Liverpool fans react with horror after Simon Mignolet gets new contract

Simon Mignolet might not be everyone's cup of tea.

But Liverpool fans are now having to face up to the fact that they'll be seeing a lot more of him at Anfield over the next few seasons. The former Sunderland goalkeeper, who signed for £9m, has inked a new five-year deal which will keep him on Merseyside until the end of the 2020-21 season. To be fair to the man, he kept more clean sheets (15) than any other 'keeper in the Premier League during 2015. https://twitter.com/LFC/status/689130149527334913 "I am the sort of character that wants to be a leader, wants to speak in the dressing room and help the defence," Mignolet said on the club's website.  "I know signing a new contract comes with new responsibility. I am getting older as well and coming into the years where people would say those are the years a goalkeeper is at his best. "I will 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." But Reds fans will surely remember some of the clangers they've witnessed during his time at the club. They sure let their feelings be known on Twitter about the Belgian's new deal, tweeting Liverpool's official account. People thought it had to be a sick joke...

@LFC WHAT KIND OF SICK JOKE

— Liverpool GFN (@LiverpoolGFN) January 18, 2016

@LFC @SMignolet https://t.co/lgB9NMbbxA — dan (@AImightyDan) January 18, 2016

@LFC bloody kidding are you

— Éliane Abi-Sleiman (@ElianeA_S) January 18, 2016

It just had to be, right?

@LFC am I actually reading this correctly???? — Dan (@3daniellec_) January 18, 2016

Especially after the United game... But apparently this was much worse... Then the pen jokes started... And then came the reaction tweets... Then up popped the United fans... https://twitter.com/boyneboy/status/689131456216588288 The worst part of it is, this is what you could have had...