Mignolet signs new five-year contract to stay at Liverpool through 2021

Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet has signed a new contract which will keep him at the club until 2021.

Press Association Sport understands 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.

"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 Liverpoolfc.com.

"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.

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.