Jeremy Jacquet injury update delivered after new Liverpool signing suffered 'serious' blow

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Jeremy Jacquet is set to join Liverpool in the summer, but there is uncertainty that he will be available for Rennes before the end of the seasonLiverpool have been handed a fresh update about the fitness of new signing Jeremy Jacquet. The Reds agreed a deal during the January transfer window to sign the Rennes centre-back in a move worth £60million, including £5million in add-ons.Jacquet will officially move to Anfield in the summer after spending the rest of the season at Rennes.

However, the defender suffered an injury just days after agreeing a deal to become a Liverpool player.The 20-year-old suffered what appeared to be a shoulder injury on February 7 during Rennes’ 3-0 defeat to Lens in Ligue 1, in what was described as "serious" by the club’s then manager Habib Beye.READ MORE: Arne Slot gives unexpected Florian Wirtz Liverpool injury update - 'I honestly don't know'READ MORE: Arne Slot sent clear Rio Ngumoha message after Jamie Carragher's Liverpool demand"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."Now, almost three weeks on from the injury, there has been an update on Jacquet’s fitness by Rennes’ new manager, Franck Haise, who has ruled the defender out of his side's clash against Toulouse this weekend.“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 said on Thursday, via L’Equipe.It now remains to be seen how long Jacquet will be sidelined with his current injury and if he will feature for Rennes again before leaving the club at the end of the season to join Liverpool.FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE!

All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pageSpeaking at the start of this month, Arne Slot was asked about Jacquet, with the Liverpool boss saying: “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.