Liverpool Loaned Karius to Beksitas

DBasia.news – The mystery of who the goalkeeper who will left Liverpool as the arrival of Alisson Becker has answered. Following the exit of Danny Ward from Anfield, the answer is the trending goalkeeper in the 2017-2018 Champions League final, Loris Karius. Simon Mignolet stayed and became the second goalkeeper after Alisson.

Karius, 25, loaned by The Reds to Besiktas for two seasons with a permanent option if he performs as expected in the agreement. Indirectly, the loan indicated that Liverpool aren’t fully believe on the quality of the former Mainz goalkeeper, after his two horror blunders in the Champions League final.

The goalkeeper who was born in Biberach an der Riss, June 22 1993, became trending after the blunder who resulted to Karim Benzema’s easy goal and failed to catch Gareth Bale’s kick as the third goal for Madrid. The rumor of Karius’ exit was trending during the summer transfer market.

Karius stayed until the end of England summer transfer market. Liverpool, and also the rest of England clubs, couldn’t recruit a new player, both permanent or loan, but they can still sell or loan their own player to another club. Besiktas are really interested on Karius.

The former U21 Germany national team goalkeeper has conducted the medical review in Besiktas. The Besiktas . supporters greeted him in Ataturk International Airport, Turki when he came. Karius’ manager in Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp, also glad of his transfer to Besiktas for more chance to play there.

“Loris is a fantastic goalkeeper at a very good goalkeeper age. A lot of people speak now about our improved defensive things and as good as Alisson was in the last three games, in most of the games when we were already really good in that he was not here. It was Loris in goal and he did a lot of good things,” Klopp said reported by Mirror.

“When I saw the Besiktas team, it’s quite an experienced team they have there. They have a good chance to win the league in Turkey, that’s cool. Now they have a really good goalkeeper. I’m really happy for him and he was very happy about the opportunity as well,” he concluded.

Karius is the only foreign goalkeeper in Besiktas current squad. The other three goalkeepers of Senol Gunes come from Turkey: Tolga Zengin, Ersin Destanoglu, and Utku Yuvakuran. However, he is not the only Germany player in the squad, because there are also Tolgay Arslan and Oguzhan Aydogan.