Liverpool gets double injury boost for pre-season ahead of World Cup absences
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Liverpool FC NewsFeaturesLiverpool FCLiverpool will need to have much better luck with injuries next season but Arne Slot should have some more options available by the time the Reds return for pre-seasonLiverpool head coach Arne Slot during a training session.(Image: Nikki Dyer - Liverpool FC via Getty Images)Incoming Liverpool defender Jeremy Jacquet, who will arrive for a fee of around $83 million (£60 million) from Rennes this summer, says he "will be ready" for the start of the new season.Shortly after his move to Anfield was finalized earlier this year, the Frenchman sustained a shoulder injury that meant he had played his final game for the Ligue 1 club. But Jacquet is confident that he will be fully fit and firing following his first summer representing a Premier League club.No exact date has been written in the diary for a return, he explained, but added, in an interview with Ouest-France: "I'll be ready for next season.
I'll be ready."READ MORE: Jeremy Jacquet explains Chelsea snub and names two stars who convinced him on Liverpool transferREAD MORE: Liverpool transfer news LIVE: Yan Diomande talks, Alisson latest, Bradley Barcola moveJacquet comes in to bolster a Liverpool defense that has lacked depth this season. "Whereas at Liverpool, apart from the fact that Virgil van Dijk is nearing the end of his career, training with him is going to be huge."He's going to teach me so much.
Training with guys like that, it doesn't get any better than that."Jeremy Jacquet is set to join Liverpool from Rennes.(Image: Neal Simpson/Sportsphoto/Allstar via Getty Images)Elsewhere, Liverpool signed Giovanni Leoni from Parma last summer — a similarly highly rated young center-back — for a fee of around $35 million (£26 million).Leoni has only played once competitively for Liverpool. Arne Slot recently spoke of how much he has developed physically during his time on the sidelines."If you look at Giovanni Leoni, I don’t know if you once in a while see some Instagram posts from the club, this guy becomes a beast," Slot said in April.Get Liverpool's new 2026/27 home kitThis article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it.