The person Liverpool are hoping will add some defensive may to their group subsequent season, £60million summer time signing Jeremy Jacquet, suffered a ‘critical’ shoulder damage throughout a Ligue 1 recreation on Saturday.
The 20-year-old fell awkwardly within the second half of a 3-1 defeat at Lens and appeared in agony as he left the pitch.
‘For Jeremy, it is his shoulder, and for Abdelhamid (Ait Boudlal, the opposite Rennes participant injured) it is muscular,’ Rennes head coach Habib Beye.Beye stated in his post-match interview.
‘We’ll have time to see, but it surely’s positively fairly critical for each of them.’
Liverpool noticed off competitors from Chelsea to agree a deal to signal the extremely rated France Beneath 21 centre-back for £55million plus £5m in add-ons on July 1 on a five-year contract, with the choice of an extra 12 months.
‘Very pleasing, in fact,’ was Reds head coach Arne Slot’s verdict on the deal.
‘He is a really large expertise and possibly much more than a expertise, however we discuss expertise due to his age.
‘We weren’t the one one occupied with him. It is one other large praise to the individuals working actually laborious to signal gamers as a result of we have been in a position to signal such a giant expertise.’
Jeremy Jacquet was in agony after struggling a shoulder damage for Rennes on Saturday night
The centre-back, 20, was later helped off the pitch and his Ligue 1 membership will assess the harm
Jacquet was topic of longstanding and vital curiosity from Chelsea and different main European golf equipment as a result of his standing as an excellent central defensive prospect.
Chelsea supplied the identical deal as Liverpool however, from their perspective, the tone of talks modified when it turned obvious that Mamadou Sarr can be returning to Stamford Bridge and Josh Acheampong was staying.
Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate are at the moment their solely match senior gamers in that place, with Joe Gomez and Giovanni Leoni injured.
Konate has nonetheless to agree on a brand new contract however talks are persevering with.
Consequently, the following switch negotiations for Jacquet have been overseen and efficiently concluded by sporting director Richard Hughes.
Liverpool will likely be saved knowledgeable when Rennes are positive in regards to the extent of Saturday’s shoulder damage, however they face a nervous wait.
