Giorgi Mamardashvili has been warned that the writing is on the wall for his Liverpool career because of Lucca Brughmans’ transfer.The goalkeeper has firmly been established as second-choice at Anfield since officially arriving at the club in 2025.Mamardashvili largely impressed in Liverpool’s League Cup win over TottenhamAFPMamardashvili was announced by the Reds in a £30million deal from Valencia ahead of the 2024/25 season but spent that campaign on loan at the Spanish club.He arrived at Anfield properly off the back of Liverpool‘s Premier League title triumph but endured a frustrating first 12 months.The 25-year-old played 20 times in all competitions, including ten Premier League appearances to cover the injured Alisson Becker.But he failed to impress between the sticks, shipping 34 goals across his 20 outings, while keeping just three clean sheets in total.Any hope of Mamardashvili becoming first-choice at Liverpool was then extinguished when the Reds blocked Alisson’s exit last summer.As a result, the former Dinamo Tbilisi goalkeeper has only played one competitive game under Andoni Iraola – the 3-1 win in the Carabao Cup over Tottenham last week.However, his long-term future looked bleaker still when Liverpool completed the signing of 18-year-old Brughmans from Genk.The young Belgian – dubbed the ‘next Thibaut Courtois’ – has joined the Reds on a long-term contract in a package deal worth €35m (£29.9m), but won’t officially arrive until next summer.Giorgi Mamardashvili transfer futureAsked if Brughmans’ imminent arrival means the writing is on the wall for Mamardashvili, European football expert Andy Brassell told talkSPORT.com: “Yeah, I think so.Liverpool won just three of Mamardashvili’s 10 Premier League games last season and lost six“It’s hard because Mamardashvili hasn’t really had a go. I think there was an expectation that Alisson would go in the medium term. “It hasn’t happened, and Mamardashvili is not an old goalkeeper. There’s still time for him to develop, and it’s going to take a little while, I think. But what he clearly needs is first-team football.“Someone needs to really get him out there and get that, because in there, there’s a really, really good goalkeeper. “But what I feel pretty certain about is he’s not going to be first choice for Liverpool, which is a shame. But it’s just how it is. “Everyone just has to take the loss and move on, I think.”Brughmans, meanwhile, is a graduate of Genk’s youth system – the same academy which produced Courtois and Chelsea‘s Mike Penders.Aged just 18, Brughmans has already established himself as Genk’s No.1AFPWho is Lucca Brughman?“He is a player that is really hard not to throw Thibaut Courtois into this discussion,” Brassell added to talkSPORT.“Not just because they both come from Genk, but because he wears the same shirt at Genk that Thibaut Courtois used to wear. The 28. “He is a player who has that sort of size, has that presence about him as well. One area in which I think he stands out as above and beyond most goalkeepers, not just of his age, but a lot of goalkeepers, period, is brilliant on the ball.“He’s a really, really gifted distributor with feet and hands. So that feels like a massive deal if we’re talking about eventual successors to Alisson. And I wonder if that’s the trick. “If you sign Brughman now, maybe you do move on Mamardashvili.Brughmans looks set to enter Liverpool’s long-term goalkeeper conversationAFP“If you’re Liverpool and you’ve got a feeling that he’s never going to be your first-choice goalkeeper and you think that Bruggemans is going to be it. Get Brughman, get him to learn off Alisson. “To squeeze that last little bit out of Alisson, I think, would be really helpful. It would be a great little finishing score for him.“And Mamardashvili, who I really like as a goalkeeper, is he quite good enough to replace Alisson? I think there’s got to be a question mark over that. With Brughman, you can see exactly where it’s going.“Someone who’s big, someone who dominates the area, someone who, a little bit like Peter Schmeichel actually, is a little bit unorthodox in terms of the saves he makes as well.“He does everything on his own terms, which I quite like. But he’s someone who is clearly a big personality as well, who I think could get there in a reasonable time. “I can see why so many people are excited by him and why a lot of people think he could follow in the footsteps of Courtois.”