{"id":295655,"date":"2023-11-19T19:41:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T19:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=295655"},"modified":"2023-11-19T19:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T19:41:43","slug":"jurgen-klopp-left-surprised-as-jarell-quansah-outlines-telling-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/jurgen-klopp-left-surprised-as-jarell-quansah-outlines-telling-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurgen Klopp left ‘surprised’ as Jarell Quansah outlines telling ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Liverpool defender Jarell Quansah is determined to keep exceeding expectations after leaving Jurgen Klopp ‘surprised’ with his impressive form so far this season. The former Bristol Rovers loanee has been handed a prominent role by the Reds manager in recent months and is certainly making the most of his opportunities to impress.<\/p>\n

Quansah made his full Premier League debut in September and has since racked up nine appearances for Liverpool in all competitions. His impressive showings earned him a debut call-up to England’s under-21 squad last month, with Klopp later admitting that he was initially surprised at just how well the defender has taken to first-team football at Anfield.<\/p>\n

“If you would have asked me in pre-season that he would have been that good I would have been surprised, but since then I have seen him every day and I am not surprised about it anymore because I know from the first day of pre-season how good a player he will be,” said Klopp earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Quansah is fully aware that such an impressive step up is rather unusual at the highest level, which has made his rapid rise at Liverpool even more commendable. It seems likely that he will continue to go from strength to strength for as long as he retains the trust of his manager, who saw what he was capable of on the training ground before bringing him into the first-team picture.<\/p>\n

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Responding to Klopp’s public praise, Quansah told the Liverpool Echo: “You can look at that both ways, can\u2019t you? ‘Surprised’ could be deemed as an interesting word, but I think the way he means it, I wasn\u2019t really expected to be there yet. I don\u2019t think it was a surprise of, I\u2019ve trained with them before and I\u2019m not a good player.<\/p>\n

“I think it was how soon it came and how I\u2019ve dealt with the adversity that I have been thrown into. I wouldn\u2019t say it was a surprise as in if he thought I was going to be a good player or not, because I\u2019ve shown that before in training sessions. It\u2019s probably not expected from going from a loan at Bristol Rovers to straight into the first team and doing as well as I did. I think that\u2019s where the surprise came from.”<\/p>\n