Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has refurbished his home after losing the 2018 Champions League final to Real Madrid. and European balls.

Without Alisson’s huge contribution to Liverpool in recent years, Klopp may not have been able to lead his team to Saturday’s Champions League final against Real Madrid, also in the French capital Paris.

Liverpool’s painful defeat four years ago left Klopp with additional bitterness as he chose another goalkeeper, Loris Karius, who made mistakes that led to a 3-1 defeat against the royal team.

Klopp signed Karius from Mainz and made him the first choice at the expense of Belgian Simon Mignolet, but the German was never convincing and his negative contribution to the Kyiv final was a knockout.

A few minutes after the two-half break, when the result was negative, Karius unfairly threw the ball at the Frenchman Karim Benzema, who opened the scoring.

Liverpool were in the spirit of the match despite trailing 1-2, but a new miss by Karius set up Welshman Gareth Bale with a brace to take a 3-1 lead, and Real Madrid managed to lift the prestigious title.

A few weeks later, Klopp signed Roma’s Alisson Becker for the world record goalkeeper worth around $84 million.

Egyptian Mohamed Salah, Senegalese Sadio Mane and Dutchman Virgil van Dijk may be the stars of the Klopp era at Liverpool, but Alisson’s influence is no less valuable.

Goalkeepers have always been respected at Liverpool and a large painting of 1970s star Ray Clemens still hangs on the wall of a house near Anfield.

Alisson, 29, deserves to be ranked among the greatest goalkeepers in Liverpool’s history and Klopp has no doubts about his quality: “For me, Alisson Becker is the best goalkeeper in the world.”

“There are great goalkeepers, but this goalkeeper is crazy,” continued the Liverpool manager.

The Brazilian goalkeeper has left his mark on most of Liverpool’s successes in recent years.

– ‘I would pay twice as much’ –

A few months after moving to Merseyside, Alisson made a killer time save against Napoli in December 2018.

In their last group stage game, Liverpool knew that a shutout, or at least a two-goal margin, would qualify them for the play-offs.

While Liverpool went ahead with a goal, the ball reached the lone Pole Arkadiusz Milik, but Alisson saved the ball with his feet and contributed to his team reaching the 1/8 finals.

Klopp said at the time: “If I had known that Alisson was so good, I would have paid twice his price. I have no words to describe his shock.”

Liverpool continued on their way to the final where they won the title at the expense of their compatriot Tottenham Hotspur while Alisson claimed his first major title on the old continent.

A year later, Liverpool won the English Premier League title after three decades of starvation and Alisson showed great consistency throughout his Premier League career.

Klopp’s men struggled to defend their title and were vying for a place in the first continental competition when Alisson launched a decisive ‘offensive’ intervention against West Bromwich Albion in May 2021.

The result was a 1-1 draw in the final fifth minute of the match. Alisson moved forward thanks to a corner kick from his teammate Trent Alexander-Arnold, with a beautiful header that sent the ball into the hosts’ goal to give his team a 2-1 win.

Three months after his father’s death, he considered the goal a moment of divine intervention, explaining: “I’m very emotional. I’m sure he’s celebrating (goal) and God is on his side. God put his hand on my head. .”

Alisson has been equally important this season during Liverpool’s historic quad chase in England, which vanished last week, losing the league title by an orphan point to rivals Manchester City.

The goalkeeper, who made his debut in Brazil with Internacional, conceded 20 goals in the league and recently saved Mason Mount’s penalty to help win the Cup at Chelsea’s expense.

If Liverpool win the Champions League for the seventh time in their history on Saturday, it’s no surprise that Alisson will leave a new mark on the road to the title.