Caoimhin Kelleher admits it wasn’t his determination to remain at Liverpool this summer time as he reiterated his want to grow to be a No 1 goalkeeper.
Liverpool rejected a money plus participant provide from Nottingham Forest in the direction of the tip of the window as a result of it didn’t come near assembly their £30million valuation.
The 25-year-old had been open to transferring on as he wished to play repeatedly quite than proceed as back-up to Alisson.
Forest’s proposed deal had consisted of £7m plus goalkeeper Matt Turner, however Liverpool weren’t within the USMNT ‘keeper. Forest additionally had a bid of round £15m rejected in January.
With Liverpool agreeing a £29m deal for Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili, who will transfer to Anfield in the summertime of 2025, Kelleher believes his future lies elsewhere.
“I feel I’ve made it clear in the previous couple of years that I wish to go and be a primary and play week in, week out,” he instructed a press convention in Dublin forward of the Republic of Eire’s Nations League conflict with Greece on Tuesday.
“The membership have made that call to get one other goalkeeper in as nicely which, clearly from the surface wanting in, seems to be like they’ve decided to go in a special route.
“So yeah, my ambitions have all the time been clear and has been clear the previous couple of seasons that I wish to go and be a primary.
“Generally from the surface wanting in, it seems to be like perhaps that’s 100 per cent my determination however perhaps at instances it’s not all the time in my fingers as nicely.”
Kelleher performed 10 instances within the Premier League final season and his Liverpool contract runs till 2026.
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Liverpool’s Caoimhin Kelleher interview: ‘The subsequent step is for me to be a No 1’
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