Why Djylian N’Guessan won’t be registered with Liverpool until 2027 despite agreeing Reds move

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September 1st 2026, 16:57 Image via SVMM Teenage French forward Djylian N’Guessan has reportedly agreed to join Liverpool, but he won’t officially become a Reds player until next year.On Monday, Fabrizio Romano shared the news (via X) that the Merseyside club had agreed a deal to sign the 18-year-old from Saint-Etienne, with a view to him linking up with LFC in 2027.Even if a deal gets done in the coming days, however, he won’t be registered with Liverpool immediately due to a bureaucratic obstacle.N’Guessan to spend the season on loan at BrestOn Tuesday afternoon, L’Equipe reported that Anfield chiefs have decided that N’Guessan will spend this season on loan at Ligue 1 club Brest in order to gain valuable first-team experience before he begins his Reds career in earnest.The Liverpool Echo elaborated that the striker will sign a pre-contract agreement with LFC to formally join the Merseysiders at the end of the campaign, with Saint-Etienne to retain his registration for 2026/27 as Liverpool have already filled their allocation of foreign loan slots.(Photo by Jasmin Walter/Getty Images)Want more Empire of the Kop coverage? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list for news you can trustHopefully N’Guessan will enjoy regular game-time at BrestAlong with Belgian goalkeeper Lucca Brughmans, N’Guessan has been identified by the Reds as a player for the long-term future and is likely to link up with the under-21 side initially before hopefully graduating into the first team.The striker has made 13 senior appearances for Saint-Etienne, scoring once, with the majority of his outings coming in their 2024/25 Ligue 1 campaign which ended in relegation (Transfermarkt).L’Equipe mentioned that the teenager’s profile is ‘comparable’ to another French centre-forward in Hugo Ekitike, who of course enjoyed a terrific first season at Liverpool in 2025/26 before suffering a devastating Achilles injury in April, which is set to rule him out for the remainder of this year.A loan spell with Brest should hopefully see N’Guessan enjoy ample game-time in Ligue 1 this term for a side who, just like the Reds, have begun their league campaign with a pair of 2-2 draws.We look forward to seeing what he can produce in his homeland over the next few months before eventually coming to Liverpool, where he’ll have an obvious role model in Ekitike to try and emulate.