Spending around €35million on an 18-year-old goalkeeper sounds ridiculous. There is no point pretending otherwise.
Goalkeepers mature late. Their mistakes are brutally visible. The position is packed with psychological demands that cannot be measured by looking at wingspan, save percentage or a collection of clips. Liverpool have committed a substantial amount of money to Lucca Brughmans before discovering how he will respond to most of the challenges that define an elite goalkeeper.
Yet watch Brughmans closely and the thinking becomes considerably easier to understand.
