{"id":262963,"date":"2025-07-14T01:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/262963\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T01:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:12:10","slug":"liverpool-summer-signings-respond-to-debuts-vs-preston-as-history-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/262963\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool summer signings respond to debuts vs Preston as history made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giorgi Mamardashvili and Milos Kerkez both made their Liverpool debuts against Preston North End<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_GettyImages-2224287830.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Giorgi Mamardashvili looks on during the pre-season friendly football match between Preston North End and Liverpool at Deepdale stadium in Preston, north-west England on July 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Giorgi Mamardashvili has sent a message to Liverpool supporters as he shared his pride at making his unofficial debut for the club. The goalkeeper completed his move to the Reds earlier this summer, after a \u00a329m deal was agreed with Valencia last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The 24-year-old has become the first Georgian player in<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/liverpool-fc\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> Liverpool<\/a>\u2019s history, and he made his first appearance for the club in Sunday\u2019s pre-season friendly win over Preston North End.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Starting in goal, the shot-stopper kept a clean sheet in the first half before being replaced by fellow debutant Freddie Woodman, as <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/liverpool-brought-together-emotional-moment-32050792\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">the Reds ran out 3-1 winners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/liverpool-player-ratings-darwin-nunez-32050774\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool player ratings as Darwin Nunez, Rio Ngumoha and one more impressive<\/a>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/darwin-nunez-reminder-sent-liverpool-32050814\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darwin Nunez reminder sent as Liverpool striker gets biggest cheers for response to scoring<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Mamardashvili had not yet spoken as a Liverpool player following his move to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/anfield\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Anfield<\/a>, with the tragic death of Diogo Jota understandably preventing any media unveiling at the start of pre-season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">But the Georgian has now taken to social media following his first appearance for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cHello Reds,\u201d he wrote on Instagram. \u201cSpecial moment in my life. making my debut for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/liverpool-fc\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool FC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cI\u2019m proud to be the first Georgian player to represent this legendary club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cI know what this means for my family and for all the Georgian people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThank you for the support. This is just the beginning\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He would finish his post by writing #YNWA and posting a heart emoji.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Meanwhile, fellow debutant Milos Kerkez also took to Instagram after his first appearance for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Hungarian joined Liverpool in a \u00a340m deal from AFC Bournemouth, and was introduced at half-time in the victory over Preston North End.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sharing a picture of the players clapping along in front of supporters as they sang Diogo Jota\u2019s chant after the final whistle, along with images of the left-back in action on his unofficial debut, he wrote: \u201cWe stay together, we are Liverpool!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He would also finish his post by including a heart emoji and #YNWA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giorgi Mamardashvili and Milos Kerkez both made their Liverpool debuts against Preston North EndGiorgi Mamardashvili looks on during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,18517,393,9425,4884,179,763,16123,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-262963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-diogo-jota","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-giorgi-mamardashvili","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-liverpool-fc","15":"tag-milos-kerkez","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114848933039710762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}