Most complete’… Liverpool player Nottingham Forest bid £15m for is ‘outstanding’

Nottingham Forest signed Matz Sels in the January transfer window, but Nuno’s

side wanted to bring in Caoimhin Kelleher from Liverpool instead.

Nottingham Forest linked with January move for Caoimhin Kelleher

Forest who are aiming to avoid the dreaded drop to the Championship at

the end of the season, made an offer of £15 million for Kelleher. Liverpool rejected it.

With Alisson now injured, Kelleher is playing first-team football for Liverpool.

Manager Jurgen Klopp has raved about him previously, and now assistant

manager Pepijn Lijnders has spoken highly of him.

 

The 25-year-old Republic of Ireland international goalkeeper is set to start

for Liverpool against Premier League rivals Chelsea in the final of the Carabao Cup on Sunday.

Praise for Caoimhin Kelleher

Lijnders told Liverpool’s official website about Kelleher: “I still know his first

game. Derby away [with] nobody watching. On a pitch, not a main pitch,

they put us on like the sixth pitch or something… I still know. He saved a

penalty there and you saw a boy [at] 15 years old, not in an easy situation at that

time, [he] had his trial game and with his feet [he] already impressed me. I’m

not sure, but I think he played on the pitch for many years until he became a

goalie. We all know about his strengths. I’m really pleased for him what’s happening.

For a club like Liverpool, we need two good goalkeepers. I’m really happy that

we have. It’s really special and a compliment for John [Achterberg], for

Jack [Robinson] and for Taffa [Claudio Taffarel] and for the guys at the

Academy, because we produce some good goalkeepers already, but Caoimhin

is probably the most outstanding one and who is most complete.

“He can make match-winning saves, he has this and he sees the game, he

knowshow to act as the free player, he knows when to play with direction and

his calmness and his serenity creates calmness for the others.

 

“Especially how we want to play, if you want to manage the ball from the back,

to find one-v-one situations, to create better one-v-one situations… it’s really

important to have a goalkeeper like that. Again, the culture, own players, it’s cool.”

 

Forest signed former Newcastle United goalkeeper Matz Sels in the end after

failing to secure the services of Kelleher.

 

It will be interesting to see what happens with Kelleher in the future. I

would not be surprised if the Republic of Ireland international goalkeeper did

decide to move away from Liverpool at the end of the season.

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