The Reason Why I LEFT Liverpool...
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Former Belgium and Liverpool player who currently plays in goal for Club Brugge, Simon Mignolet joins us on the Fozcast this week! In this clip, we are heading back to the time Simon played for Liverpool when Jurgen Klopp joined and how getting replaced by Loris Karius and then Alisson Becker ultimately saw him leave the Reds...
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Mignolet is a great and loyal servant to the club. Even after Alisson's arrival which confined him to the bench, Klopp praised his professionalism which speaks volume of his character, alongside Lallana and Milner. Unfortunately, things didn't work out well for him at LFC as we would've hope, but at least he got to leave us as a European champion. Glad he found success at his new club Brugge and let's all wish him and Brugge the very best against City in their final CL group stage match. YNWA
"thanks to Alisson I learned spanish" This says it all about Simon's mentality !
@Smashinfinity Yup precisely. All the more, that earns my respect for Simon Mignolet. While his performance may not hit our expectations, his personality and commitment earns my respect. He is just unlucky that much of his LFC career is played in the pre-VVD era, where he has little reliable protection from our defense and that may have affected his confidence to some extent. However, his recognition that Alisson is a better keeper than him and being "willing to stay on bench for the Brazilian" really shows how down-to-earth and humble he is as our LFC footballer and person. While he may not be among our best GK, I fully respect him and I feel that he deserves a rousing ovation from our Anfield crowd and recognition from the club for the meritorious service he had given to Alisson and our whole squad. I hope he'll get a rousing welcome back to Anfield sometime in future should we play Brugge in the CL. He deserves the reconition from our LFC fans. Glad to see Mignolet excel and win league titles with Brugge.
YNWA Mignolet
Nicely said chief.
Great shot stopper, that pen save on the first day of the season against Stoke was incredible.
Shame about you know... Everything else. Worst 1st team keeper I can ever remember. Cost us the league in 13/14... So many unnecessary errors.
@ he isn’t the worst imo that’s harsh. The defence cost us the league that year. It was Suarez FC. Karius was definitely worse.
@ I agree Mignolet made some errors, but to label him worst is too harsh. Let's not forget he played in the pre-VVD era when our defense was shaky and unreliable, which may have affected his confidence and command of his box to some extent. We won't know if Alisson can perform as well as he is doing now if he was afforded the sluggish defensive services Mignolet used to get in the pre-Klopp era. So let's not bash Mignolet this way. It will be too unfair to him. He has been our wonderful and loyal man. YNWA
I remember watching Manchester City v Sunderland at home think beat them 5-0 or something but if wasn't for him it would've been 10-0 very underrated goalie!
I knew Mignolet was a keeper who dwelled in decisions after his first error for Liverpool, i believe that was his biggest drawback when it came to be a GK. They way Liverpool have always played a GK mistake is a given, and we needed GK who can move past it in a instant.
The positive aspect to that , he is a really intelligent human.
Didn't Mignolet's wife even say as much. Told him not to get stuck in his own head so much.
I think at times the problem was his intelligence where you just needed impulse, you could see him overthinking and then rushing because of it. Still a great servant to the club though.
Great shot stopper but had one big mistake in him per game.
I think he comes across really well there. He was a really decent goalkeeper for the Reds. Yes, Alisson is better but it’s nice to hear someone being calm and classy when talking about leaving Anfield and I’m glad his career has continued to work out for him. ⚽️❤️
He wasn't good enough constantly making mistakes that cost Liverpool games.
He’s a lovely bloke but no lol. He was not a really decent keeper for them.
He wasn’t decent at all
Innit!!! Big respect
People speaking badly against him. He is the reason Club Brugge have performed well in the UCL this season
Fairly sure he won the golden glove for Brugge a couple of seasons after he went back. He’s had incredible games for them and is a class goal keeper that didn’t suit Klopps philosophy, people speak ill of him but he made some crazy saves and had a great rate at penalty saves too. He’s helped us transition and is a former player I still like.
Brugge is not Liverpool is it? Their levels of expectation are worlds apart
@@acejay1 Talking like the Belgium farmers league is one big boys 😂
One thing about Mignolet I've always loved was his intelligence even he knew he was a better keeper than Karius but understood it was Klopps choice
Acc don’t think at the time he was the better keeper. Karius was solid up untill that CL final and then was never the same.
Simon was a better shot stopper but only okay with his feet.
Karius was better with his feet, but dodgy decision-wise (even before the meltdown).
@joeutm212 on the whole he probably was, but Karius was on the up and much younger.
But the sentiment you expressed is right people massively underplay Karius' ability before that final
@@mch-gaming1437 yeh before that game i was expecting him to have a fairly bright future, pretty sure he wa only 23 at the time
@joeutm212 Karius was shaky since day 1 mignonlet is a good shot stopper.I cant name 1 thing that Karius is good at
Great shot stopper, great at saving pens too, but always thought mentally he didnt have what he needed to be to be a TOP keeper for us. Glad hes setlled and found a club where he can be the no.1
His attitude is/was amazing. And this shows it really well. Pragmatic and hard working.
Boss shot stopper
Shite distribution
The amount of balls he kicked into touch was incredible
Klopp needed a keeper who could be like a extra defender and have high level distribution why he sanctioned a nearly 70m fee for a keeper the rest is history 👌🏻
He was still better than Karius
Alisson has had bad distribution this season (2024/2025)
His injuries have affected him unfortunately (Ali) I think the club recognised this why we have bought a new keeper he is still one of the best but Alison Becker is not as affective with his feet this season i completely agree 👍🏻 mignolet was a very good keeper for a certain system I werent critical of his overall ability just his distribution really what cost him his career under klopp.
@@JohnKarayiannis-hb2xv no karius was was starting to keep him out of the team
I wish we would have rather played the final with Simon in goal
Always knew he was a good lad, very respectable and carries himself well.
Migs was such a good servant to the club. Loyal and a great professional ALWAYS. Ill never forget his debut and I couldnt have been happier for him to get a UCL medal with us, he fully deserved it after all he'd given.
Class and professionalism. Mignolet is a top lad. YNWA
Simon Mignolet Legend❤. I remember he save Benteke Striker Liverpool vs Aston Villa. What a save..🎉🎉🎉
he was a great keeper for Liverpool, better than Karius, but yeah Ali is on the different level.
@danitradess well said. I'm glad they brought in Alisson to replace Karius
He was average at best.
Bang average keeper, second only to James as the worst long-term keeper LFC had in the prem era.
Great keeper! Wtf. That's some serious revisionist history! Worst first team long term goalie I can ever remember for Liverpool. Cost us the 13/14 title because of his ridiculous mistakes week in week out. He's not even average.
@andrewbarbarash3116 He was hopeless but James was at another level of shite.
Hey Ben as a goalkeeper podcast I’d love to see Karius on this , it be interesting goalkeeper to goalkeeper to talk about it especially as he was one of the best keepers in Germany to moving to Liverpool. People forget that he actually was having a good season bar 2 games Bournemouth and Madrid. I’d love to see it
Yes... spot on Karius was doing the job in an inconsistent Liverpool team. Only those two games was he not upto par.
Definitely didn’t help him having the centre backs he had in front of him, Mignolet had the diving and reaction capabilities of a top top keeper but his decision making and positioning always let him down, i can’t remember how many times he’d come out for a cross and get nowhere near the ball then we’d concede
Yeah his only weakness in shot stopping was definitely his positioning.
That's the thing I expected him to mention about Alisson. Alisson's explosiveness, his jump - how often do we see it? Not that often, because his positioning is immaculate. Migs had some insane shot stopping on his day, possibly even more than Ali, but his positioning (and consistency) not being consistently good let him down. And then there's Ali's one v ones, he's the best there's ever been at them. Migs is right to say he could have benefited from having VVD and Matip at CB, but it wouldn't have got him past Ali, regardless of the fee he came for.
Nah this is proof you didn't watch Mignolet play, constant mistakes which cost the team week in week out.
@@paulie-g true and he’s probably tryna make the argument that he should’ve started over karius and if he did they might’ve won the UCL who knows but karius was solid, not top class but for 6 months it’s not like we were desperate for a new keeper and maybe without that UCL final we’d of kept him as number 1 but the club saw no coming back from that and had the coutinho money to spend on the best keeper around
@@Ruscococo1 his mistakes were always to do with positioning tho like if he was positioned well he could make top class saves but he tended to leave a bigger gap one side making it easy for the forward or he’d come out too early or come out for crosses he couldn’t get. My argument is that his basic diving and reaction saves were great but u need more than that
Thank you for your service for us, Migs.
our goalie legend, huge club brugge fan, all the love to you simon.
Great interview, he speaks really well
I am absolutely the generally positive sentiment about mignolet’s character in as much as there’s some criticism about his ability/performances/mentality. Really positive to see!
Always a good shot stopper and I never really understood why we picked Karius ahead of him. Glad he got a medal for the UCL win
It was about distribution of the ball which klopp highly valued. Mingo was a great player but was very slow releasing the ball
Karius really fast to give the ball to Benzema
Mignolet is like the goalkeeper version of nunez, save difficult shot but let in easy ball.
I still remember how he always punch the ball away bacause we didn't have a proper defender who dominant in the air like virgil. 😅
He now gets to chill in Brugge. Much better!
I remember that penalty save on his debut thought going be one of the greats for Liverpool watching that save . Unfortunately didn’t work out
Mignolet was a top pro keeper. Gave his all
No he was not… Allison is way, way, way better…
Top pro means top professional. Not a future legendary player.
He was always better then karius. Tho u gotta try to do a interview with karius
Who knows what would have been him in goal against Real
Maybe liverpool won or got beaten 5-1
Liverpool would win
Melbourne 2013 lfc pre season tour and mignolet had just signed with us...there was mignolet minding his business shopping and walking down the street from the team hotel...I think my mate and I where the first people to recognise him and he was happy to be photographed with us..good times before what would be a cracking year
One thing Klopp regret doing while in liverpool puting Kairus ahead of Mignolet
Mignolet was absolutely terrible. He had to drop him. Karius was doing better that season
@@dionb7584just not true at all LOL
did he told you that?
@@dionb7584 NEVER MIGNOLET WAS LESS ERROR GOAL KEEPER THAN KARIUS
@Bikkufootballtalks Mignolet was still shit and still was playing worse than Karius that season
Let's be honest him and karias were both shit, they not in the same league as the 3 we have now, respectful guy though
Karius is the shittest goalie ever,mignolet is a good shot stopper ,saved couple penalties as well
Karius was simply not good enough,migs was good enough for what we were then, but prone to dumb mistakes
Nah migs did a lot of dumb shit was never confident with him in goals
No, Mignolet was never 'shit'. Top shot-stopper, but had consistency issues not helped by the defence in front of him and the playstyle. Absolutely a CL-level keeper, as he's shown with Brugge (and his numbers with us), just not world-class like Ali is (few are).
If we had Migs in goal during champions league final we would have won
Allegiance aside, this interview was incredible. Having a lesser but well spoken name is a breath of fresh air! Nobody wants to constantly hear from the same people every week all over UA-cam. Be different, give the lesser names a chance to chance. Well done!
Signing Simon was never an issue. Putting him as No1 almost immediately and dethroning Reina was. He was, at the time, never a No1 for a club of Liverpool's stature and ambitions. Having said that, placing him behind Loris was an even bigger blunder...Loris was just not a Premier League level keeper.
I do however like Simon and i respect him immensely as a professional...he conducted himself with dignity and I'm happy that things worked out for him.
Bro has a scouse accent when he says "career".
That's his Flemish coming through
And when he said "final" 2:20
Such a great keeper I remember Liverpool vs real Madrid then line up I did I started in late
YNWA Mings, thanks for all you did ❤
He was better than Karius and shud have played the champions league final. Going into that game i was nervous Karius will struggle and he really did big time.
That final might have gone differently if Mignolet was in goal
One of the best keeper at saving pens,
One of Klopp's greatest mistakes as manager.
If Klopp didn't choose Karius over Migs , Liverpool would have won the European Cup that season.
By knock-out stages it was so obvious Karius was way out of his depth at that level..
Oftern forgotten with Mignolet is that both Brad Jones and Loris Karius ended up replacing Mignolet for good bits of time as 1st team keeper. But a really good keeper regardless.
Mignolet over Karius only.
Both were shite
Need to get reina on for a chat! That would be fun
I felt like Mignolet and Moreno both played much better with Van Dijk, but are only judged by how they played without them.
everyone can play good around him. he is literally one of the greatest in his position. mignolet wasnt it
any defender or keeper would be better with van dijk in their team tho, like how many times would they of made a mistake then van dijk would make it up for them? it’s like how konate covers for trent loads in this system, van dijk did the same for moreno
@@timmy5876 thats kinda my point. How much better did/would Moreno been with VVD? I think Milner woulda been happier without being the backup LB on top of all his other duties haha.
@@mathiasgulliksen7414 course he wasnt ‘it’, but he was a good shot stopper and it seems folks think he was a bad keeper, he wasnt.
@ moreno was a decent dribbler but other than that he didn’t have much at all, milner was the backup left back to robertson when moreno left but tbh i preferred him there cus trent was also down the right side so we needed someone better defensively down the left side like milner. Milner also had a hell of a cross on him and top work rate so he was in a way a worse version of robertson in every way lol. Milner was a top midfielder for a few years for us but we didn’t necessarily need him to start games so moreno leaving wasn’t an issue, like we never had to start anyone bad in midfield
Very intelligent and respectful to his former club. #YNWA
Can’t overegg the compliments because he’s a nice bloke, which he is. Very good keeper to have made it to an elite premier league level but NOWHERE NEAR the level to deliver titles.
I don't like to downplay player careers because they go through a lot of pressure. But before Alisson, mignolet was very bad but showed moments of brilliance. Watching him i knew Liverpool can't move forward having him as a goalkeeper.
Should have been in goal for the Champions league final. There were major signs that Karius was prone to mistakes and wasn’t to Liverpool’s level. Klopps stubborness was his downfall and will haunt him and Karius for the rest of their lives.
For me JK biggest mistake was trusting Karius I never got it myself. Migs was in good nick and was the more experienced GK at the time. Obviously worked out because of Ali but ultimately cost us a CL.
He left because he wasn't good enough for to be the number 1 at a top PL team. He was great at Sunderland and worked as a bridge player from Reina to Alisson (With ofc a short bump named Karius) but he was never someone you could truly depend upon. He had some great and amazing saves and good games but they always came with the fear of a screw up that always came at some point. He most certainly was good enough to play in the PL for a lower mid team and could look like a star.... He just wasn't more than that but he made the most of it and almost won the PL in 13/14. He's a good guy though and was a great number 2 for Belgium.
One of the few mistakes Klopp made in my eyes was putting Karius over this man, Mignolet was never the worse keeper between the two, Klopp was just being overly optimistic with a young talent from his country and former team.
You can argue neither was top-level level but Karius was woeful the whole time he started, Mignolet at least had the basics more covered, had more experience and saved tons of pens.
If Mignolet started in the 2018 final we actually might of won it. But what doesn’t make sense for me is that even before the final Karius was still making bad mistakes. So it just didn’t understand why would he not switch to a keeper you you think is confident in the goal
It was always a pleasure for opposing players to play against Simon. He was always generous at the front post... And back post, plus right down the middle.
I always rated Mignolet, he was a great shot stopper but a bit poor on aerial. Nonetheless, he was on a different class when Klopp joined.
Say what you want about Mignolet - he was clutch in a penalty shoot-out. Many times I felt confident with him in goal when it was 1 on 1.
LFC "fans" hating in the comments, show some class. He was a top professional for 9 years at the club and even after finding success elsewhere has absolutely nothing bad to say about the club. He's a class act. Did he make mistakes, sure but his mistakes weren't the only thing that need improving at the club and all of you know it. This is the downside of success as a football club. Too many disrespectful plastics start "supporting" while disrespecting the generation that "wasn't good enough".
He’s our keeper, our Belgian keeper , it’s Simon mignolet
We ignored Reina for a lesser Mignolet and then him for a lesser karius and it cost us dearly.
More so since Reina went on to do so well in his 30s
Mignolet first game of Liverpool in anfield I think he got a PK and saved it. Liverpool won 1-0 (?) if my memory served me correctly
He is from the era where Liverpool were unable to find a match saving goalie. Think our last quality goalie was Dudek before Alisson arrived
Reina?! He literally got the golden glove his first 3 seasons!
Loris started off awfully because he rushed an injury. When he came back in December, he was brilliant (most UCL clean sheets that season) but the final ruined his career. Even after that he kept making mistakes. Mignolet was such a downgrade on Reina because he was a shot stopper and nothing else. Loris made our defence perform better even when Virg wasn't there
Great shot stopper (absolutely top class in that area) and a good lad, but he wasn't physical enough in his six yard box for Premier League football and too often got caught on his line when he should have been coming to claim balls and physically dominate the area. Any oppo coming in to his box looking to get on to a cross shoudl have know that they were going to get clattered.
His lack of confidence in this area unsettled his central defensive partnerships, they wouldn't know if he was coming or staying. And when he did come it was neearly always badly timed as he wouldn't commmit early enough and be caught out of postion. Opp's knew if they put a ball inot the corridor of uncertainty or got a ball into the edge of the six yard box that panic would ensue...
You may not agree with me but I’m convinced that if he had started in that 2018 UCL final instead of Karius, we would have won. Glad he left Liverpool with a winners medal around his neck.
please keep a clean sheets vs man city for the next game
A MAN WHO SAVED US STOKE CITY GAME.
Saw Mignolet pick his nose throughout a whole meal when I was sat on the table next to him in a restaurant in Liverpool.
He was finished for me from that point.
Well he can’t pick it when he’s at work can he 😂
I always tought as a Liverpool fan, that Simon Mignolet was way better than Karius!
Nice guy but never at Liverpools level
Muppet
You can tell who the part time Liverpool fans are, they trot out the 'Karius was great until the final' rubbish when he had been making really bad errors for months. We had an easy CL group stage battering some teams 7-0, the one time he did face a shot he made a huge mistake against Spartak Moscow away from home, stood in the wrong place from a free kick. He conceded a pen at Crystal Palace and another at home to Spurs, made a similar error at home to Roma that he made in the final but got away with it as the shot hit the bar, made mistakes away at MC and Roma, badly out of position when Sane scored against us in the 4-3 league game. It came out after he left that Achterberg and Klopp had already instructed the owners to get Alisson months before the CL final. I love and miss Klopp but he messed up dropping Simon, he wasn't Ali or Kelleher level but he wouldn't have embarrassed us in that final.
He also managed to concede a corner when taking a goal kick.
Couldn’t agree more. Hate when people rewrite history. He’d been a liability for months
Honestly don't think there's as big a difference between Mignolet and Kelleher. Mignolet was error prone but a lot of times he looked worse because the pundits blamed every loss on him even though the defence he had in front of him was shit
Mignolet had skrtel and sakho infront of him
Allison has vvd and konate
He has such a great Flemish accent mixed with scouse
Karius < Mignolet < Kelleher < Allison
The two keepers LFC have currwntly are miles better than the previous 2
Magnanimous Miglonet
Seen a lot of people praising mignolet for how good he was. Sorry but I watched most games with him and he started off well but he made so many little errors and mistakes. Sure he’s a great guy but a below average keeper. Karius before the champions league final was miles ahead
Really liked Mignolet ynwa
Easy, because the club didn't believe he was the right choice, and they went and got a better keeper.
Mignolet was a great servant to the club and will always wish him the best, but that's the nature of football at the top, as soon as better comes along, your gone
Mignolet wasnt worldclass, lets be real
Only Lukasz Fabianski has saved more penalties in Premier League history than Simon Mignolet.
The crazy thing with karius, he never really had a bad game. Most goals he conceaded was down to a shaky defence. He got concussed in that ucl final game and then was written off completely. I feel like karius has been given so much hate since which has lead to a lack in confidence and then ability.
Mignolet was our no 1 for 4 years, and he was never convincing for Liverpool
Still today I think he should have started the final in Kiev. He never would have made these mistakes
He was the better keeper, he is right.
Such an underrated keeper
Not really…..decent but not good enough to be Liverpools number 1. Wouldn’t have won what did if it wasn’t for Alisson
@@gazman6536He said he's underrated. Not that he's Allison level lol 🤡
Foul kepeer
Good shot stopper, wasnt gonna be able to play at his feet like Klopp wanted tho.
Stop the nonsense
What annoys me with these podcasts is when you have 2 PL goalkeepers yet the 3rd random guy wants to keep chirping in. Just let the pros talk please!
I always told everyone that Liverpool would not win anything with him in goal, he was a liability and simply not good enough, thank God he left!!!
Great player always let dowj by defence around you at tikes YNWA
you learn spanish from a brazilian that speaks Portuguese as a native language? they certainly are 2 languages closely related and maybe he speaks spanish too, but.....
He's a very likeable guy but let's be honest he was a terrible keeper for us. Our defence didn't help but I lost count the amount of blunders he made.
Poor keeper overall. People talking about a great shot stopper but that's a minimum requirement for a keeper so I don't get praising any keeper for this.
If I were Mignolet I would've left immediately after Jugen put Karius ahead of me! You'll have to open history books to find someone who was close to being as bad as Karius was/is.
Well you wouldn’t know that immediately would you…
He was absolute rubbish. At the point he was dropped for Karius he had one of the worst records in the PL. Couldn't catch a cross to save his life and absolutely hopeless at playing out. There's a reason why we paid a world record for Alisson.
Mignolet could’ve started everywhere else
Not really he was shit
He absolutely could not have. He wasn't good enough for a team in top 10 in the PL
I figured Allison spoke Portuguese not Spanish
He left because he was not good enough he should never have played for Liverpool, he fumbled more than he saved very very bad signing an easy one to forget.
Glad to see the back of him, he was nowhere near good enough for Liverpool FC.
Mingolet should never have been signed. Garbage gk.
Its easy to look good at a small club that faces 15 shots a game.
Pepe Reina should never of been treated the way Rogers treated him... Reina could do nothing all game, then in the 85th minute pull off one save to keep the game at a 1 0 win.
Doesnt anybody remember when he was at the club? Him and karius were a fucking joke! Worst keeper pairing i have ever seen at a club.
He sounds just lie Daniel Brühl in Rush...
This guy was Number 2 to Larry Karius lol 😂