Juventus have the contract signed, the manager pushing, and now Liverpool's €15 million Alisson call
Alisson Becker has agreed personal terms with Juventus on a contract running to 2029 at €5 million a season, leaving Liverpool's decision on whether to accept a reported €15 million bid as the only thing standing between him and a summer move to Turin.
The framing has shifted in the last week. Two weeks ago this was a Juventus pursuit and a Liverpool brick wall. Now Alisson, on a deal that does not run out until 2027, has signed off on what Turin are offering, Luciano Spalletti is publicly pushing for him to be in the squad ahead of next season, and FSG are the ones who have to decide whether €15 million plus a free-of-wages season are worth letting a 33-year-old No. 1 walk twelve months before the contract was due to run down.
The 15 million euro question
€15 million is not a huge number for a goalkeeper of Alisson's level, and it is not nothing for one with two years left on his deal. Liverpool's instinct under FSG has always been to hold a player into his last twelve months and sell at the back of the queue rather than the front. The counter-argument is the one Juventus are quietly betting on: by next summer Alisson is 34, the Saudi market is no longer guaranteed to clear €15 million for a keeper of that age, and the asset depreciation curve is steeper than the football one.
Alisson, for his part, is not the one pushing. Reports out of Merseyside have been consistent that he is not agitating for the move and will leave the call to the club. That is a useful position to take when you have already agreed €5 million a year for the next four summers behind the scenes.
If he goes, who actually replaces him
Giorgi Mamardashvili is the obvious answer and not the obvious answer. The Georgian was signed last summer as the first move of the Arne Slot era with this exact succession in mind, and his first season behind Alisson was supposed to be the runway. But the noises out of the club are that the 25-year-old is not yet seen as ready to be unquestioned No. 1, and that has opened the door to a parallel search.
Porto's Diogo Costa keeps being named as the preferred external option, with Bart Verbruggen at Brighton and Emiliano Martínez at Aston Villa on the same list. None of those three is cheap, none would be a like-for-like upgrade on a fit Alisson, and signing one of them would also park Mamardashvili a year longer than he was meant to be parked. Liverpool would essentially be paying for the privilege of selling Alisson at €15 million and then spending several times that on a new keeper they did not need to buy.
That arithmetic is exactly why a third scenario is in play too. Liverpool reject the bid, Juventus go elsewhere, and the Brazilian plays out his 2026-27 with no offer table behind the scenes the next time around. From the club's point of view that is the conservative option, and from Alisson's it is the option that leaves €20 million of new wages on the floor. By the end of next week Anfield will probably have decided which of the three it can live with.
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