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Liverpool in a panic after Jeremy Jacquet injury blow Liverpool’s centre-back department is undergoing a major overhaul. Last summer the Premier League champions invested £26m in Giovanni Leoni - with the 19-year-old arriving from Parma. They stepped up their assault on the centre-back transfer market in January - agreeing to pay around £62m for Rennes defender Jeremy Jacquet.

The deal will go through during the off-season - with the player remaining with his French Ligue 1 club until the end of the 2025/26 campaign. Those extra few months were supposed to give Jacquet the opportunity for a perfect send-off - by helping SRFC to qualify for European football. But the plan almost immediately backfired with the 20-year-old suffering a devastating shoulder injury in early February.

Jacquet required surgery Following surgery it is not expected that the France under-21 international will play again this season. And according to a report in Sport in France the injury has caused panic behind the scenes at Anfield. Jacquet was being earmarked for an immediate first-team role alongside Virgil van Dijk - since Ibrahima Konate is now widely expected to depart on a free transfer.

But owing to the defender’s recovery process he might not be altogether ready for a full preseason with his new club. That in turn could affect his preparedness for the new season ahead - with Jacquet potentially ring-rusty when he arrives on Merseyside following a long layoff. Liverpool now panicking about Jacquet plan “Surgery became inevitable: severe dislocation and persistent pain despite rehabilitation,” the report reads.