Caoimhin Kelleher makes honest Liverpool transfer admission - 'Worked out for me'

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He progressed through the ranks, stepped up to first-team football in 2019, and made his competitive senior debut in a Carabao Cup tie against MK Dons that September.Over several years, Kelleher established himself as Liverpool's trusted no.2 behind Alisson. He amassed just shy of 70 appearances across all competitions and played an integral role during the team's Premier League title-winning campaign last season, as well as the Carabao Cup triumphs in 2022 and 2024.READ MORE: Liverpool in 'advanced talks' over transfer as Nico Schlotterbeck decision madeREAD MORE: Mohamed Salah transfer stance as Liverpool option emerges after Arne Slot decisionKelleher was also among the substitutes when the Reds lifted the Champions League in 2019, the club's sixth European Cup.

"I was there 10 years – started when I was 16 at the Academy, and then all the way through, probably about five years with the first team."But I never had any loans or anything like that. When you come in and you play well, that's exactly what people say straight away [that I need to be playing first team football].

But the frustration for me was that people think it's just straightforward – that I can just leave."As if I play well and then I just go into Liverpool and say, 'Right, I'm going. But it worked out well for me in the end at Liverpool."So far this season, Kelleher has started all 14 of Brentford's Premier League matches.