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Jarell Quansah joined Bristol Rovers on loan on January 20. Now, 11 months on, he’s set to play for Liverpool in the League Cup quarter-finals.

It’s been a year to remember for the 20-year-old. At the start of 2023, he was yet to make his senior debut. While he’d thrice been on the bench for Jurgen Klopp’s side, with the second coming against Leicester City the last time the Reds competed in the League Cup quarter-finals in December 2022, a seven-minute substitute appearance in a mid-season friendly with AC Milan in Dubai on December 16 was the limit of his first team involvement.

Yet he’d impress on loan in League One with Bristol Rovers, making 16 appearances during a half-season stint before making an impression in pre-season when back at Liverpool. But while he had enjoyed an eye-catching story so far, that hasn’t made his meteoric rise since returning to Anfield any less surprising.

"If you would have asked me pre-season (if) he would be that good I would have been surprised but since then I saw him every day and I am not surprised any more,” Klopp told reporters last month. "It's great to have a boy from our own academy with that potential and quality.

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“We will see where he ends up but it is extremely promising. There was talk about him going on loan and we said 'no', that was obviously a very good decision."

Quansah will make his 13th appearance for the Reds if he features against West Ham United on Wednesday night. Five of those have come in the Premier League, including two from the start, while on his last appearance for the club, against Union SG in the