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Liverpool legend Grobbelaar: Why Mignolet is WORSE than Dracula...

Liverpool legend Bruce Grobbelaar is no fan of Simon Mignolet.

Grobbelaar says Liverpool will continue to struggle without more security at the back.

He told BBC Sport: "You've got to shore up at the back, get yourself someone in goal that can only let in 30 goals a season, or less than 30 goals a season."

Asked if he thought Mignolet - who Brendan Rodgers signed from Sunderland two years ago - was the problem, Grobbelaar responded: "I've always said that. I've said that he doesn't command his area."

He went on: "I have likened him worse than Dracula, because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.

"That whole area - not the six-yard area, the 18-yard area - is the goalkeeper's, and in this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and catch the ball and you get smacked you are going to get the foul.

"It's not rocket science, and he is a big lad. As soon as that ball is in the air - get out, come for it.

"You're going to get a lot more fouls for you and less are going to go in the back of the net."

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