhere in Germany, we could fetch a lot more for him next summer.
He's proper shit. We might get some magic beans for him.
Ha, I thought that too. None of this 'he brings interesting aspects to our play' carry on, just 'you're shit by comparison so do one'.
besiktas fans clearly didn't watch the CL final.
Their fans are proper mental - on a level I've never seen (I lived there as a kid when they had 2 English lads, one was Walsh I think).
It may do him the world of good, as long as he plays well ... if he fucks up, heaven help him.
That's a given then, he's fucked. Seriously it'll be good for him to get away and just play football with out the CL cloud hanging over him has he stayed in the UK
Yah, economy is in a bad place and Erodgan is about to become leader 4 life, but he'll be away from that ... living with the expats in Stanbul etc
My understanding is he signed for us for four years so his contract runs out in two years. If true then no final fee just the loan fee and, hopefully, no wages.
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I think it's telling that his leaving thread has only two pages.
Good bye and...erm...no, that's it. Goodbye.
Good bye and...erm...no, that's it. Goodbye.
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