Should Liverpool Fans Be WORRIED About Alisson Becker’s Recent Form?

Ste (0:00)

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Hey everyone, welcome to The Redmen TV. In this clip from Journo Insight, I spoke about Alisson Becker with Liverpool Echo journalist Paul Gorst. If you want to check out the show in full, including a little bit of an update on Trey Nione's contract situation, a look ahead to Palace, a little review of Liverpool's youth team, and how they got in on-ramp Thanks. for watching. If you enjoyed this clip as well, then yeah, going over to Redmen Plus, go and download the Redmen Plus app. The show is there for you in full, both in video and podcast forms. But for now, I hope you enjoyed this clip. So we had a, I had a DM arrive on our Discord from Johnny, who asked, can we speak about Alisson? Some discussion, obviously, he makes a mistake at the weekend. Wasn't exactly fantastic last night. A couple of ones where maybe he could have done better. He comes out for a ball, like doesn't get, and then stays on his line. I think that's what Johnny wrote in the DM.

What are our overall thoughts on Alisson this season and what the future is looking like for Liverpool's goalkeeping situation?

Paul Gorst (1:28)

His distribution is a concern, isn't it? It looks like he hasn't got the full power in his clearances anymore. Sometimes not even getting to the halfway line. And maybe that's a little bit of a hesitation over the amount of muscle injuries he's had across the course of the last six or seven years. Not sure.

Yeah, it didn't have a good game last night. I thought his pass to Jacque on Sunday cost Liverpool a game, actually. And he got away with a little bit of brightening the week before.

Ste (1:53)

He's done the same against Fulham. If he had cast your man back a while ago, that 0-0, Jacque clears one off the line. Right. So there's three or four opportunities where his short pass really could have hurt Liverpool, has hurt Liverpool.

Paul Gorst (2:04)

Yeah, and the long pass, he's not quite got the power on it that maybe he wants out as well. So that is an area of concern, really. Made a couple of decent saves. Certainly a good one from Greenwood in the first half that sticks out. But yeah, he was, he was culpable, wasn't he, for the third. Him and Gakpoo with a bit of a mix up. By the end, he gets himself in all kinds of trouble. You know, Gwendoosje nearly scores from 40 yards out or whatever. You know, we know he's got that iconic moment against West Brom with the header, but when I see him coming off for corners, it's just a little bit undignified for Liverpool, isn't it? You know, you don't like to see that. It's particularly a group game where, you know, it's not, you know, do or die. So, yeah, I mean, I think you can maybe have that discussion at the moment, but I still think he is far away Liverpool's best goalkeeper, best option for the number one, shares at the moment.

And look, maybe he's going through a little bit of a tough spell. You know, you wouldn't begrudge him, would you? Given, you know, how good he has been across the course of, what is it now, eight, nine years.

But yeah, he's too good for it to become a long-term thing. But the distribution is probably the one you want to keep an eye on, because short, passing has been poor, and the long kick and just looks as if he's a bit hesitant to really put some welly behind it.

Ste (3:18)

I suppose the question is, is he having a little bit of a bad spell, or is there a decline? Because obviously, Liverpool, the contract situation, we know what it is, he runs out the end of this season, I think. Liverpool have got, Mamadashvili sat on the bench when he spent £30 million on, Lukaku Broomham who spent £30 million on, and obviously loaned him back out into Belgium. So Liverpool have got like £60 million worth of goalkeepers waiting in the wings. If this is just a bad patch and Alisson comes out the other end, you can stay as long as you want to and don't worry about it, but if it is more of a show of the climb, we've seen maybe Liverpool criticised in the recent past for holding onto a player a little bit too long and what's that conversation look like around the contract? If you think that, you know, if he's no longer Superman and he's just a very good goalkeeper, what's that worth to us? I think that's probably the conversation that is being had in and around Liverpool at the moment.