New Liverpool signing Jacquet suffers injury suspected to be ‘quite serious’ | OneFootball

Liverpool’s new signing Jeremy Jacquet has suffered a serious shoulder injury according to his manager at Rennes, Habib Beye.

Jacquet is set to join Liverpool in the summer after the Merseyside outfit agreed a £60 million deal for the defender.

The 20-year-old remains at Rennes for the rest of the season and fell awkwardly in the second half of a 3-1 defeat to Lens in Ligue 1 and looked to be in a lot of pain as he went off the pitch.

Beye was asked about the injury to the young Frenchman after the match: “For Jeremy, it’s his shoulder, and for Abdelhamid [Ait Boudlal, the other Rennes player injured] it’s muscular,” he said.

“We’ll have time to see, but it’s definitely quite serious for both of them.”

Liverpool boss Arne Slot was full of praise for the Frenchman when he signed for the club.

“Very pleasing, of course,” Slot said. “He’s a very big talent and maybe even more than talent but we speak about talent because of his age.

“Second, because we weren’t the only one interested in him so it’s a big compliment to the people working really hard to sign players.

“Such a big talent and another example of the model we’re using at this club — young, very talented players sometimes at the start of their careers or sometimes already a little bit a few years into their career but always players that are young and can improve us in the short term but also definitely in the long term.

“We’ve signed a lot of them recently and like I’ve said many times in the mid-long term future of this club, and even the short term, is in a very good place.”