Factfile10 things to know about Jeremie Frimpong

It was confirmed today that Frimpong has agreed a switch to the Premier League champions from Bayer Leverkusen ahead of the 2025-26 season.

Learn all about the new addition to Arne Slot’s squad below…

He’s versatile, pacy and energetic… Frimpong is comfortable anywhere on the right flank and thrived in a wing-back position for Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen. The 24-year-old’s top recorded speed of 36.34 kilometres per hour puts him among the fastest players in this season’s Bundesliga, while he also made the most sprints of any player in Germany’s top flight this term.

And a goal threat, too… Frimpong scored 30 goals and provided 44 assists in 190 appearances for Leverkusen. The Netherlands international’s most productive season came in 2023-24 as he recorded 14 goals and 12 assists in an historic, double-winning campaign for the German club.

Availability has been a strong suit… Frimpong missed just three of Leverkusen’s 102 Bundesliga games in the last three seasons and was an ever-present in both 2024-25 and 2022-23. He also started nine of Leverkusen’s 10 Champions League games this term – including their trip to Anfield in November – and came on as a substitute in the other.

He’s a league champion in two countries… Frimpong will arrive at Anfield having been a champion in both Germany, with Leverkusen in 2023-24, and Scotland, with Celtic in 2019-20. Indeed, with the latter he aided a treble success as the Glasgow club also claimed both the League Cup and FA Cup that season.

And an invincible… He was a key member of the Leverkusen team that won the 2023-24 Bundesliga title without losing a single game. He played in 47 of Leverkusen’s 53 matches across all competitions during a campaign in which they also lifted the DFB-Pokal and lost just once – in the Europa League final to Atalanta.

He could have played for three national teams… Born in Amsterdam, Frimpong was also eligible to play for Ghana – through his mother – and England, where he moved with his family at the age of seven. However, he chose to represent the country of his and his father’s birth, progressing through the Oranje age groups to make his senior international debut in October 2023.

He knows three of his new teammates well… Now an established full international with 12 caps to his name, Frimpong will be linking up with three of his fellow Netherlands players – Cody Gakpo, Ryan Gravenberch and Virgil van Dijk – plus, of course, a Dutch head coach in Slot on Merseyside. Overall, he is set to become the 13th Netherlands-born player to represent Liverpool.

This move has been a long time coming… Frimpong wanted to join Liverpool at the age of nine, as he explained in an interview with Rising Ballers earlier this season: “I chose Liverpool first. I was going to sign for them but back then driving wasn’t a thing. My family wasn’t driving and it was far. Man City was local, so it made more sense. It was 15 minutes on the bus.” He left City for Celtic in September 2019 having never played for their senior side.

There are Reds in the Frimpong family. While conducting his signing-day media duties, he revealed his dad and brother are already big Liverpool supporters. “I’m really excited and I know you guys are going to be excited for me,” he said. “Not just you two, my whole family. All my friends. And now all you guys can come to every match, you don’t have to watch it on the TV!”

And he’s already been practising his Scouse… Frimpong will fit right in at his new city, if a clip shared on the Dutch national team’s social media back in March is anything to go by. “You alright, la?” he playfully asked Gravenberch, before the pair shared a warm hug while in fits of laughter.