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25th August 2018
08:55pm BST

"He’s really looking forward to it, which is good. It’s good for him. I really think Loris is a fantastic goalkeeper, at a very good age. "A lot of people spoke to me about our improved defensive things, but as good as Alisson has been in the last three games, he was not here for the games before that, it was Loris in goal and he did a lot of good things. "Besiktas have quite an experienced team so I think they have a good chance to win the league in Turkey, so that’s cool. Now they have a really good goalkeeper, I’m really happy for him and he is happy with the opportunity as well. All good. "We have Simon Mignolet here, a wonderful, perfect goalkeeper for us now, plus the two kids. That’s the situation for us."One of those 'kids', of course is Ireland underage international Caoimhin Kelleher, who made a number of pre-season appearances for the Reds and will be hoping for senior action over the course of the season. The Liverpool boss praised Kelleher ahead of a victory over Manchester United, in which the 19-year-old kept a clean sheet as a second half sub in front of 96,000 fans.
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