{"id":192752,"date":"2024-06-24T16:41:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/24\/liverpool-goalkeeper-verbally-agrees-return-to-boyhood-club\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T16:41:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:41:36","slug":"liverpool-goalkeeper-verbally-agrees-return-to-boyhood-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/24\/liverpool-goalkeeper-verbally-agrees-return-to-boyhood-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool goalkeeper \u2018verbally agrees\u2019 return to boyhood club \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian is expected to\u00a0join\u00a0former club Real Betis when his contract expires this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Reds, who have Caoimhin Kelleher on the books as Alisson Becker\u2019s understudy, have opted not to renew Adrian\u2019s deal for the 2024\/25 season and he will officially leave the club at the end of June when his current contract runs out.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old has long been linked with a move back to Spain late in his career, and it appears he will reunite with his boyhood side.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fabrizio Romano<\/em>\u00a0reports that there is a \u2018verbal agreement\u2019 in place with Betis over a return to the south of Spain, with only \u2018formal steps\u2019 to follow before confirmation of the deal is announced in July.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian, who was born and raised in Seville where Betis are based, spent 14 years in Los Verdiblancos\u2019 youth and reserve teams before he finally made his breakthrough during the 2012\/13 campaign. After only one season in the first team, he was\u00a0sold\u00a0to West Ham United and his 11-year stay in English football began.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/01j151g3xw7v1x8hvkfj.jpg\" alt=\"Pepe Mel, Adrian San Miguel\" title=\"Pepe Mel, Adrian San Miguel\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Adrian is heading back to Betis \/ Denis Doyle\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>After initially serving as understudy to Jussi Jaaskelainen, Adrian became West Ham\u2019s first-choice goalkeeper soon after signing, but would in turn be usurped by Lukasz Fabianski in the following years.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian\u2019s West Ham contract expired in 2019 and he joined\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0on a free transfer that summer. He was quickly thrown into action after Alisson picked up an injury on the opening day of the Premier League season. In his second match for the Reds, Adrian won the first trophy of his career, putting in a fine performance as Liverpool beat Chelsea in the UEFA Super Cup on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian will leave Liverpool after making 26 appearances across a five-year spell, winning five trophies in that time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian is expected to\u00a0join\u00a0former club Real Betis when his contract expires this month. The Reds, who have Caoimhin Kelleher on the books as Alisson Becker\u2019s understudy, have opted not to renew Adrian\u2019s deal for the 2024\/25 season and he will officially leave the club at the end of June when his current contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liverpool goalkeeper \u2018verbally agrees\u2019 return to boyhood club \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/24\/liverpool-goalkeeper-verbally-agrees-return-to-boyhood-club\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liverpool goalkeeper \u2018verbally agrees\u2019 return to boyhood club \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian is expected to\u00a0join\u00a0former club Real Betis when his contract expires this month. 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