Jacquet completes £60m move to Liverpool

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Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW📺Choose the Sky Sports push notifications you want! 🔔Chelsea offered exactly the same deal as Liverpool, but the player decided to move to Anfield, where he has signed a five-year contract with the option of a further year.Although Jacquet suffered a shoulder injury earlier this year, he has successfully completed a programme of rehabilitation and is back doing individual fitness work, so is expected to be available for the start of pre-season training. He will take his place in Liverpool's first-team squad as one of their centre-backs alongside Virgil van Dijk, Geovanni Leoni and Joe Gomez.

Also See: Liverpool news and transfer latest Watch FREE Premier League highlights Download the Sky Sports App Liverpool fixtures Laurens: Jacquet is the real dealFrench football expert Julien Laurens:"He's the real deal. I know he's only 20, he hasn't played for France and he hasn't played in the Champions League or Europa League."He has a long way to go but he's been impressive last season, after they [Rennes] called him back from his loan in the second division, and this season, with Habib Beye."You can't get it wrong.

It's a lot of money for such a young player."Hatchard: Jacquet a rising star - but untested in top-level footballEuropean football expert Kevin Hatchard on Sky Sports News discussing Jeremy Jacquet:"He's been seen as a rising star for quite some time. He's been a captain at numerous youth groups for France and seen as somebody who has all of the building blocks you need to be a modern centre-back."He's good on the ball, good passing range, athletic, great in the air - but he doesn't have a long record of top-level football."He had a loan at Clermont that went well.