{"id":21587,"date":"2024-08-25T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/alisson-becker-liverpool-goalkeeper-rejected-saudi-arabia-move\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T10:07:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T10:07:24","slug":"alisson-becker-liverpool-goalkeeper-rejected-saudi-arabia-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/alisson-becker-liverpool-goalkeeper-rejected-saudi-arabia-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Alisson Becker: Liverpool goalkeeper rejected Saudi Arabia move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker says he turned down a move to Saudi Arabia this summer because he is &#8220;really happy&#8221; at Anfield.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Brazilian joined the Reds in 2018 in a \u00a366.8m move from Roma, making him the most expensive goalkeeper in the world at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alisson, 31, has won the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, EFL Cup and Club World Cup during his 261 appearances for the Reds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fabinho, Roberto Firmino and Jordan Henderson all left Liverpool for Saudi Arabia in 2023 but Alisson says he wants to remain on Merseyside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to honour my contract and finish my contract here or make a new one. I am really happy here. My family is happy,&#8221; said Alisson, whose contract runs until 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I never got to the point where I was talking about wages and things like this. It was just interest, but when you hear about the numbers the other players are getting you are a little bit attracted. That is normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alisson added &#8220;now is not the time&#8221; for a move to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cd9d71vv5yjo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">closing in on the signing<\/a> of Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili to provide competition for Alisson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Georgia international, 23, is set to move to Anfield in a deal worth a reported \u00a330m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I knew about that [Mamardashvili] before it came out on social media and that is a good message for me because the club cares about what I think,&#8221; said Alisson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are doing the right thing but, on my side, as long as I have my contract here and as long as I am happy here, the club is happy with me, my family is happy here, [so] I will stay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5y307wwk7do\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker says he turned down a move to Saudi Arabia this summer because he is &#8220;really happy&#8221; at Anfield. The Brazilian joined the Reds in 2018 in a \u00a366.8m move from Roma, making him the most expensive goalkeeper in the world at the time. Alisson, 31, has won the Premier League, Champions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21589,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions\/21589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}