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A Liverpool signing from 2025 has described his first season at the club as 'hard' at times. The player, Jeremie Frimpong, was part of a record £446m spending spree by Liverpool.
āIām not going to lieā¦ā ā 2025 signing admits his first season at Liverpool has been āhardā
One of the multiple players who Liverpool signed last summer has admitted that heās found his first season at Anfield āhardā at times.
An unprecedented Ā£446m trolley dash by the Reds began with the Ā£29.5m acquisition of Jeremie Frimpong from Bayer Leverkusen only a few days after Arne Slotās side were presented with the Premier League trophy in May.
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The 25-year-oldās debut campaign on Merseyside has unfortunately been interrupted by three separate hamstring injuries which have ruled him out of 19 matches for the club across all competitions, much to his frustration.
In an interview withĀ The Telegraph, Liverpoolās number 30 admitted that coping with recurring injury problems has been mentally challenging and wouldāve been even harder if it werenāt for the support of his girlfriend and family.
Jeremie Frimpong admitted that he faced challenges during his initial season at Liverpool, although specific reasons were not detailed.
Liverpool's spending on new signings in 2025 reached an unprecedented total of £446 million.
The first player Liverpool signed in the summer of 2025 was Jeremie Frimpong, acquired for £29.5 million from Bayer Leverkusen.
The article does not provide specific details about Liverpool's performance after their 2025 signings, focusing instead on Frimpong's personal experience.

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Frimpong reflected: āIāve been faced with a lot of injuries. Normally I donāt get injured. The only time I had a layoff before was for a surgery after a bad tackle. There was nothing I could do about that, but for it to happen to myself? Hamstrings?
āItās never happened in my career. Iāve had three injuries and, on top of that, the team is not doing so well, like we should do. There have been a lot of challenges. If we could have won one of the FA Cup or the Champions League, it wouldnāt have been as bad.
āHow have I dealt with it? Iāve got my family; my girlfriend. You have to understand we are human. Weāve got feelings as well. When bad things happen, we think about it. The moment you go home, you think, āOhā. You have got to do something to stay away from going into your own mind.
āYou need your family and your loved ones, and that is what has got me through the difficult times this season. Iām not going to lie; itās been hard, but when I was down, I had people with me who made me be with them. They distract me, so Iām not just there sitting around looking at nothing.ā
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Aside from the all too frequent injury issues, Frimpongās form on the pitch has been condemned by Gabby Agbonlahor, who remarked that the Liverpool right-back hasnāt been good from either a defensive or attacking point of view.
Weād argue that the criticism from the ex-Aston Villa striker is harsh, with the Netherlands international often providing a threat along the right flank with his propensity to get forward, which has been praised in some quarters.
At the time of the 25-year-oldās transfer from Leverkusen, the Reds were riding the crest of a wave after winning the Premier League and seemed well-placed to go on and enjoy a prolonged period of either lifting or competing for major silverware.
Unfortunately, this season has been one of rapid decline for Liverpool, whose cause hasnāt been helped by a multitude of injury problems to players like Frimpong, Alisson Becker, Alexander Isak, Conor Bradley and now Hugo Ekitike.
Hopefully the 2026/27 campaign will be much kinder to the Dutch right-back on an individual and collective level.