TOKYO: SOCCEROOS goalkeeper Mitch Langerak will not be joining his international teammates in Tokyo for the World Cup qualifier against Japan, instead remaining in Europe to settle his club future before the transfer window closes.

Bournemouth goalkeeper Adam Federici will join the Socceroos for the World Cup double header against Japan and Thailand, joining Brighton and Hove Albion’s Mat Ryan and Genk’s Danny Vukovic as the three goalkeepers.

Fox Sports understands that Langerak could be about to seal a move to La Liga, with newly promoted Levante, a club based in Valencia, linked as a possible destination.

Mitch Langerak. Source: News Corp Australia

“Mitch has some issues at club level that he needs to resolve,” Ange Postecoglou said. “Speaking with Mitch, it was in our mutual interests that he focus on that at the moment rather than come into camp.

“Adam is a very experienced goalkeeper and we know we will have three very good options in that position for the upcoming matches.”

Langerak, No.2 behind Mat Ryan for Australia, was a hero for Stuttgart in their promotion to the Bundesliga for this season, but found himself playing second fiddle to start the season when Ron-Robert Zieler was signed from Leicester as the club’s new first choice keeper. The club have won one and lost one to start the league campaign in Germany.

Australia’s top three keepers. Source: News Corp Australia

The new custodian even admitted last week that he felt for Langerak, who was so instrumental in the club’s immediate return to the top flight, but that he would do everything in his power to withstand the Australian’s challenge for the top spot.

Langerak’s mooted new club are in a similar position in Spain and have won and lost a game each to start the season, having won the Segunda Division by fourteen points last term.

It brings an end to seven years in Germany for the Melbourne Victory graduate, who worked under Jurgen Klopp at Borussia Dortmund before moving to Stuttgart. He had moved Bundesliga clubs with the prospect of being a top flight No.1, but injury cruelled his maiden season, where he watched on as the club suffered demotion.