Jarell Quansah faces pivotal moment in Liverpool career as transfer interest remains

Yahoo

15-04-2025

Jarell Quansah could have a decision to make on his Liverpool future this summer, with Newcastle, as well as a host of Bundesliga clubs, said to be interested in the youngster.
The 22-year-old enjoyed a progressive 2023-24 season under Jurgen Klopp, making 13 starts in the Premier League, including in 10 of the Reds' last 15 games of the campaign.
However, under Arne Slot, the youngster has lined up just once in the league since the opening day of the season and is firmly the Dutchman's fourth-choice center-back after Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, and Joe Gomez.
Quansah has still made a total of 23 appearances this season, which he may well be sated with at this stage in his career, but conversely he might be willing to move on in order to give himself a better chance of starting games more regularly.
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Transfer guru Fabrizio Romano addressed Quansah's future on a recent episode of his Here We Go podcast. He said: 'I would keep an eye on Jarell Quansah because he's very good and very talented, but at the same time, sometimes, you want to play.
'You have Virgil Van Dijk [close to] extending his contract, [Ibrahima] Konate is still there, the interest in [Dean] Huijsen, and Liverpool have many players in that position.
'It's true that injuries are part of the game, we have many games as always in modern football, but Jarell Quansah is attracting interest from several clubs – Newcastle, from what I'm hearing, but also German clubs in the Bundesliga.
'I'm told there could be movement. He could be one of the players for Liverpool to consider to cash in on if the player wants to go and try something new.'
After quickly deciding that Quansah wasn't ready to be a regular alongside Van Dijk at the start of the season, Slot praised Quansah in February, saying that he was back to his best level after putting in an important performance as a second-half substitute in a win against Wolves.
'I think everybody has seen recently that he did really well and I see in training sessions that he is back to being the same Jarell that he was in pre-season,' Slot said. 'I think he had a bit of a hard time after being taken off at Ipswich [in Liverpool's first game of the season] and the first two or three games after that, when he came in, was also a bit of a struggle. And he's just showing in the last two or three months, on the training pitch but also when he comes in, that he's back to his old level.'