26 Jul 2019 17:51:21
Hey Ed’s, hope you’re all traveling well. Just wanted to ask a question in terms of third choice keepers. Are we still actively looking to bring someone (veteran keeper) in for that role? I’ve read that Andy Lonergan joined up with us on pre-season and we have apparent interest in Tom Heaton according to links, but have we looked at anyone else? Thanks heaps for your time and effort.

{Ed002's Note - Andy Lonergan would be a great choice and from those who know him, he is apparently a good guy. Tom Heaton has miles left in him and if SM were to go may well be a very good option.}


1.) 26 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 19:22:51
Due to family, I keep an eye out for Preston and have been to many games. He's obviously not a spring chicken anymore, but Andy Lonergan was a great keeper for PNE and was also apparently a great personality in the dressing room. At the tender age of 35, I think he's a great option for our 3rd choice keeper.


2.) 26 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 20:13:12
Sounds like a good guy.

If Ed 002 says it’s a good choice that would do for me.

Plus Epic Potato has vouched for him.

All good it seems.


3.) 26 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 20:47:54
Heaton is an upgrade on mignolet, and allows the younger keepers to go on loan of mignolet leaves. With Heaton not being first choice at Burnley, seems like a good idea.


4.) 26 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 21:49:50
I agree with Ed002. Heaton is a decent choice. I don’t know much of Lonergan, other than he acquitted himself very well the day. I’d be happy with either as an experienced number 2.


5.) 26 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 22:17:38
I actually don't think Heaton is an upgrade on Mignolet. He's a good shot stopper, but his ball play and anticipation off the line are nowhere near Simon's level.

He may have been a good keeper for Burnley, but Liverpool require a different kind of keeper that is good with the ball and acts as a kind of sweeper. Sure, Mignolet isn't the best at this but he has learn't to bring it into his game and in that respect is far ahead of Heaton.


6.) 26 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 23:07:40
Heaton would be a great no2 but I doubt he wants to be a no2.
He fought to win the first team shirt at Burnley.


7.) 26 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 23:12:35
Sorry but Mignolet makes far too many errors to be relied upon, and given that the primary purpose of a goalkeeper is to stop the ball going into the goal, I’d rather have a competent keeper like Heaton than Mignolet, who gifts a soft goal almost every game.


8.) 27 Jul 2019
27 Jul 2019 07:50:15
I am with 6times on this one.
Mignolet fills me with no confidence at all! Every time he is on the pitch you feel like an error could happen at any moment.


9.) 27 Jul 2019
27 Jul 2019 08:22:42
We will not win a cup if Mignolet keeps playing.


10.) 27 Jul 2019
27 Jul 2019 09:59:49
Heaton is a really good keeper, before he got injured a couple of seasons ago, he should've been starting for England. Certainly wouldn't mind him as backup/ competition.


11.) 27 Jul 2019
27 Jul 2019 10:55:56
Epic potato, have you watched Mignolet? He’s nowhere near good enough and is a mistake waiting to happen.


12.) 27 Jul 2019
27 Jul 2019 11:39:14
OK, I may have over-emphasised and shouldn't have used words such as "far better". It's easier to look good as a keeper when you have plenty of shots being fired at you. At Burnley, Heaton had a lot of work to do.

It was the same with Mignolet when he was at Sunderland. He had a lot of saves to make each game and when we signed him, I thought we were getting one hell of a keeper.

You don't know how well a keeper will perform in a top team when they don't have a lot to do all game. There's plenty examples over the years of a keeper looking great at a lower club but failing to make the grade once they've stepped up.


13.) 27 Jul 2019
27 Jul 2019 11:47:09
I disagree with you on Mignolet, Epic. My recollections of him at Sunderland was although yes he faced a lot of shots, he also let in soft goals and was poor on crosses. Which is why I could never understand what our scouts had seen in him.


14.) 27 Jul 2019
27 Jul 2019 18:39:11
It "should" be irrelevant anyway. If Tom Heaton has anything competitive about him, he wouldn't want to be backup for who is probably the world's best goalkeeper and "should" play every game. It simply doesn't come down to healthy competition. Alisson isn't going to lose his place. Unlike when we had Migs and Karius fighting to be No. 1.

Considering how good Alisson is, and will more than likely play every game, I'd be happy for our veteran be the backup keeper and for the third choice go to a youngster. Similar to how Caballero has been for City and Chelsea.


15.) 27 Jul 2019
27 Jul 2019 21:35:53
The lad from Preston looks competent and a lot of people say good things about him. He’d do a good job as far as I’m concerned.


16.) 28 Jul 2019
28 Jul 2019 12:18:04
6Times, I've stated on another thread that I've PNE fans in my family and saw Andy Lonergan play plenty of times. He was a cracking keeper for Preston. I'd be more than happy for him to be number two and let Mignolet get first team football elsewhere.

An international goalkeeper at the age of 31 should be playing somewhere where he would be 1st choice.