Liverpool's goalkeeper planning is getting louder, with Bart Verbruggen emerging as a possible option if the club has to think beyond Alisson. The Brighton goalkeeper is 24, and Liverpool are already carrying a £30m investment in Giorgi Mamardashvili, signed in the summer of 2025 as Alisson's long-term successor. Alisson is 34 and his contract expires next summer.
Liverpool's goalkeeper contingency plan
Pete O’Rourke's line to football365.com was straightforward enough. "Liverpool, like all the top clubs, will be doing homework on a number of players and they’ll have contingency plans in place." He then added that Liverpool, along with other leading sides in Europe, will be keeping tabs on Verbruggen because he is a top-quality player who keeps showing it for Brighton.
That is where the interest sits right now. O’Rourke said Verbruggen would be one of the names Liverpool could look at if they are forced to sign a replacement for Alisson, but the reporting stops well short of saying he is the answer already. Liverpool are being linked with him as a possible replacement, not as a confirmed signing.
Verbruggen's age makes the interest easier to understand. He has a 7.64 rating across four Netherlands appearances and 360 minutes in recent Nations League action, and a 7.11 rating across two League Cup appearances at club level. Those are the sort of numbers that keep a goalkeeper in view when a big club is trying to get ahead of a contract problem rather than react to it.
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