Alex Manninger has announced his retirement when his Liverpool contract ends.
Manninger enjoyed a 22-year playing career which saw him play for clubs across Europe including in the Bundesliga, Serie A and La Liga before joining the Reds.
His arrival at Anfield last summer saw the 39-year-old return to the Premier League, where he had won a league and FA Cup double with Arsenal in 1998.
Jurgen Klopp enlisted Manninger to provide experience and competition to Liverpool’s goalkeeping ranks alongside Simon Mignolet and Loris Karius.
But after just one season on the first-team fringes, the former Austria international has pledged to hang up his gloves later this summer.
He said: “I started to wonder at Christmas time how I’d react to retiring.
“Then I kind of was prepared. I had a couple of little niggles during the season with the calf and a wrist injury.
“Also [in training], with the quality, I had a couple of signs that left me thinking that maybe five years ago I would have saved the shot and so on.
“There is always a time and I thought to myself that if I wanted to carry on, maybe it wouldn’t be here [at Liverpool] – I don’t know.
“I might have needed to drop leagues, change country or go into a smaller competition, so I thought: ‘I will finish at one of the best clubs in the world.’
“Then I felt a release, but it was a well thought out decision.”