OPINION
Every second string footballer faces a dilemma at some point or other in their career. Should they, knowing full well that they only have a decade and a half in the professional game perhaps, while away their hours on the bench, lining their pockets with exorbitant amounts of cash?
Or, based on the fact that they only have a finite amount of time in the sport, do they move somewhere else, play more often, and hope that they are remembered as somebody who contributed to a club?
Simon Mignolet finds himself in exactly that position right now.
The Belgian stopper is very much the deputy ...