After years of serving as Liverpool’s trusted understudy to Alisson Becker, Caoimhin Kelleher is lastly stepping right into a beginning position – becoming a member of Brentford in a deal value as much as £18 million.
The Republic of Eire worldwide arrives on the Bees for an preliminary £12.5 million, with a possible £5.5 million in performance-based add-ons. He’ll substitute Mark Flekken, who just lately made the change to Bayer Leverkusen.
“I don’t suppose it was very troublesome for me to depart [Liverpool],” Kelleher mentioned after finishing the transfer. “I felt for my very own profession that the time was proper for me to go, to be a primary and to play each week.”
The transfer does not simply mark a brand new chapter for Kelleher and Brentford – it’s additionally a transformative second for his boyhood membership, Ringmahon Rangers.
Based on The Solar, when Kelleher signed for Liverpool from Ringmahon at age 16 in 2015, a 20% sell-on clause was included within the deal. That clause now entitles the Munster Senior League aspect – who play within the third tier of Irish soccer – to a windfall of round £2.5 million, the most important sell-on price ever obtained by an Irish membership.
Talking to The Irish Occasions, Ringmahon Rangers chairman Paul Higgins mentioned: “It’s going to set us up for lengthy into the long run.”
“I’m very pleased,” he added. “Very pleased for Caoimhín himself, to begin with, and his household. We all the time believed that [Caoimhín] could be successful.”
Now, thanks to at least one career-defining transfer, Kelleher has not solely secured his personal future—however modified the course of his boyhood membership’s too.
