Caoimhin Kelleher transforms way forward for boyhood membership with Brentford switch

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 price 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 lately made the swap to Bayer Leverkusen.

“I don’t assume it was very tough for me to go away [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 accordance 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 biggest sell-on payment ever acquired by an Irish membership.

Talking to 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 blissful,” he added. “Very blissful for Caoimhín himself, initially, 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.