"The defender grew by 10cm in a year, which was not without its complication. For 18 months, Jacquet hardly played and required surgery to remove the end of a cartilage. For Jerem, it was growth injuries, Osgood-Schlatter, things like that. You know you're going to lose time, recalls Laurent Viaud, his manager at under-19s level. As it transpires, those injuries gave Jacquet fresh momentum."
"When he came back, he wanted to eat everything up, says Viaud. It was bordering on us having to slow him down because we had to manage him because otherwise, at some point, he was going to explode. The day young players come back from injury they have a desire to grow because they know what it's like to be off the pitch, out of training. Suddenly, they forge a mentality that may be better than that of those who were permanently on the pitch."
Jeremy Jacquet missed 18 months of football due to rapid growth and associated injuries that required surgery to remove the end of a cartilage. He grew 10cm in a year, which limited playing time and coordination during his teenage years. On return he displayed intense drive and had to be managed to avoid overexertion. He trained within Rennes’ outstanding 2005 generation alongside Desire Doue, Mathys Tel, Jeanuel Belocian and Lesley Ugochukwu. Rennes observed that Jacquet retained technical gifts, combining speed, aggression, strong heading and midfield-derived technique. A loan recall from Clermont Foot preceded a €60m transfer to Liverpool.
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