European soccer knowledgeable Andy Brassell isn’t ruling out the opportunity of a return to Liverpool for Jarell Quansah sooner or later.
The 23-year-old was a part of Arne Slot’s Premier League-winning squad final season however not often began underneath the Dutchman, and he departed for Bayer Leverkusen in the summertime in a £35m deal which is known to include a buyback clause (Sky Sports activities).
The irony is that the 190cm-tall England worldwide has been subsequently missed at Anfield, with a litany of defensive accidents plaguing the champions this time period, and Ibrahima Konate’s future stays unclear as he quickly nears the expiry of his contract.
Brassell: Liverpool return for Quansah is ‘at all times a chance’
Talking on talkSPORT, Brassell claimed {that a} centre-back addition should be a prime precedence for Liverpool in the summertime switch window given their lack of depth in that place, and he steered that Quansah may but find yourself again at Anfield sooner or later.
The soccer author said: “I’m certain Liverpool will exit and purchase one other centre-back from right here. They should. They actually should exit and purchase a brand new centre-back as a result of, relying on what occurs with Van Dijk, they will’t have Van Dijk plus Jacquet and Leoni going into subsequent season.
“They will’t do this. It leaves them too skinny, so they should discover somebody. I ponder if sooner or later Jarell Quansah perhaps comes again. I feel that must be a query as nicely.
“We’ve seen that earlier than with gamers going out to the Bundesliga. You even have a look at, going approach again, Dani Carvajal having his 12 months in Leverkusen earlier than going again to Actual Madrid and changing into a Actual Madrid legend. That’s at all times a chance, I feel.”
Quansah unlikely to return again to Liverpool any time quickly
Proper now, it’d appear that Liverpool would wish Quansah much more than he wants them.
Whereas Slot was compelled to deploy midfielder Ryan Gravenberch at centre-back towards Qarabag final week, the England worldwide has already accured nearly twice as many minutes for Bayer Leverkusen this season (2,203) as what he had at Anfield final time period (1,290).
The varsity of thought that LFC ought to’ve held onto the 23-year-old is comprehensible however flawed. As David Lynch defined, the defender was ‘so eager to go away‘ Merseyside final summer time, and at the moment it was exhausting to envisage simply how extreme our subsequent damage disaster on the again would develop into.
It’d be naive to anticipate Quansah to return working again to Liverpool any time quickly when he’s been having fun with way more game-time in Germany, though it’s not unattainable that he may return at a later stage in his profession.
The signing of Jacquet at the least covers off the potential exit of Konate in the summertime, however extra probably than not, the Reds would wish one other readymade first-team defensive addition to mitigate towards a repeat of the issues which have dogged them within the present marketing campaign.
You possibly can watch Slot’s full pre-Manchester Metropolis press convention beneath, by way of Empire of the Kop on YouTube:
