By Loris Karius hasn't had a brilliant few months following his (possibly concussion-inspired) collywobbles in Liverpool's 3-1 Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid, with pre-season errors against Tranmere Rovers and Borussia Dortmund. However, he's taking the whole thing very cosmically.
Karius had a flip through his Little Book Of Calm before posting on his Instagram story yesterday, where he wrote: "To those who take joy in seeing other people fail or suffer, I feel for you. Whatever it is thats [sic] happening in your life to hold that much anger and hate, I pray that it passes and good things come to you."
It comes after Karius dropped another clanger on Liverpool's pre-season tour of America. Following a spill against Tranmere Rovers last week, Karius parried a Christian Pulisic shot straight into the path of Jacob Bruun Larson as Liverpool lost 3-1 to Borussia Dortmund.
Admittedly, it doesn't look great. Being forced to play in weird high school seven-a-side goals is bad enough, but it's the way the ball plops softly away from Karius' hands as he awkwardly half-crouches - and the way he tries to scamper after it with the air of a man trying to stop the domino he's just accidentally nudged from tumbling and destroying his 16,000-domino layout - that makes it particularly pitiable. The journalist and retired goalkeeper David Preece did give Karius a fair hearing, though.
After the game, Jurgen Klopp said that Karius is an "outstanding goalkeeper", but that he would be making way for new £68 million signing Alisson, who arrives from Roma after playing for Brazil at the World Cup.
"Obviously Alisson is a world-class goalkeeper, so we're not going to say, 'Let's have a look'. He will play, of course," Klopp said. "He is the number one for Brazil and then there is the fee. When Alisson is ready, he will be in our goal."
