Chelsea transfer target, Caoimhin Kelleher has reportedly been urged by Jurgen Klopp to leave Liverpool for regular first team football.
At Anfield, the 25-year-old Republic of Ireland international is well-liked and has shown promise while filling in for Alisson on several occasions, particularly this season, when he kept four clean sheets in eight games. He hasn’t, and probably won’t, permanently take the place of the Brazilian, though.
Kelleher is lucky to have plenty of admirers who would give him regular football elsewhere. And now that the Reds have agreed to sign Georgia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili ahead of next season, he is prepared to leave Anfield permanently.
According to The Sun as reported by The Mirror, Chelsea are the most recent team to express interest in him. Liverpool’s Premier League rivals are prepared to pay £35 million to get the Irishman.
Former Liverpool manager, Klopp in his final months in the Anfield hotseat has tipped Kelleher to leave the club if he continues to have limited opportunities.
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Kelleher says Klopp urged him to seek regular football elsewhere, explaining: “He had some nice words for me. I was with him for a number of years and he said, ‘You became a brilliant goalkeeper in that time.’ He is going to follow my career wherever I go. He wants to see me playing and to be happy.
“The season I’ve had, I’ve played a lot of games and had that taste this season of being a number one. Whether that’s at Liverpool or elsewhere, that remains to be seen. My main focus at the moment is to be number one.”
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