Quansah Liverpool contract includes flash car clause

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21 Dec 2023 • 1:58 PM MYT
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Liverpool youngster Jarell Quansah is said to have a car clause in his contract.

The 20-year-old has broken through in the first team and is thriving under manager Jurgen Klopp.

However, he has done what all young players at the club are required to do when they sign pro contracts with the Reds.

Quansah and other younger players in and around the first team cannot arrive at the club's training ground in flashy cars.

The specifics of the policy are left up to discretion, per academy director Alex Inglethorpe.

"There's a balance, so what we now do is that the players sign up to a car clause. You don't want them driving in with a Range Rover," he explained on the We Are Liverpool podcast.

"The reason you don't want them driving in with something which is too big, too grand, too much of a statement is because it's not just the manager and staff that might have an opinion on you but it's the senior players.

"I'm not sure that James Milner, Jordan Henderson, Andy Robertson, the first cars they drove, there would've been an element of humility and I use it in a presentation with the boys. "You can't go into a race you're never going to win, I don't mean with the car, I mean with life, you can't think 'I am a first-team player because I have a better car'.

"We could afford to pay them more but we don't because I don't think that would be right, there's something around deferred gratification than instant, you should earn it a little bit and the players know if we don't approve of their car, they can park it in the David Lloyd [Gym] car park but it won't be in the Academy. I don't want to be an idiot about it but I don't want them to work 10 years for an audition and fail it before they've even set foot on the pitches."