Giorgi Mamardashvili would only be willing to remain at Valencia for another season if the Spanish club increased his salary.
The Georgian goalkeeper was signed by Liverpool last summer but immediately rejoined Valencia on a season-long loan, as there was deemed to be little chance of him usurping Alisson as the Reds’ first-choice goalkeeper.
As it happened, Alisson has suffered with a few injuries over the course of the campaign, so Mamardashvili would have had significant game time had he moved to Merseyside last summer.
After a difficult spell with Valencia earlier this season, Mamardashvili has shown his best form in recent weeks, prompting the Mestalla club to want to keep him for another year.
However, Estadio Deportivo reports that Mamardashvili would stand to lose “a lot of money” by staying with Valencia for another season.
The 24-year-old could decide to move to Liverpool, although he has no intention of playing second fiddle to Alisson, who remains at the top of his game.
Caoimhin Kelleher deputized excellently for Alisson last year but Arne Slot always maintained that the Brazilian was going to regain his place when he returned to full fitness.
Amid links with a move to the Saudi Pro League, Alisson said last year that he wants to honor his contract with Liverpool, which runs until 2027. “I want to honor my contract and finish my contract here or make a new one. I am really happy here. My family is happy,” he said.
“I never got to the point [in discussions with the Saudi Pro League] where I was talking about wages and things like this. It was just interest, but when you hear about the [wages] the other players are getting you are a little bit attracted. That is normal.
“At the end of the day, you play football for love, it is the thing you like to do, but it is our profession and we want to use the years that we have to make the most of it. I think I am open to that personally but not now. Now is not the time.”
Kelleher, meanwhile, is likely to leave Liverpool this summer after making it clear that he wants to be a first-choice goalkeeper. “I’ve made it clear in the last few years that I want to go and be a number one and play week in, week out,” Kelleher said last September.
“The club’s made that decision to get another goalkeeper and from the outside looking in, it looks like they’ve made a decision to go in a different direction.
“Sometimes from the outside looking in, it looks like that’s 100% my decision but at times it’s not always in my hand. It’s been reported that Liverpool have rejected a few bids as well. My ambition is clear that I think I’m good enough and I want to go out and prove it.”
