Liverpool’s deal to sign Giorgi Mamardashvili will count as a 2025 transfer in terms of the Reds’ finances — despite the deal being agreed last summer. Mamardashvili agreed to join Liverpool in August 2024 but it was decided that he would remain with Valencia for the 2024-25 season.
Caoimhin Kelleher has been Liverpool‘s back-up goalkeeper to Alisson this season, but the Ireland international is expected to leave the club this summer in search of regular first-team soccer.
Liverpool viewed Mamardashvili as a signing for the future, and the club pounced last year because it did not believe that the Georgia international would be available for such a price in the future.
The Reds agreed to pay $33 million (£25 million) plus $5 million (£4 million) in possible add-ons for the 24-year-old, but the Mail Online says that Mamardashvili officially remains a Valencia player, and that last summer’s agreement between the three parties was that Mamardashvili would formalize his move to Liverpool in 2025.
It is not clear what Liverpool intends to do with Mamardashvili next season, as it seems unlikely that he would be willing to play second fiddle to Alisson after three seasons of regular first-team soccer in La Liga.
One option is for him to remain at Valencia for another season, although it is believed that he would only be willing to do that if the Spanish club increased his salary.
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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.”
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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.”
