Liverpool discovers Jeremy Jacquet injury update after $80M investment worry

Jeremy Jacquet remains sidelined with a shoulder injury as Rennes manager Franck Haise confirms the defender will miss the Toulouse game while continuing his rehabilitation

Jeremy Jacquet has a worrying injury(Image: Getty Images)

Liverpool has received a new update regarding the fitness of recent acquisition Jeremy Jacquet.

The Reds finalized a deal during the January transfer window to bring in the Rennes center-back in a transaction valued at £60 million ($80.9 million), including add-ons. Jacquet will officially make the switch to Anfield in the summer after completing the remainder of the season with Rennes.

But the 20-year-old sustained an injury just days after agreeing to become a Liverpool player. He appeared to suffer a shoulder injury on February 7 during Rennes' 3-0 loss to Lens in Ligue 1, which was called "serious" by the club's then manager Habib Beye.

"We'll have time to see, but it's definitely quite serious for both of them," Beye informed reporters at the time.

"For Jeremy, it's his shoulder, and for Abdelhamid [Ait Boudlal] it's muscular."

Now, nearly three weeks post-injury, there has been an update on Jacquet's fitness from Rennes' new boss, Franck Haise, who has ruled the defender out of his team's upcoming match against Toulouse this weekend.

Jacquet will join Liverpool's first-team squad this summer(Image: Getty Images)

"I don't know exactly yet, he (Jacquet) is receiving treatment and rehabilitation, that's where we are at the moment, he's working in the gym," Haise stated on Thursday, via L'Equipe.

It remains to be seen how long Jacquet will be out of action with his current injury and whether he will play for Rennes again before departing the club at the end of the season to join Liverpool.

Speaking at the beginning of this month, Arne Slot was questioned about Jacquet.

The Liverpool boss said: "Very pleasing, of course, because first of all he is a very big talent – and maybe even more than 'only' a talent, but we speak about talent because of his age, of course.

"Second of all, because we weren't the only one interested in him, so another big compliment for the people that are working every single day so hard to sign players, that we were able to sign such a big talent.

"And [it is] another example of the model we are using at this club.

"So, young, very talented players, sometimes in the start of their career, sometimes already a little bit a few years into their career, but always players that are young and can improve us and help us for the short, but definitely also for the long term.

"We have signed a lot of them recently, and I've said many times that the mid to long-term, but even the short-term, future of this club is in a very, very, very good place."