Alex Manninger is a name that won’t be familiar to many Premier League fans.
Followers of Arsenal’s double-winning season might vaguely remember him as the goalkeeper who sat on the bench, but few else will be well-acquainted.
Manninger spent last season with German side Augsburg, making a grand total of two appearances. In fact, the 39-year-old last played a Premier League game 14 years ago.
If that sounds like just the sort of player Liverpool would sign, that’s because it is.
Like everyone in German football, it seems, Manninger is a friend of Jurgen Klopp’s, and has somehow convinced the Reds boss to give him a trial, with a view to signing a one-year deal, as per the Sun.
Manninger was never first choice at Arsenal, playing second fiddle to David Seamen. He would be third choice at Anfield, behind present number one Simon Mignolet and summer signing Loris Karius, who arrived in a £4.7million deal.
It’s not even as if Liverpool need another support stopper, as they always have the option of recalling Danny Ward, an international goalkeeper with Wales, from his loan spell at Huddersfield.
Unfortunately for Liverpool’s increasingly frustrated fans, it seems Klopp is letting nepotism get the better of him here.
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