Liverpool: I hope Karius recovers… just with another team
By David Gate
It was hard to see Loris Karius break down after the Champions League final and I hope he recovers… just not at Liverpool.
I have no ill will to Loris Karius. I could defecate in a sandwich for Sergio Ramos, but I have nothing but sympathy for the Liverpool goalkeeper. His errors – howlers of the highest order on the biggest stage – crushed the dreams of his teammates, his coach, the fans in Kiev and Reds around the world.
Watching him in the aftermath was heartbreaking, and not simply because my team, who I love, had lost. But because it is hard to watch a human being fail so spectacularly and feel the blame and guilt in such a public – global – way.
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I was impressed how he went to the fans to acknowledge his culpability. His words since the final have proven he is a man of responsibility. I admire that in him.
Like many Reds, I hope he recovers from this weekend. I hope this does not torpedo his career. This adversity could be the lowest point of his career. He if he can get through this and improve, he can get through anything.
I genuinely hope that happen. But not at Liverpool Football Club. I don’t want Anfield to be the place where we discover if this is the beginning of a great recovery or the start of a sad-career slide.
We have seen something special from Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp’s side this season. Individual errors cost us all the way down the line. We rode them out in the Champions League final until all the bad luck hit at once.
I don’t want next year’s Champions League tilt or Premier League campaign to be influenced by a goalkeeper in recovery who may never get over this disaster.
I want a good keeper – Alisson Becker or Jan Oblak – to take the gloves. The rest of this team deserves to have someone in goal that can match their level. Spend the cash and bring in one of the best.
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Loris Karius can go on-loan to the Bundesliga for a year or something and then we can sell him in 2019 when he won’t be as tainted as he is now. I hope that in 10 years I can look at his career and say ‘Well done, lad. You turned it around’. But make him do some other place than Anfield.