Premier League giants Liverpool allowed Peter Gulacsi to leave Anfield for free – now he is starring in the Champions League and the Bundesliga for Leipzig.
Is there a more underrated goalkeeper in world football right now than Peter Gulacsi?
As Bundesliga fanatics will tell you, RB Leipzig’s Hungarian shot-stopper has been in something of a permanent purple-patch ever since arguably Europe’s most ambitious club were promoted to the German top flight in 2016.
But perhaps he needed the exposure that only the Champions League can bring to really establish himself as one of the very best around.
With Gulacsi performing his typical heroics between the sticks as Leipzig put themselves on the verge of the quarter-finals with a 1-0 win at Tottenham this week, saving brilliantly from Giovani Lo Celso, Steven Bergwijn and Lucas Moura, the 29-year-old is finally getting the credit he deserves.
And this feels like a rare case of, as one Liverpool fan put it, ‘one that got away’ from the current Kings of the transfer market.
After all, a young Gulacsi spent six years at Anfield as a youngster but played more games on loan at Hereford and Tranmere Rovers than he did for the Merseyside giants. Barely an eyebrow was raised when a seldom-seen shot-stopper joined Salzburg on a free transfer (Echo).
Flash forward to the present day, however, and Gulacsi is scientific proof that Red Bull does, in fact, give you wings.
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