Loris Karius will likely remain with Liverpool beyond this transfer window, according to reports. The German goalkeeper is out of contract this summer.
This comes from the Liverpool Echo. They claim that Loris Karius has had no offers in the transfer window and is set to remain with Liverpool.
The goalkeeper hasn’t played for the Reds since the 2018 UEFA Champions League final, of course. Instead, Liverpool loaned him out to Besiktas and Union Berlin, though neither offered a permanent home for Karius.
His contract now expires at the end of this season and there was hope that Liverpool could move him on early. No offers have arrived, however, meaning Karius is ‘increasingly likely’ to remain beyond Monday.
He will certainly leave the club once his deal ends on June 30th but until then, Liverpool will have to pay him his wages.
Loris Karius to remain with Liverpool
It’s no great surprise but there was hope that someone would offer Karius a deal. The biggest issue is that his reputation completely collapsed after 2018, meaning his wages are almost certainly higher than anyone else will pay.
Thus Karius is within his rights to simply train with Liverpool and pick up that paycheck. But it is a sad end to things for a goalkeeper who once promised so much.
Liverpool signed him as the up-and-coming goalkeeper out of Germany. Karius had finished second in voting for the Bundesliga’s best between the sticks back in 2016, behind only Manuel Neuer.
We had Klopp calling him ‘outstandingly skilled’ during his first season with Liverpool, too. Unfortunately, things got off to a rocky start and then utterly collapsed in May 2018. Karius’s reputation is so low that we can’t possibly predict where his career goes from here.
But with no offers for a free transfer, it’s safe to say he faces a difficult summer.
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