Jamie Carragher believes Jeremy Jacquet is already proving an upgrade on Ibrahima Konate at centre-back for Liverpool.
Jacquet has been in impressive form since arriving from Rennes in the summer after a £60million deal was agreed earlier in the year. The 21-year-old posted a man-of-the-match performance in the win at Bournemouth last weekend and has been integral in the Reds keeping three successive Premier League clean sheets for the first time in more than two years.
Carragher's verdict on Jacquet
And former Liverpool defender Carragher is convinced Jacquet is ensuring Konate, who failed to agree a new deal at Anfield and instead joined Real Madrid in the summer, is not being missed.
"You look at someone and think 'I don't want to get too carried away, because it's only six games and he's a kid'," said Carragher.
"But you're looking and thinking 'he looks really good'. And I said something like this (on commentary for Bournemouth vs Liverpool), the Liverpool team is made up of lots of ins and outs over the last couple of years, and in the main the players who've come in are probably not better than those who've gone out. Hence why we've dropped off a little bit.
"But he (Jacquet) looks a big improvement on Ibrahima Konate. There were about 25 minutes left, and I'm thinking he's going to make a mistake at some stage.
"So, as I said, I apologise if I was going on too much about him. But he looks the part, doesn't he?"
Concerns over Wirtz and Isak
Carragher also continued expressing concerns over Florian Wirtz while highlighting the change in fortunes this season for fellow £100m-plus signing Alexander Isak.
Speaking on the latest episode of The Overlap Fan Debate, he said: "They're the two most expensive players we signed last year. Alexander Isak is now getting the goals and coming into it, but it's still not happening for Florian Wirtz. I'm not going to say any more on it, but I wonder if there are other options in the squad to maybe change this."
"In some ways, and this probably sounds silly, Wirtz is a replacement for Trent Alexander-Arnold, because Liverpool's most creative player was a full-back.
"It was a freak; it was not normal. So, when Trent was leaving, you can't go and buy a right-back who does that, that's impossible. What Liverpool didn't have was a Kevin De Bruyne or a Martin Odegaard. They had workmanlike midfielders, but the creative spark was in Trent."
