Liverpool have signed 20-year-old goalkeeper Armin Pecsi, who could soon be joined by another Hungarian as the Reds get close to landing Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth
Armin Pecsi
Armin Pecsi has joined Liverpool for £1.5m(Image: Getty Images)
Liverpool have signed goalkeeper Armin Pecsi from Hungarian side Puskas Akademia. The 20-year-old has joined the Reds for £1.5million after completing a medical and signing his contract on Saturday.
Pecsi is expected to join Liverpool’s under-21s, although he will get the chance to train with first-team goalkeeper Alisson Becker and new signing Giorgi Mamardashvili. He joins the club after Caoimhin Kelleher left Liverpool to become Brentford’s first-choice keeper for £18m.
Although young, Pecsi has plenty of experience, having made 52 appearances in all competitions for Puskas Akademia, keeping 15 clean sheets. He made 30 appearances across the 2024/25 season, helping the club finish second in the Hungarian top flight.
He has also clocked up five appearances for the Hungary under-21 side and was nominated for the prestigious 2025 Golden Boy award. The youngster is the second Hungarian in the Liverpool squad, alongside Dominik Szoboszlai, although that number could become three, with the club pushing to sign Bournemouth left-back Milos Kerkez.
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Kerkez has left the Hungary camp ahead of a match against Azerbaijan due to ‘private reasons’. Those are understood to be connected to a pending move from Bournemouth to Liverpool, with all parties wanting to avoid any injuries in the closing stages of negotiations.
Pecsi is the second signing of the summer transfer window, following Jeremie Frimpong in joining the club. Frimpong has signed a five-year deal with Liverpool after the club paid Bayer Leverkusen £29.5m for his services in the wake of Trent Alexander-Arnold leaving for Real Madrid.
Mamardashvili, meanwhile, was officially signed last summer, but was immediately loaned back to Valencia for the 2024/25 campaign. He will now join up with Arne Slot’s squad, effectively taking Kelleher’s place as the second-choice keeper behind Alisson.
Milos Kerkez
Milos Kerkez is closing in on a move to Liverpool(Image: Getty Images)
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Liverpool also remain in talks with Leverkusen over a potential British-record deal for Florian Wirtz, having offered £113m for the playmaker. That bid, made up of £100m upfront with around £13m in bonuses, is still short of Leverkusen’s asking price of £126.4m (€150m).
Meanwhile, Liverpool have released seven players. Dominic Corness, Louis Enahoro-Marcus, Harry Evers, Lee Jonas, Jakub Ojrzynski, Jacob Poytress and Reece Trueman, none of whom had played for the first team, have all departed the new Premier League champions and will search for new clubs.
Florian Wirtz
Liverpool are closing in on a deal for Florian Wirtz(Image: Getty Images)
Further departures are expected, with Darwin Nunez, Harvey Elliott, Andy Robertson and Federico Chiesa among those who could leave. Chiesa only joined Liverpool last summer from Juventus for £10m, but he has struggled for game time under Slot and wants to leave.
He told Corriere dello Sport: "At the beginning I felt the frustration of the radical change and of being far behind the group, then there was the injury. Could I start to discuss the choices of Slot who has always been very respectful towards me, as well as the club? The desire to play was there, I put it aside, I understood the situation."
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