How Liverpool could line up in 2030 as Jeremy Jacquet continues exciting transfer plan

Liverpool has continued its recruitment drive for exciting young players with sky-high potential by snapping up Jeremy Jacquet, with a long-term plan clearly taking shape

Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes thrashed out a deal for Jeremy Jacquet.(Image: Getty Images)

It might still be some way off the summer, but Liverpool has already begun its recruitment drive ahead of the 2026/27 season. In Jeremy Jacquet, the belief is that the Reds have signed a gem.

Costing up to $82 million (£60 million) including add-ons, Jacquet was also wanted by Chelsea. In the end, though, he chose Liverpool, with the Reds prepared to let him remain at Rennes for the remainder of the campaign.

In signing Jacquet, Liverpool has continued its drive to lower the average age of its squad. Alongside Giovanni Leoni, it has added one of the best young defenders in Europe to its roster ahead of Virgil van Dijk's departure, whenever that might come.

Liverpool's transfer strategy has several key pillars, two of which are that arrivals must be youthful and with the potential to become world-class. In time, the $82M outlay could prove good value.

Jacquet and Leoni are not the only young stars to have arrived in recent months. Milos Kerkez and Florian Wirtz are 22. Hugo Ekitike is 23. Rio Ngumoha and Trey Nyoni are still teenagers breaking through.

In all departments, Liverpool is looking to ensure it remains competitive in the current climate while also looking ahead to the future. In a few years, for instance, Alisson Becker will move on — and Giorgi Mamardashvili has already been secured.

Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes.(Image: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Conor Bradley is 22 and Jeremie Frimpong is 25, with Kerkez and the two aforementioned young center-backs very much the future — and the present — across the backline. Even Ibrahima Konate is only 26, should he agree to sign a new deal.

In midfield, Ryan Gravenberch is somehow still only 23. Curtis Jones and Dominik Szoboszlai are only 25, while Alexis Mac Allister is the eldest at 27.

Of course, there are contract decisions to be made with several key players — talks are already underway with Szoboszlai, among others — but the age profile of the current roster is set up nicely.

At some point, be it this summer or next, Mohamed Salah — like Van Dijk, well into his 30s — will move on, and more additions in attack will be required. In Wirtz, Ekitike and Isak, though, that process has already begun.

Of the current squad, only Alisson, Van Dijk and Salah are at an age where you wouldn't expect them to still be at Liverpool — and in their peak years — by 2030.

In the case of the first two, steps have already been taken directly with young players coming in who play in their position. In the case of Salah, others have come in who will — and probably already have — altered the attacking emphasis.

No world-class right winger has come in yet, but perhaps that could be next. Across the rest of the team, the elements for the next half-decade look to be set in place.

How Liverpool could line up in 2030: Mamardashvili; Bradley, Jacquet, Leoni, Kerkez; Szoboszlai, Gravenberch; Ngumoha, Wirtz, Ekitike; Isak.