Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet has signed a new contract which will reportedly keep him at the club until 2021.
Press Association Sport reported the Belgium international's new deal is for five years, which shows significant faith from manager Jurgen Klopp as the Belgian has come in for much criticism for some indifferent displays.
Mignolet recorded more Premier League clean sheets than any other goalkeeper in 2015 and though his errors have brought him the wrong sort of headlines, that has not affected Klopp's view.
.@smignolet on what he hopes to achieve with #LFC having signed a new contract with the club. https://t.co/pgTK7mUP6c
- Liverpool FC (@LFC) January 18, 2016
"I'm very pleased that I can be at Anfield and a part of Liverpool for a long future. I'm happy to commit my future to LFC," Mignolet, 27, told Liverpool's official website.
"I know signing a new contract comes with new responsibility. I'm getting older as well and coming into the years where people would say those are the years a keeper is at his best.
"I know with a long-term contract you get more responsibility -- and I want to take up that role because I'm the sort of character that wants to be a leader, wants to speak in the dressing room and wants to help the defence.
"I'll try to work hard together with the goalkeeping coach and staff here, who are behind me and have given their confidence with a new contract.
"I would like to thank them for that but you can't really do that with words, you have to do that with performances on the pitch and that's what I'll try to show."
Liverpool also confirmed on Monday that 18-year-old midfielder Allan has joined Belgian side Sint-Truidense on loan.
The Brazilian midfielder, who joined from Internacional in September, has already enjoyed a temporary spell at SJK in Finland, where he helped the club to the first league title in their history.