Impending new arrival Giorgi Mamardashvili has been warned to not take a beginning place for Liverpool as a given as soon as he arrives at Anfield this summer season.
The arrival of the Georgian worldwide, ranked at no.10 in FourFourTwo’s checklist of the perfect goalkeepers on this planet proper now, was introduced final summer season, however he has remained at troubled Valencia for one last season earlier than making the transfer to Merseyside.
That has led to hypothesis over the way forward for present Liverpool first selection Alisson amid rumours he could also be bought alongside long-standing deputy Caoimhin Kelleher.
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However that supposition could also be extensive of the mark, as switch knowledgeable journalist Ben Jacobs predicts that Alisson’s place isn’t robotically going to be misplaced, telling FourFourTwo on January 13: “I believe extra probably at this stage that Alisson welcomes the competitors and can maintain the no.1 spot.
“Mamardashvili should battle his means into that Premier League beginning line-up over an extended time frame.
“[We’ve seen before where] Liverpool have signed a participant for the now and the longer term, however they maintain the participant they worth, and there is a transition season or interval.
“So there is not any indication that Alisson goes to be form of immediately dropped, and that implies that Mamardashvili has time to acclimatise. As soon as once more, that is how Liverpool’s recruitment mannequin works
“However what it means is that for those who’re Kelleher, you begin to realise you are too far down the pecking order.
“He needs to be a no.1 someplace, and will must exit the soccer membership in the summertime so as to do this. “
Alisson has struggled with intermittent accidents over the previous couple of seasons and been preferred with a transfer to Saudi Arabia.
The Brazilian worldwide arrived at Liverpool in 2018 and has gone on to rank himself in FourFourTwo’s checklist of the perfect Premier League goalkeepers of all time.
