Liverpool’s new goalkeeper says he isn’t considering a loan for the 2025-26 season and wants train—and compete—with starter Alisson Becker.
Liverpool’s goalkeeping situation heading into the 2025-26 season is expected to be a little bit complicated—and not because the Reds won’t have high quality options at the position. Instead, the complication will be from having too many.
Even if current second choice Caoimhin Kelleher departs as most expect, the Reds have 24-year-old Georgian international Giorgi Mamardashvili arriving from Valencia a year after agreeing a delayed move for the rising star goalkeeper.
With first choice Alisson Becker showing no signs of slowing down and expected to remain, though, that gives the Reds two stoppers good enough to start for any club. Mamardashvili, though, says he’s content arriving as nominal second choice.
“They are looking at me as the Liverpool goalkeeper for the next ten years,” Mamardashvili told GeoTeam ahead of his move. “So my next step will be the same as it was in Valencia, that I go and prove myself and show what I can do.
“The main thing is patience, training, and hard work. Everything else will come. I’m not considering another loan. I will spend next season at Liverpool—I think it will be good and training with Alisson will help me grow and gain experience.”
It certainly sounds like a healthy attitude he will arrive at his new club with. How it plays out in practice remains to be seen, of course, but on paper Liverpool are set to play out the 2025-26 season with an embarrassment of riches in goal.
As has been the case with Kelleher, the expectation will be for Mamardashvili to get both domestic cups while Alisson, when healthy—something that hasn’t always consistently been the case—is first choice for the league and in Europe.