Jarell Quansah welcome to/he's already at Liverpool!

[Megadrive Man]

May as well get a thread going for our newest defender.

 

Welcome to  he's already here!

 

A 20 year old from Warrington. Been at the club since the age of 5.

 

"He made 16 appearances for Bristol Rovers last season.  Rovers manager Joey Barton said,

“I’m mindful of not heaping too much on the kids but, why not?” Barton said, in response to a question around whether Quansah could one day play for England. “He’s as good on the ball that you’ll need to be in terms of building out from the back. He’s going to get bigger, he’s going to get stronger, he’s going to get faster. His anticipation of the game is going to be better because more senior games get you that.

“The one concern we had when we brought him in was his heading ability because we knew he could leap, he could score a goal at the back post, but he’s getting well-versed in the physical, aerial contact. But the heading he’s doing from a defensive standpoint is what any senior would be proud of. He has an enormous future in front of him"

 

Here is the obligatory Youtube video,

 

[Strontium]

He's going to save us millions.

 

Failing that, there's a career opening as a bosun on Henry's superyacht.

[YNWAViking]

He might or might not be our Saviour. 

[TD_LFC]

Remember the days when we used to hope for youngsters to make it into the first team instead of being cynical and fearful in case a 20 year old academy product stopped us buying someone else's 20 year old academy product.

[Jairzinho]

Interesting use of the word "we".

[Ashberry]

Scoped out what Bristol Rovers fans views were. General consensus was he was liable for a mistake in each game but will ultimately play at a level higher than they are in.

[TD_LFC]

2 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Interesting use of the word "we".

 

Why?

 

It used to be a source of pride for supporters to see young players coming through, it was a wider footballing concern when that dried up at lots of clubs with the influx of foreign players so to see the odd one or two every few seasons would be encouraging and something the likes of City are making use of.

 

If Quansah being given a chance is instead of a genuine ready to start signing then obviously it's a different matter but if it was in place of signing an equivalent youngster then I hope he takes his chance.

[beejay]

Watched him through the junior ranks, very calm, composed and has all the physical attributes of a centre back. Good in possession and excellent passer of the ball through the lines. 

 

The one criticism is not seeing a runner going in behind him. At that level you would expect the coaches to be constantly at the defence to be moving their heads all the time to be aware of danger and hopefully the message has got through. 

 

Interesting to see Barton's comments about aerial strength, Quansah is big enough but probably does need to develop the strength to deal with powerful strikers jumping with him. 

 

I've always thought he could become a top level player,  stood out from the pack and with the right nurturing of his talent we may have a winner. 

[TD_LFC]

1 minute ago, beejay said:

The one criticism is not seeing a runner going in behind him.

 

He'll fit right in.

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, beejay said:

 

Interesting to see Barton's comments about aerial strength, Quansah is big enough but probably does need to develop the strength to deal with powerful strikers jumping with him. 

 

 

I think that comment was directed to the offensive side of his game.

[Strontium]

17 minutes ago, Ashberry said:

he was liable for a mistake in each game

 

He just gets us.

[dave u]

23 minutes ago, Ashberry said:

Scoped out what Bristol Rovers fans views were. General consensus was he was liable for a mistake in each game but will ultimately play at a level higher than they are in.

 

20 in centre back years is like 15 in other positions. Hardest position for a kid to play as they will always make mistakes, it goes with the territory. If he's liable for one a game that's normal and it's exactly why you loan them out, so they can make those mistakes with someone else.

 

He should get the Europa League games and domestic cup games against lower league opponents. That should speed along his development, but realistically, at our level, you're looking at a minimum of 22 years old to have a chance of nailing down a regular spot.

 

This lad does have genuine star potential though, unlike some of the other young centre backs we've seen hyped up.

[Bjornebye]

3 hours ago, Megadrive Man said:

 

"He made 16 appearances for Bristol Rovers last season.  Rovers manager Joey Barton said,

“I’m mindful of not heaping too much on the kids but, why not?” Barton said, in response to a question around whether Quansah could one day play for England. “He’s as good on the ball that you’ll need to be in terms of building out from the back. He’s going to get bigger, he’s going to get stronger, he’s going to get faster. His anticipation of the game is going to be better because more senior games get you that.

“The one concern we had when we brought him in was his heading ability because we knew he could leap, he could score a goal at the back post, but he’s getting well-versed in the physical, aerial contact. But the heading he’s doing from a defensive standpoint is what any senior would be proud of. He has an enormous future in front of him"

 

Here is the obligatory Youtube video,

 

 

Nah you just stub cigars out in their eyes Joey 

[TheHowieLama]

We have 32 year old CB's that have a mistake a game in them.

[TheHowieLama]

Good guy.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Good guy.

A bit of a different game for him today: from 10 men chasing the game away from home to 11 men strolling to victory at Anfield.  Never put a foot wrong in either game.

 

I hope he gets plenty of minutes in the UEFA Cup.

[TheHowieLama]

Just now, AngryOfTuebrook said:

A bit of a different game for him today: from 10 men chasing the game away from home to 11 men strolling to victory at Anfield.  Never put a foot wrong in either game.

 

I hope he gets plenty of minutes in the UEFA Cup.

 

He will get minutes in the next two weeks.

[niallers]

He looks composed and his positional sense seems to be OK. Europa minutes, at home especially, and the league Cup v leicester will do him the world o good.

[VladimirIlyich]

I wish him well. His biggest weakness is being from Warrington!

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

People seem to assume that we let our fifth choice CB go on loan to Celtic. I would think it’s obvious that Nat Phillips was now 6th choice, as Quansah has stepped ahead of him.

 

How good he is I have no idea, and we should’ve brought in a new defender in the summer imo, but hopefully this lad is better than we all think. It at least seems pretty clear he isn’t an option of pure emergency like Rhys Williams was.

[rubble-rouser]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I wish him well. His biggest weakness is being from Warrington!

[El Rojo]

He’ll get loads of playing time this season in the other competitions, I reckon, which will be great for his development.

 

Physically, he already looks like a centre half.

[VladimirIlyich]

2 hours ago, rubble-rouser said:

I will also add John Richards and Steve Kindon,both of Wolves when they were a genuine European side to that list myself.

[Scott_M]

A significantly easier game to come into than last Sunday, he did well again.

[Barrington Womble]

4 hours ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

People seem to assume that we let our fifth choice CB go on loan to Celtic. I would think it’s obvious that Nat Phillips was now 6th choice, as Quansah has stepped ahead of him.

 

How good he is I have no idea, and we should’ve brought in a new defender in the summer imo, but hopefully this lad is better than we all think. It at least seems pretty clear he isn’t an option of pure emergency like Rhys Williams was.

agreed, he seems to be ahead of williams and phillips. i think klopp generally likes to have an emerging player in each department. no problems with that. but i think our defence probably needed one or two more and an emerging talent. but hopefully this lad can step up and it'll make the next windows easier as we need to start thinking about matip, vvd and robbo at the very least.