Source: Ian Gorst - Liverpool Echo
BREAKINGNew #LFC signing Jeremy Jacquet is to undergo surgery on a shoulder injury. The Redsâ new ÂŁ60m defenderâs season with Rennes is over after consultation with Anfield chiefs.
A Rennes statement: âOn the pitch against Lens on February 7th, Jeremy Jacquet was forced to leave the game early due to a left shoulder injury.
âFollowing medical examinations, surgery has been scheduled in the coming days.
Stade Rennais F.C. wishes him a speedy recovery.â
Are we insured against the possibilityof this being a career ending injury , or do we even reserve the right to call the whole thing off ?
Iâd be surprised if they let us amputate his shoulder
I thought he had his surgery?
This isnât career-ending, but it could very well mean the end of his career as an elite player. Poor ladâŚ
As long as he does not get too physical, avoids shoulder to shoulder challenges, shoulder the ball or shoulder responsibility, heâll be great!
If the surgery is a success and he doesnât have a recurrence, I donât see why this would be the case. Players have had more serious injuries before establishing themselves at the very top.
I think itâs just the usual bedwetting.
Heâll be fine.
While I feel for the lad , itâs a shoulder injury. And thatâs something which shouldnât have too many ramifications as what an ACL could do for instance at his age
Why is surgery only scheduled now. The injury was weeks ago? That all suggests some poor management or something unexpected happening. Personally Iâd want to cancel/frustrate this transfer if that is in anyway possible - we canât afford to be spending 60(?) odd million on another player who may not be physically fit come pre-season.
Rennes was hoping that Jacquet could work himself back to health without surgery, as surgery would write off the rest of Jacquetâs season. Pretty simple really. Not everything in the football world revolves around LFC.
And we should have had a reasonable treatment or some such similar clause in our contract that required Rennes to take the right actions for his LT health - which a surgeon could quickly ascertain whether surgery would be necessary. This isnât NHS on an elderly person, this is get it done next day and get recovered.
Maybe itâs a bit of both? Rennes wanted to wait to see if he would heal naturally, without surgery, in the hope they could get him back on the pitch this season. Let the swelling go down, and maybe the injury would heal with rest and appropriate physio? That would have been their plan.
On our end the main concern is the player coming to us fit and ready to go. Perhaps we worked with Rennes on their desire to wait and see, only now, given our financial investment, the timing for surgery has been triggered in order for him to come to us in rude health.
Surgery is rarely the first response to these injuries so itâs completely normal to only resort to this a couple of weeks after the incident
Why was the surgery delayed? The medical team has to shoulder the blame.
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Weâll see. I posted above what happened to Senderos, which remains a bit of a trauma for me, given the lack of good players in Switzerland, especially at the time. Other players have had their problems too with this kind of injuries.
Of course, I hope that heâll make a full recovery. But irrespectively of this, the six months or more lost at this stage of his young career are a big hit in the teeth for his development.
I canât decide if this is a futile football group therapy session between you and @Nikola or the worldâs saddest doom spiralâŚ