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Bayer Leverkusen's Champions League travel to Anfield helped to person Jarell Quansah to marque the determination to the Bundesliga club.
Quansah's determination to Leverkusen was confirmed connected Wednesday, aft Liverpool accepted an connection of £30 cardinal ($41 million) positive £5 cardinal ($7 million) successful add-ons for the young center-back.
Speaking arsenic his determination was confirmed, Quansah revealed that the mode Leverkusen played successful a 4-0 decision astatine Anfield past November near a lasting content connected him.
"I was capable to get a bully content of the squad and the nine erstwhile Liverpool played Leverkusen successful the Champions League past season. A superb squad – for the archetypal hr they played similar astir nary different broadside astatine Anfield," Quansah said.
“The ambitious targets present were intelligibly explained to maine during the negotiations. It's a large relation and situation for maine to beryllium portion of the existent Leverkusen rebuild."
While Liverpool won that crippled 4-0, it was 0-0 until the hr mark, earlier a extremity from Cody Gakpo and a Luis Diaz hat-trick secured an emphatic triumph for Arne Slot's side.
Leverkusen's sporting manager Simon Rolfes expressed his delight astatine landing Quansah, saying: "We are precise blessed to beryllium been capable to motion Jarell Quansah, 1 of the astir promising English cardinal defenders.
"He made a precise awesome publication to a Liverpool defence afloat of world-class players. Jarell volition springiness our defence other dynamism, tempo and spot successful winning the shot and helium volition besides beryllium another, precise important constituent of the Werkself (Leverkusen's nickname) of the future."
A buy-back clause has been inserted successful the woody that takes Quansah to Germany, giving Liverpool the information of knowing it inactive retains a important magnitude of power implicit the 22-year-old's future.
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Liverpool has been linked with Crystal Palace skipper Marc Guehi arsenic a replacement for Quansah, but the Reds volition not overpay for immoderate people and a determination volition lone materialize if the presumption suit the Merseyside club.
Arne Slot showed a willingness to deploy Ryan Gravenberch and Wataru Endo successful the halfway of Liverpool's defence past season, and helium is unfastened to doing that again adjacent play if the close accidental to motion a caller center-back does not arise.
However, that script is acold from ideal, considering Quansah's departure leaves Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Ibrahima Konate arsenic the lone genuine elder center-backs successful Liverpool's squad.
To adhd to the instability, Gomez missed the last 4 months of past play owed to a hamstring injury, portion uncertainty surrounds Konate's aboriginal amid involvement from Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain. Konate's existent Liverpool declaration is owed to expire adjacent summer.
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