Signed and sealed: Liverpool confirm that Lucas Leiva has penned new long-term deal
Signed and sealed: Liverpool confirm that Lucas Leiva has penned new long-term deal
The Brazilian midfielder joined the club in July 2007 - and has committed to future with fresh contract signed
New deal: Lucas Leiva of Liverpool
John Powell
Liverpool have confirmed that midfielder Lucas Leiva has signed a new long-term contract to stay at Anfield.
According
to a statement on the club's official website, Lucas said: "It's
another long-term contract that I have signed - but it was the same
feeling as when I first came here.
"I am really delighted to have
the opportunity to play for this club. It's where I think I belong and
where I wanted to stay, so I am very happy and looking forward to a few
more years here.
"It was an easy decision because after the long
period of my career I have had here, I would like to give the best of my
time to this club. It was not a difficult decision to make and I am
really looking forward to what will hopefully be a few more years with a
lot of success." Ground work: Lucas Leiva (r) and Jordan Henderson
2012 Liverpool FC/Getty
The statement continued: Lucas originally joined Liverpool
from Gremio in the summer of 2007. He has since gone on to make 208
first-team appearances, scoring six goals.
Managing director Ian
Ayre added: "It's fantastic. He has been such a great servant to the
club and I think during the period he went through with his two
injuries, he put so much work into it and the club supported him through
it.
"He just goes from strength to strength. We said throughout
last summer and January, we wanted to keep our best, experienced
players, and this is another great example of that.
"The manager
has said several times that as well as having a great, young squad, it's
important we have experience and it's important we have characters.
People like Lucas fit that.
"He'll tell you he's still very young, but in footballing terms he's experienced and a big part of the team."
Staying put...
In
the last 10 months Luis Suarez, Daniel Agger, Martin Skrtel, Brad
Jones, Raheem Sterling, Suso, Jonjo Shelvey, Martin Kelly and Andre
Wisdom have all signed new deals with another in the pipeline for
captain Steven Gerrard.
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