Alisson Rejects Juventus and Commits to Liverpool Until 2027

ESPN Brasil confirmed this week that Alisson has turned down Juventus and committed to completing his contract at Liverpool, where a triggered extension clause holds him at Anfield through the summer of 2027. The announcement landed two days after Andoni Iraola was confirmed as Liverpool’s new head coach on a two-year deal, giving the Brazilian goalkeeper a new manager to begin with rather than a fresh club.

Juventus had been in formal contact since April. Personal terms reached an advanced stage per La Gazzetta dello Sport, and transfer reporter Fabrizio Romano confirmed on his YouTube channel that the offer ran to two seasons with a third as an option, at wages considerably above what a one-year extension could provide. Liverpool’s position, set by sporting director Richard Hughes and communicated directly to Alisson and his camp, outlasted Arne Slot’s dismissal, Juventus’s persistence and what multiple sources described as the goalkeeper’s genuine interest in exploring an exit.

A Deal From Turin

Juventus arrived at their summer transfer window with a clear problem at goalkeeper. Michele Di Gregorio, the Italian international, had a difficult 2025-26 Serie A season, conceding regularly from first shots on target, and the club’s hierarchy concluded that a significant upgrade was essential before 2026-27.

The bid had a personal pull beyond salary. Luciano Spalletti, appointed Juventus head coach following his tenure with the Italian national team, managed Alisson at Roma during the two seasons before Liverpool paid around £65 million for his services in 2018. A reunion in Turin carried weight that a contract figure alone couldn’t explain, and Romano acknowledged this week that Alisson “was tempted by Juventus, for sure.”

Liverpool’s stance was clear throughout: Alisson was not available. The former manager had reportedly turned down the goalkeeper’s own request to explore a move, citing the cumulative loss of leadership with Salah, Robertson and Konate all departing. When Slot was then dismissed in late May after Liverpool’s fifth-place Premier League finish, Juventus hoped the internal turbulence would prompt a reconsideration. Hughes held the same position. The same week, Juventus saw their Champions League qualification ended on Serie A’s final day, losing 2-2 at home to Torino while Cesc Fabregas’s Como beat Cremonese 4-1 to secure the last spot. A multi-year deal in the Europa League, offered by a club whose season had just unravelled at the finish, was a considerably different proposition from the one tabled in April.

Romano confirmed the message conveyed directly to Alisson’s camp: “Liverpool told Alisson, ‘we want you to stay, we want you to be our goalkeeper, we believe in you.'” The goalkeeper, by Romano’s account, had never intended to force the issue. He arrived at Anfield in 2018 and had too much invested in that relationship to fracture it over one transfer window. ESPN Brasil confirmed the outcome this week: the Juventus bid has been rejected, the contract will be fulfilled.

The Summer Liverpool Couldn’t Afford One More

Three players are leaving Anfield without replacement cost this summer, and the scale of those exits is what turned holding Alisson from a preference into a prerequisite:

• Mohamed Salah, who contributed 29 goals to the 2024-25 Premier League title campaign, departs after eight seasons
• Andy Robertson, first-choice left back for the better part of eight years, leaves as his deal expires
• Ibrahima Konate, the French centre-back, also exits as a free agent

Liverpool backed the previous manager heavily in the prior summer’s transfer market, spending £450 million on arrivals including Florian Wirtz, Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike. The fifth-place finish that led to his dismissal represented, as multiple journalists reported, a severe return on that investment. The squad had also absorbed the death of forward Diogo Jota in a car crash last July, a loss that affected the group through much of the 2025-26 campaign. Adding a fourth high-profile free departure in the same window an incoming manager was being handed the keys was not a scenario Hughes was prepared to accept.

Liverpool triggered the 12-month extension option in Alisson’s contract in March, months before the season finished, as the Juventus interest was already developing. Giorgi Mamardashvili, 25, had arrived from Valencia for an initial fee of £24 million in 2024 and moved to Anfield in 2025 as Alisson’s designated successor, but his debut Liverpool season produced 20 appearances with persistent criticism directed at his distribution. Handing him the number one shirt this summer was not a realistic option.

Over 330 Appearances at Anfield

Alisson started at his boyhood club Internacional de Porto Alegre, signed for Roma in July 2016, then moved to Anfield at 25. The eight seasons since have not been questioned.

• 330+ career appearances for Liverpool across eight seasons
• Honours: Champions League (2019), FIFA Club World Cup (2019), Premier League (2020, 2025), FA Cup (2022), EFL Cup (2022, 2024)
• FIFA Best Men’s Goalkeeper award in 2019, his first full season at the club

He was the foundation of Klopp’s most successful period, anchoring the Champions League campaign in 2018-19 and the first Liverpool Premier League title the following season. In May 2021, playing just weeks after the death of his father, he headed home a corner in the 95th minute against West Brom to win the game 2-1, becoming the first goalkeeper in Liverpool’s history to score a competitive goal and keeping the club’s Champions League qualification alive. He was part of Slot’s 2024-25 squad too, present in the spine that delivered Liverpool their record-equalling 20th English league championship.

Injuries have become more frequent in recent campaigns. He missed 10 matches in 2025-26, primarily through muscle problems, and sat out the round-of-16 first leg against Galatasaray in Istanbul. Liverpool’s calculation on the extension carried two things alongside the trust: a hedge against their backup not being ready, and the option to sell for a fee rather than watch the goalkeeper leave for nothing in June.

Mamardashvili’s Loan Horizon

Confirming Alisson’s stay creates an immediate problem for the goalkeeper behind him. Mamardashvili arrived from Valencia in 2024 with strong credentials from his final seasons in Spain, and the expectation was that a year or two absorbing the culture at Anfield would ready him for the transition. His debut Liverpool season hasn’t moved that timeline forward.

Romano confirmed this week that Liverpool are open to a loan, with Italian clubs in the conversation. Juventus, Inter Milan and Fiorentina have all been mentioned as possible destinations in the Italian press. Spalletti’s club spent the summer negotiating for Alisson as first choice; if Mamardashvili ends up in Turin, Juventus finishes the window with a temporary version of the goalkeeper they couldn’t get.

Vitezslav Jaros, Liverpool’s previous backup who suffered a serious knee injury, is expected to return and could fill the reserve spot during any loan period. At 25, Mamardashvili gains considerably more from a full competitive season at a top European club than from another year in Alisson’s shadow at Anfield. The transition plan that brought him to Liverpool hasn’t been abandoned; it has been pushed back twelve months.

What Iraola Inherits

Iraola arrives at Anfield from Bournemouth, where across three seasons he improved the club’s Premier League standing from 12th to ninth to sixth, qualifying for the Europa League in his final year. Richard Hughes, Liverpool’s sporting director, hired Iraola at Bournemouth in 2023. When Hughes took the Liverpool post, Iraola became his priority to replace Slot.

The handover requires solutions across attack and defence following the three senior departures. A proven, settled goalkeeper removes one item from that list. Liverpool spent the past months ensuring Alisson’s position wasn’t the additional complication Hughes would need to solve this summer.

Iraola’s Bournemouth sides played with high defensive lines and demanded a goalkeeper comfortable with the ball, capable of acting as a sweeper behind a compressed back four. Alisson’s distribution and spatial reading underpinned much of Klopp’s build-up model during Liverpool’s most successful run of the last decade. Whether Iraola builds from a similar framework is one of the early questions heading into 2026-27, but it will be answered by a goalkeeper who has handled every version of that demand across eight years at one club.

One More Season

ESPN Brasil reported this week that Alisson’s plan is to fulfil the final year of his contract and, through the course of 2026-27, evaluate whether to extend his Liverpool stay. An extension hasn’t been ruled out. Neither has a free transfer exit in the summer of 2027 and the return to South America he has spoken about for years.

Speaking to media in 2025, he gave the clearest account of where the instinct eventually points:

I want to return, especially to Inter. I don’t know when it will happen, but I still want to do it at a high level. That’s what I have planned.

Alisson speaking about his long-term goal of returning to Internacional de Porto Alegre, the club where he began his career before signing for Roma in 2016.

Before any of that is relevant, he heads to the 2026 FIFA World Cup as Brazil’s first-choice goalkeeper, with the tournament opening on June 11 in the United States, Canada and Mexico. He returns from that to Liverpool for Iraola’s first pre-season in late July. The plan, per ESPN Brasil, is to finish the year and decide from there.