After years of serving as Liverpool’s trusted understudy to Alisson Becker, Caoimhin Kelleher is lastly stepping right into a beginning function – 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 exchange Mark Flekken, who not too long ago made the change to Bayer Leverkusen.
“I don’t assume it was very tough for me to depart [Liverpool],” Kelleher stated 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.
In line with 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 charge ever obtained by an Irish membership.
Chatting with The Irish Instances, Ringmahon Rangers chairman Paul Higgins stated: “It’s going to set us up for lengthy into the long run.”
“I’m very comfortable,” he added. “Very comfortable for Caoimhín himself, to start with, and his household. We at all times believed that [Caoimhín] could be successful.”
Now, thanks to 1 career-defining transfer, Kelleher has not solely secured his personal future—however modified the course of his boyhood membership’s too.
