Jeremy Jacquet Opens Up On Decision to Join Liverpool in €65M Deal

With the 2025-26 season over for Liverpool, consideration now turns in the direction of the longer term. On that entrance, there’s greater than just a little trepidation for followers who’ve watched the aspect regress significantly over the previous 18 months, and it’s not helped by final summer time’s switch enterprise. In 2025, the Reds spent massive solely to finish up with much less depth and an unbalanced squad.

They might want to do higher now to keep away from subsequent season being wasted, too. They’ve already completed some work on that entrance, although, signing 20-year-old French centre half Jeremy Jacquet from Rennes in January in a €65M take care of the teenager loaned again to the Ligue 1 membership for the rest of the season—and instantly selecting up a critical shoulder damage.

Regardless of some issues it might see him miss the beginning of pre-season together with his new membership, the newest is that he shall be able to go as soon as coaching for the 2026-27 season begins, with Jacquet telling Ouest-France that his present return timeline stands at round a month as a part of an interview the place he says goodbye to his boyhood membership and appears in the direction of the longer term.

“I had wished to stick with Rennes to assist the group and in the long run I couldn’t,” Jacquet mentioned of his choice to remain at Rennes to complete out a season that within the noticed the membership qualify for the Europa league. “Mentally it was robust, however I attempted to regain hope by telling myself I had to assist the group in different methods, to convey just a little pleasure to the locker room and off the pitch.

His function at Liverpool gained’t be identified till in all probability late in pre-season, and different strikes this summer time—and an enormous query mark round the way forward for out-of-contract Ibrahima Konaté—might but play a job, however long-term he says he’s coming to the Premier League to earn a beginning function. And for a 20-year-old who value €65M, you’d anticipate that to be the goal.

“I do know my potential,” Jacquet added of creating the change to Liverpool and the Premier League. “I wish to play my soccer and benefit from the second. I’m going to observe my very own path and I don’t know the way it will finish, however I believe I’m off to begin and I wish to play as a lot as doable and show myself on the pitch. I’ve little doubt that issues will go effectively.

“I’d been speaking to [Liverpool] for a very long time. It didn’t occur in per week. The membership’s historical past weighed closely on my choice, however so did the venture they supplied.”