England international joining Liverpool is now inevitable

Liverpool are in need of centre-backs and an England international now seems destined to join.

Jeremy Jacquet and Giovanni Leoni has future proofed the club's line-up. For many years to come, Liverpool have two of the most exciting young centre-back talents in world football.

However, while Jacquet and Leoni will provide important depth, they won't be enough considering Ibrahima Konate's future is up in the air and Joe Gomez could also be leaving for pastures new.

Liverpool will need more players to bolster those centre-back areas and the club's recruitment team will be exploring a number of different candidates.

It's also important to note that if Gomez leaves, Liverpool will be losing not only an England international but a valuable homegrown player.

Over the course of the last few seasons, the Reds have lost a lot of those. Homegrown players are already rare in the squad so the club should be looking at potential players who fit that criteria and who are good enough to play for the Reds.

When it comes to potential options there are none better than Jarell Quansah. He's one of the best young English centre-backs around at the moment.

Quansah is an England international and he's already been in and around Liverpool's first-team squad.

Having come through the academy, Quansah is a local lad and there are debates to be had whether Liverpool should have sold him in the first place.

He's since arrived at a chaotic Bayer Leverkusen side, who are still feeling from losing their manager in Xabi Alonso and some of their best players in Granit Xhaka, Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong.

But Quansah has done extremely well. He's been nominated for Player of the Month in the Bundesliga in January and has continued to attract the attention of Thomas Tuchel, who is in charge of the England national team at the moment.

Quansah's composure on the ball and his reading of the game make him an elite defender and he could be an ideal option to bring in.

He qualifies as homegrown player and more important as a club homegrown player.

Quansah is simply an obvious choice for Liverpool. Especially because Hughes has pretty much already put everything in place for him to return to the club.

Liverpool have a £70m agreement in place to buy-back Quansah from Leverkusen as per a recent report.

And their agreement goes even further. As we wrote previously, Liverpool also have a pre-agreement for a contract with Quansah if that £70m buy-back clause was triggered.

At this stage, it's inevitable that Hughes is going to trigger those agreements and bring Quansah back to Anfield. He would not have put as much work in if he didn't intend in doing it.

We've seen other clubs operate in this way, too. Dani Carvajal went to Leverkusen and then Real Madrid activated their buy-back clause and he became a legend at the club.

Quansah could follow in his footsteps, only at Anfield.

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