• Goalkeeper’s two-year loan in
Turkey expires at end of season• ‘Maybe I’ll play for
Liverpool again, you never know’, says Karius
Loris Karius says he has put his 2018
Champions League calamity behind him and retains hope of playing again for Liverpool – or another
Premier League team – following his loan stint at Besiktas. The German has not appeared for Jürgen Klopp’s team since making two ghastly errors in the 2018 Champions League final, after which the club moved decisively to buy an upgrade, paying a world record fee for a goalkeeper to sign Allison from Roma.
That appeared to signal the end of Karius’s career at Anfield, as later that summer he left on a two-year loan to Besiktas, who have an option to make the transfer permanent at the end of this season for £7.25m. Neither the
Turkish club nor the player consider such a deal to be likely, meaning Karius will return to Liverpool, where his contract runs until 2021, or join another club.