Fans of Liverpool have spent the last few days with the porsing of Jeremie Frimpong Highlight Reels and absorbing every us information about the flying Dutchman.
This summer he emerged as a serious option for the Reds and, as Lewis Steele reported Tuesday, is very enthusiastic about moving to Anfield.
The Bayer Leverkusen -star taps a great subjects -the status of home soil, affordable release clause (£ 29 million), which enter his prime and good friends with the Dutch clique of Liverpool.
Losing Trent Alexander -Arnold has already seriously weakened the Premier League champions prior to the following season -so the Void Frimpong and Conor Bradley could combine to fill is an important one.
So how has Frimpong the career made this so far, what the statistics reveal (they may surprise you) and what makes him away from the field?
Here we take a deep dive in everything that is Frimpong for a full view of the man who could become the first signing of Liverpool of a huge summer.
Intended for the top?
Strangely enough, Frimpong Liverpool Red could have carried as a young person. When he tore it for AFC Clayton and Clayton Villa in Manchester, he explained, he took a hat trick in a cup final as a striker and the attention was noticed.
But in the end it was geography that turned out to be the decisive factor. Frimpong previously told Rising Ballers: 'I actually chose Liverpool first. I started signing for them, but then driving wasn't nothing.
“My family didn't drive and it was far. Man City was locally, so it was more logical. It was 15 minutes on the bus. '
At the age of 18 he took the leap to move to Celtic and almost bottled, and asked the driver to turn around halfway through the journey before his brother calmed him.
His ambition was justified, that season they won a treble and he has credited the impact that Neil Lennon had to increase his confidence. Celtic paid £ 300,000 for him, but would make a neat profit on the amount only two years later.
After just over half a century of races for the hoops, Frimpong moved to Leverkusen for £ 11.5 million – although Lennon had tried to convince him to stay and said: “I would not say he was unhappy. Maybe ambitious, or he wanted to try something else to continue his career.
'The club received a really robust offer and we thought it was a good business. He made me clear and on the board he wanted to leave. '
It wasn't long before Frimpong would enter himself. He played 34 games in his first full season and delivered six assists for the German side. It was a sign of the things that would come.
He supported it with eight goals and seven assists in the next campaign – songs that every attacking player would be satisfied with.
Then came the incredible campaign of Leverkusen under Xabi Alonso – an invincible Bundesliga title and German cup win.
Frimpong was the constant threat on the right flank – scored 14 times and set 12 goals to play an integral part of the success.
His figures have fallen somewhat this year, albeit still respectable, mirroring liver muses that might return to norm. But there is no doubt about three years at the club that he is coming to the fore as one of the world's best wing trays.
Now he has set his sights on a return to England as the first part of the revolution of Arne Slot.
A worthy replacement of Alexander-Arnold?
Alexander-Arnold is a unicorn in football terms. He has redefined the right back position and Liverpool will be aware that the search for a like-for-like replacement is a game of fools.
Frimpong will not replicate the incredible technical skills on the ball or accidental creation of the man to Real Madrid.
But he does offer a different threat. The first big characteristic to hang your hat is speed. It is not a characteristic that Liverpool has in abundance and Frimpong is fast.
This season he clocked 36.34 km/pH and ranked him seventh fastest in the Bundesliga. And his acceleration is blistering, with the possibility to quickly create separation before he assesses his options.
In a Liverpool team that is often confronted with compact defenses, they need new ways to open the door without Alexander-Arnold choosing the lock.
An important risk that the Liverpool number crunchers will sweat is how Frimpong will do it if more an orthodox back.
Under Alonso, this season he played 89 percent of the games in the right midfield area, starting as a wingback but pushes high on the field.
Another six percent of the time is in attacking midfield positions and four percent as a standard wing-back in his own half.
“He is an attacking threat but cannot defend,” is the concern baked online, so it's true?
According to Whoscored, his tackle success is 71.7 percent, Miles free of the 56.3 percent of Alexander-Arnold.
On average, he makes fewer tackles per 90 minutes, but that can be explained by his positioning far on the field, which means that a lower number of defensive duels.
The other defensive statistics are not impressive across the board. Third centille for interceptions and blocks and first centiel for approvals.
Frimpong was previously omitted from Dutch squadrons based on his observed defensive shortcomings, raised by Ronald Koeman as a reason for exclusion.
But he has worked hard to improve, using a private coach for extra sessions.
How much of this is Frimpong's inability to do the basics? It seems more likely that he is simply not often enough at the back in those positions, where Bayer dominates the possession and must be an attacking outlet. But that is a risk that Liverpool will have to weigh.
Alexander-Arnold's Dwarsfeest of 26 percent is higher than Frimpong's (19) and the Englishman also has almost double the number of important passes (two per game).
Frimpong's figures such as Dribbler are larger, rating in the 98th percentile for progressive wears. He is a runner, not a passer -by.
It would be stylistically fascinating to see how Slot would change Liverpool's approach and whether the busy wide play of Frimpong in the space of Mo Salah would eat on the right, or the Egyptian would make more centrally floated.
Anime and Fifa obsessed – does he fit into culture?
Frimpong has come into its own as a character in recent years, at least in public. He seems constantly cheerful, smiling and the life and soul of the party.
After the title profit of Leverkusen, he was brilliant value in the interview after the game with Archie Rhind-Tutt, resting an arm on his shoulder and drenched with beer.
The reporter recently spoke about it against the Anfield -Wrap and said: 'We are waiting for our presenter Kay Murray to come to us and he just starts leaning on me, and I am so of what …
“I looked at him and thought,” What are you doing “, and he shouts the camera:” Every casual TV!? ” And he smelled of beer, but he was delighted. My most important thought about this is that I know the Trent Alexander-Arnold topic at the moment, is a painful, but look that as a painful ex.
“But hey, if Jeremie Frimpong is the man who comes around, you will forget him very, very quickly. I didn't even say how he is as a football player, but for me it feels like a side issue for the person he is. '
Fans of Liverpool had a pinch for the first time that Frimpong could be an option when a clip came to the fore that Ryan Gravenberch greeted in international duty by turning on a Liverpudlian -Acent and saying: “Okay Lad!”
He is close to the midfielder of Liverpool and said earlier that the interviewer says: “I tried the piece of skill today because I looked at Gravenberch in Liverpool yesterday, so I thought:” let me try “. If Ryan keeps doing it, I'll do it. '
Frimpong is Gregarious and full of confidence, but it does not wander in arrogance and he describes himself as a family man, with three brothers and three sisters. He has a relationship with girlfriend Tamira Blankson since last spring and occasionally shares photos of them together on Instagram.
He is an anime obsessive – a fixation that started with Dragon Ball Z when he was younger and is regularly seen who carry T -shirts that refer to different characters from the Japanese cartoons.
He even mentioned his dog Akamaru, the pet of an anime character called Kiba Inuzuka.
Frimpong is not easily angry, but revealed the only time he is really hacked is when playing FIFA.
“Mobile phones, doors, controllers – I broke many things,” he told the Leverkusen website.
“Oh my God. When I'm behind and just play the opponent at the back, I lose it. If he then writes after the game: “That was bad luck for you” – Arghhh. Then I have to switch off the console and drop my head. That helps me. '
Liverpool is always diligent with their personality controls before they sign a players in order not to disturb the carefully constructed ecosystem of their dressing room and they will be well aware of Frimpong's popularity among teammates.
They take on a similar policy as the All Blacks of 'No D *** Heads' and would undoubtedly be impressed by Frimpong's philanthropic efforts.
He shares photos of work with children in Ghana, one of the nations for which he qualified, together with England and Holland.
And last year he launched a charity called Pathways, designed to relentless players relentlessly let go of clubs like young people and to find themselves lost in the world.
He said to ESPN: 'A day you are told that a professional football player is not succeeding.
'Your dream has been destroyed. You feel vulnerable. Depressed. Totally depressed. I think it is important that there are people who help you. You are just a child. You shouldn't do that alone either. That is why I started this project. I want to help the youth as much as possible.
'I know what it's like to be told that you are not becoming a professional football player. I have many people around me who this happened. To hear that a child is the worst thing there is, “Frimpong said.
'I feel that clubs leave you afterwards. They don't help you. As a child it is too much to continue that alone. I know you have a family, but sometimes that is not enough. '