Key Highlights
- In my mind, I was pretty much retired.”You wouldn’t blame him for falling out of love with the game.
- Three years prior, Karius had endured one of the cruellest nights a sportsman could possibly conceive, sparking a downward spiral that looked terminal.
- The infamy of his 2018 Champions League final capitulation in Kiev, later discovered to have been catalysed by a concussion, came to unfairly but understandably define his time on Merseyside.
- There, they struggle to remember him beyond his worst moment. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBut while his legacy remains tainted by that one fateful night in Ukraine, Karius is writing a new story in his homeland.
- The German stopper’s “retirement” was short-lived, and he is now quietly in the midst of a quite remarkable redemption arc at Schalke 04 – traditionally Germany’s third biggest club who now find themselves in the second tier – with both sharing the common goal of clawing their way back after a dramatic fall from grace. Loris Karius is in the midst of a quite remarkable redemption arc at Schalke 04 ()In 12 months in Gelsenkirchen, Karius has helped transform a club that was last season flirting with relegation to the third tier, to one that now sits atop 2.