Jeremy Jacquet injury update after Liverpool signing suffered 'serious' blow
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Liverpool signing Jeremy Jacquet remains sidelined with a shoulder injury as Rennes manager Franck Haise confirms the defender is still receiving treatmentLiverpool have received a fresh fitness update regarding new signing Jeremy Jacquet. The Reds secured an agreement during the January transfer window to sign the Rennes centre-back in a deal valued at £60million, including £5m in add-ons.Jacquet will formally move to Anfield in the summer following the end of the current campaign.
The defender sustained an injury mere days after finalising his move to become a Liverpool player, though.The 20-year-old picked up what seemed to be a shoulder injury on February 7 during Rennes' 3-0 loss to Lens in Ligue 1, which was described as "serious" by the club's former boss Habib Beye."We'll have time to see, but it's definitely quite serious for both of them," Beye told reporters at the time. "For Jeremy, it's his shoulder, and for Abdelhamid [Ait Boudlal] it's muscular."READ MORE: Liverpool's title triumph sees record-breaking revenues as Reds break £700m barrierREAD MORE: Arne Slot shares concerning Florian Wirtz injury update with star out of West Ham clashNow, nearly three weeks following the injury, an update on Jacquet's injury has emerged from Rennes' new manager, Franck Haise, who has confirmed the defender will miss his side's fixture against Toulouse this weekend, reports the Liverpool Echo.FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FB PAGE!
Latest Reds news and more on our dedicated Facebook page“I don't know exactly yet, he (Jacquet) is receiving treatment and rehabilitation, that's where we are at the moment, he's working in the gym," Haise stated on Thursday, via L’Equipe.It remains uncertain how long Jacquet will be unavailable with his present injury and whether he will represent Rennes again before departing the club at season's end to join Liverpool.At the beginning of this month, Arne Slot was quizzed about Jacquet, with the Liverpool manager stating: “Very pleasing, of course, because first of all he is a very big talent – and maybe even more than ‘only’ a talent, but we speak about talent because of his age, of course.“Second of all because we weren’t the only one interested in him, so another big compliment for the people that are working every single day so hard to sign players, that we were able to sign such a big talent.“And [it is] another example of the model we are using at this club: so, young, very talented players, sometimes in the start of their career, sometimes already a little bit a few years into their career, but always players that are young and can improve us and help us for the short, but definitely also for the long term.“We have signed a lot of them recently and I’ve said many times that the mid- to long-term, but even the short-term, future of this club is in a very, very, very good place.”Ensure our latest sport headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source.Click here to activate or add us as Preferred Source in your Google search settings.