Liverpool suffer ‘serious’ injury problem after ‘indecent and dishonest’ reports dismissed

Liverpool’s injury luck has taken another turn for the worst after their newest signing suffered a potentially serious issue before even playing a game for the club.

The Reds have already been in the midst of a defensive injury crisis, having seen the likes of Jeremie Frimpong and Joe Gomez suffer setbacks in recent weeks, however Arne Slot’s side did not add a new signing during the January transfer window.

Instead, Liverpool opted to splash €60 million on young defender Jeremy Jacquet, who will join the club from Rennes in the summer after impressing in a breakout campaign for the Ligue 1 side.

However, just days after confirming the deal for Jacquet, the 20-year-old sustained a left shoulder injury during Rennes’ loss to Lens on Saturday, which saw him subbed off in the 69th minute in much pain.

Speaking after the match, Rennes manager Habib Beye admitted the problem was ‘quite serious’ for Jacquet’, although the true extent of the injury has yet to be revealed.

Liverpool have already seen another young signing in Giovanni Leoni suffer a season-ending ACL injury on his debut in September after joining the club for €31m last summer.

Rennes slam ‘indecent and dishonest’ reports over Beye job

While Liverpool will certainly have eyes on Jacquet’s recovery, the situation only increased tensions between Rennes and Beye after the French side suffered a fourth successive defeat.

Reports in France had claimed that Beye was ready to walk out of his job after allegedly demanding a portion of the €100m-plus Rennes received from their sales in January.

Rennes have strongly denied the reports and dismissed them as ‘slanderous’ and ‘indecent and dishonest’ but Beye’s future will not have been helped by the damaging defeat to Lens.

It is believed that qualifying for Europe should keep Beye’s job safe and Rennes currently sit sixth in Ligue 1, with the club determined not to let the sales and speculation derail their campaign.

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