Caoimhin Kelleher will stay at Liverpool. This is because Nottingham Forest will have to look elsewhere for a new goalkeeper on transfer deadline day on the day the transfer bid was rejected.
Liverpool have rejected a bid for goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher.Kelleher has supported Liverpool’s regular starter Alisson with most of this season reduced to cup games.
He made just two Premier League appearances when his team-mate was injured. But Jurgen Klopp does not want Kelleher to leave the club in January and has changed Forest’s approach.
Manchester United rejected the offer at the City Ground and have no intention of selling the Irishman, whose contract expires in 2026. Kelleher has made 10 starts in the Europa League and Carabao Cup this season and is set to start in the final against Chelsea later this month.
Liverpool are keen on the 25-year-old, according to reports, with James Trafford highlighting his £19million move from Manchester City to Burnley. Liverpool believe Kelleher can progress further and consider him more important than Forest’s offer.Jurgen Klopp’s potential successor explains why Liverpool are firing.
Klopp, who will leave at the end of the season, acknowledged Kelleher’s ability to fight for a first-team place. The German coach praised his number two goalkeeper when he replaced Alisson.He said: “We see him in training every day. He has a special talent.
Maybe we don’t say that name often, but John Achterberg (goalie coach) told me from the first day I got here that this kid is going to be our son.”Since then I have seen him every step of the way. He was a boy and now he is a man.
The best goalkeeper without a doubt. He’s a sober guy most of the time and we won’t be seeing him celebrating a clean slate at the bar tonight! This is not a problem. Caoimh is ready for it and wants it now.”
