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Mignolet signs new long-term Liverpool deal

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The shot-stopper commits his future to the Merseyside men

Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet has put pen-to-paper on a five-year contract at the Reds’ Melwood training complex today.

The deal will see the Belgium international remain with the club until at least the end of the 2020-21 season.

Since his £9 million move from Sunderland in 2013, Mignolet has gone on to make 122 appearances in his Liverpool career.

And during 2015, the 27-year old kept more clean sheets than any other Premier League ‘keeper.

When speaking to liverpoolfc.com, Mignolet 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.”

‘more responsibility’

“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,” he added.

“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.”

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