Liverpool-bound defender Jeremy Jacquet is ready to endure season-ending surgical procedure on his shoulder after inconclusive ache assessments left surgical procedure as the one choice
Jeremy Jacquet has a severe shoulder harm (Picture: Getty)
Liverpool-bound defender Jeremy Jacquet is poised to endure season-ending surgical procedure on his shoulder.
Jacquet agreed to hitch the Reds on a pre-contract association price £55million plus £5m in add-ons final month, with the 20-year-old due at Anfield this summer season. The settlement meant the Frenchman would keep at Rennes for the rest of the marketing campaign, as he aimed to assist Les Rennais’ bid to safe European soccer.
Nonetheless, Jacquet is unlikely to look once more for Rennes this season. Merely 5 days following affirmation of his Liverpool change, Jacquet sustained a major harm to his left shoulder throughout a 3-1 loss at Lens.
Based on Ouest-France, inconclusive ache assessments have left surgical procedure as the only real choice for Jacquet. It is reported that Liverpool maintained contact with Rennes and Jacquet, although haven’t influenced the choice and deferred the ultimate judgement to the Ligue 1 membership and the participant.
With Jacquet going through weeks out and Rennes’ marketing campaign concluding in mid-Might, there is a robust chance his season has ended and he will not function once more for Franck Haise’s aspect.
Jacquet will subsequently arrive at Liverpool on July 1 after the Reds secured the signature of the promising centre-back, who had attracted curiosity from Chelsea and Bayern Munich earlier than Arne Slot’s crew made their transfer.
Talking following Liverpool’s completion of Jacquet’s signing, Slot remarked in a press convention: “Very pleasing, in fact, as a result of initially he’s a really large expertise – and perhaps much more than ‘solely’ a expertise, however we talk about expertise due to his age, in fact.
“Second of all as a result of we weren’t the one one taken with him, so one other large praise for the folks which can be working each single day so arduous to signal gamers, that we have been capable of signal such an enormous expertise.
Liverpool-bound Jeremy Jacquet is ready to have surgical procedure (Picture: Getty)
“And [it is] one other instance of the mannequin we’re utilizing at this membership: so, younger, very proficient gamers, typically within the begin of their profession, typically already a little bit bit just a few years into their profession, however all the time gamers which can be younger and may enhance us and assist us for the quick, however positively additionally for the long run.
“Now we have signed a variety of them just lately and I’ve stated many instances that the mid- to long-term, however even the short-term, way forward for this membership is in a really, very, superb place.”
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Jacquet had featured in 33 senior matches for Rennes – together with 21 this marketing campaign – previous to sustaining the shoulder downside on February 7. In whole, the 2005-born defender has amassed 88 senior outings all through his profession, starting in Rennes’ B crew and enterprise two separate mortgage intervals at Clermont Foot.
He’s anticipated to bolster Liverpool’s defensive ranks and will kind a partnership with Virgil van Dijk subsequent season, with Ibrahima Konate’s contract expiring in the summertime and Giovanni Leoni anticipated to be sidelined till not less than August.
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