Simon Mignolet signs new Liverpool contract

Liverpool Football Club have announced that goalkeeper Simon Mignolet has today signed a new long-term contract.

Within 24 hours of of the Reds getting turned over by rivals Manchester United, confirmation of the inking of the deal was posted on the official Liverpool FC website.

Commenting on his new deal, the 27-year-old said: “I’m very pleased that I can be at Anfield and a part of Liverpool for a long future. I’m happy to commit my future to LFC.

“I know signing a new contract comes with new responsibility. I’m getting older as well and coming into the years where people would say those are the years a ‘keeper is at his best.

“I know with a long-term contract, you get more responsibility – and I want to take up that role because I’m the sort of character that wants to be a leader, wants to speak in the dressing room and wants to help the defence.

“I’ll try to work hard together with the goalkeeping coach and staff here, who are behind me and have given their confidence with a new contract.

“I would like to thank them for that – but you can’t really do that with words, you have to do that with performances on the pitch. And that’s what I’ll try to show.”