Liverpool sign Man City academy product BETTER than Cole Palmer | OneFootball

We are talking about Jeremie Frimpong of course. Liverpool merely confirmed that he joined the club a few days ago and Anfield Watch has been able to excusively interview one of his former teammates from Manchester City.

Frimpong spent many years at City's academy developing alongside some of the players we mentioned above. Yet despite this, he never made a first team appearance and actually decided to leave the club when he was just a teenager.

Speaking to Anfield Watch, Joe Hardy, the former Manchester City academy forward, revealed Frimpong was always a massive talent at the club.

"He was always one of the ones," Hardy said.

"I think he was around the same age as Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Cole Palmer, I think he was in the same age as those guys. But Jeremie was the one I remember at under 18. He was the one that would come up from their age group and train and play with us.

"And he was always such a top lad. So funny.

"He was such a small quick player and he came and he dealt with playing against players two years older and playing right-back and he kind of got himself into a position where he was the starting right-back in the U18 team when he was still only 15 or 16-years-old."

Despite being above Palmer when it comes to getting those promotions and playing for City's U18s at a younger age, Frimpong had a much more difficult pathway into the first team, having to compete with Kyle Walker.

"It's one of those, you know, he's gonna be professional footballer, but you just don't know where. And I would say there's not many harder places to do it than than at City because obviously you can see what the team has done under Pep," Hardy said.

"Obviously Cole [Palmer] as well. But Jeremy was playing up instead of Cole throughout the Academy. So yeah, maybe a little I was surprised but you just have to look at the competition.

"They obviously had Kyle Walker and it's one of those where no matter how good you are and until you're actually better than what's there, then there's nothing really you can do."

It's really exciting to hear that there was a time when Frimpong was considered a bigger prospect than Palmer at Man City.

Hardy's words simply accentuate just how exciting of a talent Liverpool have on their hands. Frimpong is world-class and he has the potential to be even better.

In years to come, he'll have the opportunity to prove the talent Man City identified in him at such a young age in the Premier League.