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Liverpool followers have been given their first glimpse of a long-anticipated arrival — and it’s lastly occurring.
Fabrizio Romano has confirmed that Giorgi Mamardashvili is now travelling to Merseyside after spending the 2024/25 season at Valencia.
Posting to his X accountRomano shared a photograph of the Georgian goalkeeper and his agent Levan Seturidze aboard a personal jet, captioned: “🚨✈️ Giorgi Mamardashvili and his agent Levan Seturidze, on their strategy to Liverpool. New addition for Arne Slot. 🛑🇬🇪”
The identical picture was initially shared by Mamardashvili himself on his official account @Mamardashvili25, marking the primary time followers have seen him in transit to start life as a Crimson.
The 24-year-old was signed from Valencia for £25m plus £4m in add-ons final summer season (by way of The Athletic), however remained with the La Liga aspect all through the marketing campaign.
Now anticipated to function Alisson Becker’s No.2 for the approaching season, Mamardashvili will report for obligation alongside the remainder of the squad when Arne Slot’s second pre-season as Liverpool head coach begins.
Slot’s summer season squad modifications proceed to take form
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Mamardashvili is one in every of a number of arrivals who will meet their new teammates for the primary time this summer season.
The 6’6” shot-stopper impressed throughout 2024/25 with Valencia, incomes plaudits for his commanding presence and distribution — areas the membership clearly recognized as priorities in a post-Kelleher setup.
Slot has already introduced in Freddie Woodman on a free switch from Preston and Armin Pecsi, a 20-year-old from Puskas Akademia, additional reinforcing the goalkeeping group.
With Caoimhin Kelleher bought to Brentford, Vitezslav Jaros heading to Ajax and Harvey Davies heading to Crawley City on mortgage, the arrival of Mamardashvili marks a key second within the membership’s long-term planning between the sticks.
The goalkeeper division has modified so much this summer season
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With Claudio Taffarel leaving the membership, Alisson’s future has come underneath some hypothesis and that’s dangerous information for everybody – besides our new Georgian stopper.
Our new goalkeeper coach has already been confirmed and this has been a transitional summer season already, with this space of the pitch altering greater than wherever else.
And with Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez already unveiled, Liverpool’s summer season rebuild is already effectively underway.
Mamardashvili’s arrival provides one other layer of depth to a squad aiming to defend the Premier League title in 2025/26.
You possibly can view the picture of Mamardashvili by way of his X account:
🛩️🔴 pic.twitter.com/eD2PLCcmdY
— Gio Mamardashvili (@Mamardashvili25) July 2, 2025
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