{"id":23462,"date":"2026-02-08T09:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/liverpools-new-signing-jacquet-suffers-serious-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:15","slug":"liverpools-new-signing-jacquet-suffers-serious-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/liverpools-new-signing-jacquet-suffers-serious-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool\u2019s new signing Jacquet suffers \u2018serious\u2019 injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool\u2019s new signing, Jeremy Jacquet, suffered a \u201cserious\u201d shoulder injury while playing for Rennes in their 3-1 Ligue 1 defeat at RC Lens on Saturday, casting doubt over the defender\u2019s availability ahead of his summer move to Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Jacquet fell awkwardly in the second half of the French league match and appeared in agony as he left the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Jeremy, it\u2019s his shoulder, and for Abdelhamid (Ait Boudlal, another Rennes player injured in the same match) it\u2019s muscular,\u201d Rennes head coach Habib Beye told reporters after the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have time to see, but it\u2019s definitely quite serious for both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool agreed a 60-million-pound ($80 million) deal for Jacquet on Monday, but the 20-year-old defender will stay with the French club until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool, provisionally sixth in the Premier League table, will face Manchester City on Sunday with four defenders \u2013 Giovanni Leoni, Joe Gomez, Jeremie Frimpong and Conor Bradley sidelined due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23463,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23462","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Jacquet fell awkwardly in the second half of the French league match.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Jacquet fell awkwardly in the second half of the French league match.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26421,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23462\/revisions\/26421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}