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Beth LindopFeb 1, 2026, 06:16 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Based in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.<\/p>\n Multiple Authors<\/p>\n Liverpool<\/a> have reached a pre-agreement with Rennes to sign defender J\u00e9r\u00e9my Jacquet<\/a> in the summer, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n The deal is expected to be worth \u00a355 million ($74 million) plus \u00a35 million ($6.8 million) in add-ons, the sources added, with the 20-year-old viewed as a crucial part of Liverpool’s defensive rebuild.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Chelsea<\/a> had also been interested in the centre-back, however sources told ESPN he favours a move to Anfield, with personal terms not expected to be an issue.<\/p>\n Liverpool are in need of defensive reinforcements, with uncertainty remaining over the futures of Ibrahima Konat\u00e9<\/a> and Andy Robertson, who are both out of contract in the summer. The Premier League<\/a> champions had tried to sign Marc Gu\u00e9hi<\/a> from Crystal Palace<\/a> last summer, only for Palace to pull the plug on the \u00a335 million ($47.8 million) deal on deadline day.<\/p>\n England<\/a> international Gu\u00e9hi joined rivals Manchester City<\/a> earlier this month. Sources told ESPN Liverpool had held talks over a January move for Netherlands<\/a> international Lutsharel Geertruida<\/a>, who is currently on a season-long loan at Sunderland<\/a> from RB Leipzig<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, Liverpool opted not to pursue the deal after Sunderland were unable to find a replacement.<\/p>\n Liverpool have suffered a host of defensive injuries this term, with Conor Bradley<\/a> and Giovanni Leoni out for the season, while Joe Gomez<\/a> and Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> are also sidelined.<\/p>\n Arne Slot’s defending Premier League champions are in 6th place, 14 points behind leaders Arsenal, but only two back of Manchester United in fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beth LindopFeb 1, 2026, 06:16 PM ET CloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-452771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}