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Giorgi Mamardashvili will join Bournemouth on loan before becoming a Liverpool player in 2025 in a deal worth up to €40M for Valencia.
Liverpool’s efforts to sign 23-year-old Valencia and Georgia rising star goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili look set to move ahead after reports out of Spain claimed that Bournemouth have agreed to pay a loan fee of around €5M for the upcoming season.
The rather complicated sale agreement would see Liverpool pay a base €30M transfer fee, with the first instalment paid to Valencia this summer and that with add-ons could rise to €35M, while Bournemouth pay Valencia €5M for the stopper’s services on loan for the upcoming season.
Mamardashvili would then be free to join the Reds in the summer of 2025 dependant on whether Liverpool need a new number one at that point, which is something few expected them to need previously with Alisson Becker’s contract running through 2027.
Now, though, there are clear questions about Alisson’s future—questions he and manager Arne Slot will now be pressed on over the course of the upcoming season—though it’s not impossible that the 23-year-old Mamardashvili could remain on loan at Bournemouth beyond 2023-24.
Liverpool’s delayed purchase agreement with Valencia for the goalkeeper is perhaps most reminiscent of their purchase of Naby Keïta in 2017 that saw the player remain an RB Leipzig player until the summer of 2018, only Mamardashvili will be loaned out for a year.
That loan, with Bournemouth paying a loan fee to Valencia, helps to meet the selling club’s valuation of the player while Bournemouth pay Mamardashvili a higher wage than Valencia could. It will also, Liverpool will hope, help him adjust to English football and develop his distribution game.
