What do you suggest 'we' do about it then Fed? I'm sure Fishpie, Stuey and the others who have commented on Migs are infering that because he may be more settled in his second season the obvious nerves he had will be lessened and we may well see the keeper Brendan thinks he did when he bought him.
Sorry mate but I just don't buy that. If you could think of the one thing in the world that would calm the nerves of a new keeper and inject him with confidence, what do you think it would be?
Because it actually happened. We were up 1-0 and Walters stepped up to take a penalty and Mignolet stopped it. Everyone swarmed him and he looked like the f**king Hulk after he stopped that. He was on top of the world. There's nothing that could have given him more confidence than that.
And yet.... it didn't last. He went back into his shell, looked shaky any time a cross came in, flapped at corners like it was going out of style etc. What more do you want? what more confidence do you need than the entire city of Liverpool worshiping you for stopping Walters' penalty in the first game of the season? he had all the support of every single LFC supporter around the world. And it did nothing!
As for what we should do: the answer is obvious, we need to bring in a keeper to give him competition. Either Mignolet will step up his game and be the keeper we hope he will be, or he won't, and the other keeper will step up and take over. After all, it was Rodgers himself who said he wanted serious competition at keeper. There isn't any right now. Mignolet didn't have to worry about being dropped. That shouldn't be the case with any player.
But this is not Liverpool Learning Club. We're not going to drop points just so Mignolet can settle. He needs to play like a keeper for Liverpool Football Club or he should be dropped, simple as. Why does everyone want to coddle him, and possibly risk dropping points, just so HE can get better? We need to be ruthless.
I don't know who we should bring in. It looks like Pepe has burned his bridges. Lord knows I'm not Pepe's biggest fan as he was really phoning it in the last few seasons before he went off to Napoli but he's a hell of a lot better than Brad Jones and if we had to choose between Mignolet or Pepe I'm not sure there's a clear winner.
If we're going to get rid of Pepe then we need to bring in someone who is good enough to beat Mignolet to the starting spot. Vorm would have been a good choice, but he's off to Spurs now. Guzan is an excellent keeper but I doubt Villa would let us have him. I would love Begovic and it seems he was an option last summer, I think it might be worth it to give it a go, they've got Butland after all and he's probably tired of sitting the bench.
I don't know who we should bring in. But it would be football suicide to not bring in ANYONE of quality and just cross our fingers that Mignolet will up his game this season, because he might not do.