‘Phenomenal’ Liverpool player clearly has no future at Anfield as Arne Slot looks to tie up £30m deal

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It looks likely to be a fairly wild final few days of the summer transfer window for Liverpool.

Over recent years, Reds supporters have become used to the last days of the window being something of a non-event.

While clubs around them scramble to do obscure and sometimes badly advised business, Liverpool have usually stayed out of things.

This year, that looks like being a different story. After staying patient throughout the summer so far, Arne Slot could make a number of signings before Friday’s deadline.

While that will be welcome news for Liverpool fans, some members of the first-team squad will perhaps react in a rather less gleeful way.

Caoimhin Kelleher sent clear message

One of the players who looks set to come through the door is Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili.

Mamardashvili completed a medical with Liverpool on Monday and his arrival at Anfield now looks imminent.

The 23-year-old will of course spend the rest of this season out on-loan, and it has been claimed that from there the expectation is that Mamardashvili will challenge for a place in 2025/26.

Quite what that means for Alisson Becker really remains to be seen. But while Alisson has already pledged his future to Liverpool, spare a thought for Caoimhin Kelleher.

Kelleher looked likely to leave Liverpool earlier this summer as he bids to become a regular starting goalkeeper.

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But with another window set to wrap up, the Irishman is still with the Reds. Kelleher has been called ‘phenomenal‘ and deserves to be a number one somewhere.

Now set to stay put, though, the 25-year-old may have slowly begun to set his sights on simply sticking around at Liverpool and then one day taking over first choice duties from Alisson.

But the new signing really puts an end to that idea. Given that Liverpool are spending around £30m on Mamardashvili, they clearly see him as Alisson’s heir apparent.

Stuck as a back-up and now with little hope of ever becoming first choice, Kelleher’s Liverpool future now looks bleak.

Could Caoimhin Kelleher still leave Liverpool?

It is a slight oddity that there has been no significant interest in Kelleher this summer. Liverpool’s asking price is relatively high, but the Ireland international is well worth it.

With a few days still to go in the window, nothing can really be ruled out in terms of a surprise late departure for Kelleher.

But that would leave Vitezslav Jaros as Alisson’s number two and a youngster like Marcelo Pitaluga in third spot. It would be a gamble on Liverpool’s part.

If a club offered to meet Liverpool’s asking price out of nowhere, we still think the Reds would be minded to do it – and should, given Kelleher clearly has no future at Anfield.

If not, though, it is surely now Caoimhin’s final year with Liverpool regardless.