So, while Jacquet and Leoni is a great start, it should not be the end of Liverpool’s recruitment in the position.
The club will need to find a replacement for Van Dijk, and they will probably need to add another centre-back as well on top of that by 2027.
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Considering the lack of homegrown players in the squad that player should ideally have been trained in England. That’s why Liverpool wanted to sign Marc Guehi and that is also why they have already struck a special agreement for another centre-back who is destined to join the club.
A report in The Sunday Times claims that Liverpool already have a ‘unique’ agreement in place with Bayer Leverkusen and Jarell Quansah.
According to the report, the contract and fee to return him to Anfield is already agreed, and this can be activated in 2027.
It’s common to include buy-back clauses, but it’s less common for a club to already agree a future contract with a player who technically does not belong to them anymore.
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Liverpool and Quansah would not have come to such an agreement had they both not seriously thought that a return to Anfield was inevitable.
After all, Quansah is still very young at just 22-years-old and there’s plenty more to come from him. He’s catching the eye at Bayer Leverkusen, recently earning a nomination for Bundesliga Player of the Month.
He’s also become an England international and seems to be getting better and better with regular football.
Given Liverpool’s need at centre-back and their lack of homegrown talent, it just feels inevitable that they will bring Quansah back and activate that agreement in 2027.
Quansah, Leoni and Jacquet could be an exciting future centre-back trio.
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