Chelsea 'plotting £35m swoop' for Liverpool star despite having 10 players in his position

Chelsea privation to upgrade connected goalkeeper Robert Sanchez and judge that a £35million connection for Caoimhin Kelleher would unit Liverpool to merchantability astatine the extremity of the season

Chelsea are reportedly acceptable to conscionable Liverpool’s valuation for Caoimhin Kelleher successful the summertime transportation window.

Kelleher has caught the eye for Liverpool successful caller weeks portion standing successful for the injured Alisson successful goal. He has 4 cleanable sheets successful his 8 games for Liverpool this season, helping Arne Slot’s broadside to triumph six and gully 1 of the 7 matches since Alisson went down with a hamstring wounded connected October 5.

However, his signifier has lone served to item the 25-year-old’s need to permission Anfield successful hunt of much regular football, with Slot making it wide that Alisson volition instrumentality to the starting line-up erstwhile he’s fit. Liverpool signed Giorgi Mamardashvili successful the summertime earlier loaning him backmost to Valencia for the season, meaning Kelleher would apt driblet to third-choice adjacent season.

Chelsea presently person the unreliable Robert Sanchez successful extremity and person identified an accidental to upgrade their goalkeeper. The Sun reports they are consenting to wage £35million to motion Kelleher successful the summer, believing specified a interest volition unit Liverpool’s hand, adjacent if they would alternatively not merchantability to a nonstop rival.

There is reportedly contention from Napoli and Juventus, but Kelleher is understood to similar to enactment successful the Premier League. Chelsea would surely request to offload immoderate goalkeepers were they to motion Kelleher, fixed the ludicrous numbers they presently person connected their books.

Enzo Maresca’s broadside person Sanchez, Filip Jorgensen, Marcus Bettinelli, Djordje Petrovic, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Mike Penders, Gabriel Slonina, Luke Campbell, Ted Curd and Teddy Sharman-Lowe connected the pay-roll, meaning Kelleher would go the 11th goalkeeper.

The Republic of Ireland prima leaving the nine helium joined arsenic a teen successful 2015 appears a substance of time, fixed Kelleher made nary concealed of the information helium was keen to articulation Nottingham Forest successful the summer, but they did not conscionable Liverpool’s £35m valuation. “Obviously my volition is to bash arsenic good arsenic I tin and amusement my ability,” Kelleher explained recently.

“That is wherever my caput is astatine with the situation. The champion happening I tin bash is spell and play good and possibly springiness the manager thing to deliberation about, springiness him a headache.

“But it does enactment some ways. I played truthful galore times past play - and if you bash good your valuation goes up due to the fact that evidently the nine is going to privation a bully profit. I was wide (in the summer) that I wanted to play first-team football, whether that was present oregon elsewhere. I wanted to beryllium a No.1.

“That was my thought process – but it’s ever been my thought process due to the fact that evidently I americium a shot subordinate and similar each player, I privation to play. I’m not going to bask myself oregon beryllium blessed sitting connected the bench.”

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