Reds boss Arne Slot has expressed his glee with the signing of Jeremy Jacquet at Liverpool after the Premier League Champions managed to beat off the likes of Chelsea to sign the gifted young defender.
LIVERPOOL have completed a £55million plus £5m in add-ons deal to sign the centre-back from Rennes in the summer window after many in the media believed that he was heading to Stamford Bridge after they held talks over a move.
His signing comes amid uncertainty over the future of Ibrahima Konate, whose contract expires at the end of the season, and now Arne Slot has opened up and expressed his delight that the defender is making the move to Anfield.
“Very pleasing of course,” said Slot. “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.”
IcFootballnews Says….
There has been alot of talk about the quality of Jacquet, but many are wondering why LIVERPOOL did not bring him to the club in the January window and opted to bring him to the club at the end of the season.
He could be a massive player in the future, and he will get to learn from one of the best in world football, Virgil Van Dijk, so he could develop into a world class star learning from the Dutch star.
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