His fall from grace is really sad. Best thing now to cut him loose and draw a line. Looking from the outside in it has to be a mentality thing that has done for Pepe.
"Fall from grace"? "mentality"? you act like he's been letting howlers in left and right. How do you know how good he is right NOW without actually seeing him play? Coates looked atrocious a couple of seasons ago, he went on loan, and now he looks incredible. How do you know Pepe hasn't gotten better as well?
Ask yourself this---do you really think that whatever issues Pepe has had, that he is right now a worse keeper than Brad Jones? of course not. And yet Jones gets into the team ahead of Pepe, who doesn't even make the bench.
That tells me it really has nothing to do with how good Pepe is or isn't right now, it's either about A) money or B) his beef with Rodgers. Most likely it's a combination of both.
It's pretty clear that politics are more important than football at the club right now because we obviously need someone to challenge Mignolet or even start ahead of him, we've got a top keeper right now who, while probably not what he once was, is at least as good as Mignolet is. And yet he doesn't get a chance.
Despite us having been told last summer that Rodgers wanted Pepe to stay so there would be competition between the keepers. And then they proceeded to unceremoniously ship Pepe out without even telling him to his face. Yea. some competition!
Look Pepe is no Neuer, but he is a top keeper and Mignolet didn't exactly cover himself in glory last season.
that Pepe isn't even getting a chance this season is criminal.
but, the transfer committee appears to have spoken.
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