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This week’s Blood Red column on Alisson Becker, who brought up his 250th Liverpool appearance against Newcastle on Monday

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ByPaul GorstLiverpool FC correspondent
10:28, 6 JAN 2024
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Jurgen Klopp (R) congratulates Liverpool’s Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson Becker at the end of the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Anfield

After the euphoria of Monday night’s pulsating 4-2 victory over Newcastle had started to subside, there was a Liverpool milestone that had quietly passed without much recognition.

Alisson Becker might have preferred to have signed off from his 250th appearance in goal for the Reds with his 109th clean sheet but he was still able to toast to an energising triumph that, judging by the post-match scenes at Anfield, has given many within the fanbase a firm belief that a sustained push for the Premier League title can emerge in the coming months.

If Liverpool are to make it a second title in four years in May, much of that success will be down to the brilliant Brazilian between the sticks. Widely regarded as the best in the world by those who work day to day around the AXA Training Centre, Alisson has once more been a beacon of consistency for a team who currently possess the best defensive record in the Premier League.

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His presence between the posts is what will embolden Klopp that a genuine tilt at the major honours can be forthcoming and already the debate about exactly where he stands in the pantheon of greats at Anfield is a healthy one. There will be few who will grumble at the suggestion that he is the finest glovesman of the Premier League era at the very least at Liverpool.

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The summer of 2021 was an important one for the Reds in terms of tying down the core of their squad to new deals at the time as the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson all penned contract extensions alongside Alisson, whose own terms were stretched until 2027.

That additional year on the contract means Liverpool will be in no rush to open further negotiations but it was interesting to hear the Brazil international speak openly last month about his plans to play for many more years yet at the top of the game.

“I feel myself in a good way, in good shape. I’m working for that – to improve each year as much as I can,” he said. “I started to play (first team) football at a young age for a goalkeeper, 21 or 22 years old, so I’ve already played ten years in the posts.. That’s a lot of time, but I’m still young for a goalkeeper. If you see goalkeepers now they are playing until they are 38, 39 and sometimes going over that.”

With Alisson not turning 32 until early October, it will be heartening for fans to hear him talking about the possibility of playing for another six or seven years and there will surely also be an acceptance from owners Fenway Sports Group that age should be no barrier to new terms for a goalkeeper as good as the current No.1.

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That same sentiment will also apply to Klopp, who conceded before Christmas that he could not contemplate having another first-choice at his disposal having enjoyed Alisson’s excellence since the summer of 2018.

“I look at him now and I think: ‘I don’t want another goalkeeper,'” Klopp told Ben Foster for Amazon Prime. “That is the goalie you want to have. He is calm as you like, really smart, a really good person and he wants to play every game. When we analysed him and we wanted to bring him in and we watched his game, it was ridiculous how calm he is