Andy Lonergan was a shock signing for Liverpool last summer but he has clearly embraced the opportunity at Anfield.
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, the goalkeeper spoke effusively about Jurgen Klopp and shared a conversation he’d had about an injury Lonergan suffered at the age of 21.
He said: “I’ve had the chance to play in the Premier League in the past and it’s not happened. I had a really bad injury when I was 21, I missed nearly two years of football.
“I was speaking to the gaffer the other day and he said, ‘If you hadn’t had that injury then you’d have had a completely different career.”
He also touched on the way that Liverpool have rekindled his love for the game, after ‘three or four’ seasons where he felt he could have quit the game.
Lonergan also shared praise from James Milner for his attitude to training and how if his professionalism hadn’t been so good, it could have upset the apple cart.
It gives an interesting insight into what goes on day to day behind a move which outsiders may not understand.
Lonergan’s Anfield move may have come out of left field but he has clearly worked every day to become a valuable member of the camp.
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