'Don't think I'm going to': Jarell Quansah still can't believe what's happened

Liverpool’s Jarell Quansah still can’t believe what’s happened to him. The defender has enjoyed a whirlwind 12 months.

Jarell Quansah was pretty much an unknown quantity this time a year ago. He'd just finished half a season on loan at Bristol Rovers in League One - the only senior football of his career.

He impressed as part of Liverpool's preseason squad, however, and eventually earned himself a look-in under Jurgen Klopp. Quansah would make his competitive debut in August and caught the eye every time he got minutes.

As he got better and better, Quansah got more and more football. He played 33 games by the end of the season - a long way above the 'zero' many would have predicted the previous July.

In fact, Quansah also forced his way past far more senior players by the end. He was starting over Ibrahima Konaté in Klopp's final games - a player who would go to Euro 2024 with France.

Quansah even got a look-in with England as part of their provisional squad in May. It's been an incredible rise, in other words, and the 21-year-old still can't quite believe it.

Jarell Quansah can't believe his rise

"I was waiting for the moment for it to click and stuff like that, but I don't think I'm going to get used to what happened last season," Quansah told LFCTV. "I'm always a person who wants to improve and kick on.

"I look at the positives and the negatives, and I just try to take it all in and try to improve for the next season really. That's what my reflecting sort of told me – it was just about how to kick on and how to be the best version of myself."

Of course, one of the strange things for Quansah is that he kind of has to do it all over again. He earned a place in Klopp's first XI but then the German immediately left.

Now he must impress a new manager and try to get back to where he was. There can be little doubt that he's capable of it, though.