Goalkeeper Simon Mignolet is club’s problem, Dracula is better than him – Reds Legend

Liverpool have started this season quite on a bad note, conceding 18 goals and scoring 15 in 12 games, a close call if not worse than last season where they scored 101 goals, and conceded 50, 13 more than eventual winners, Manchester City. The sale of the club’s top scorer last season; Luis Suarez seems to be a clampdown as they have struggled to score goals.

For a team that finished last season on 2nd position and with two points behind City, it is unbelievable to see them occupy the 12th position with 12 games gone already and on 14 points. And one man has been in between the poles for the Reds, Belgian Simon Mignolet.

Bruce Grobelaar, a Zimbabwean regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers ever to play for Liverpool, having won three FA Cups, three League Cups and one European Cup in a 13 years Reds career, considers the goalkeeper as the problem of the club and not the sale of Suarez

Speaking to BBC, he said: ''Any team that lets in 50 goals should never be in second position in the first place. That was masked and brushed over by the brilliance of Suarez and [Daniel] Sturridge scoring so many goals.

''You've got to shore up at the back, get yourself someone in goal that can only let in 30 goals a season, or less than 30 goals a season,’’ Grobelaar spoke on Liverpool’s form and expectations

The 57 year-old blatantly blamed Mignolet for letting in too many goals

''I've always said that. I've said that he doesn't command his area.

''I have likened him worse than Dracula, because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.

''That whole area - not the six-yard area, the 18-yard area - is the goalkeeper's, and in this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and catch the ball and you get smacked you are going to get the foul.

''It's not rocket science, and he is a big lad. As soon as that ball is in the air - get out, come for it.

''You're going to get a lot more fouls for you and less are going to go in the back of the net.’’

Liverpool will on Tuesday face Bulgarian club, Ludogorets in a must win UEFA Champions League Group B tie and manager Brendan Rodgers would hope that the Belgian goalkeeper stops any ball from going in.