Alisson Becker was criticised by some Liverpool ‘fans’ after his performance against West Ham and now calls for him to be dropped have been shared by some.
It appears that the whole debate, or rather the universal jump to the Brazilian’s defence, has circled from a misinterpreted quote.
Ian Doyle from the Liverpool Echo wrote a piece about Sunday’s defeat that was quoted online:
To be fair to the actual comment, it does say that it would be a huge call if dropping the ‘keeper did happen and doesn’t insinuate that Jurgen Klopp would ever do so.
Nevertheless, the mention of our No.1 alongside the suggestion of him being removed from the starting line-up has caused a big reaction on Twitter.
Here’s some examples of the reaction:
This does seem to be somewhat of a storm in a teacup where a misread or not clearly written line is taken apart on the magnitude that is has been.
Everyone knows that the 29-year-old has done a lot more good than he has bad for us and that he would need to do a lot more to get dropped from the team.
Players have bad games, conceding from corners happens and he got a hand to their second goal, there’s been a lot worse performances in-between our sticks before.
As all fans know, we’re going to stick with the big man and long may he keep our sheets clean.