It’s been a tumultuous campaign for Bayer Leverkusen, setting the Bundesliga alight in the opening weeks of the season, before crashing back down to earth and since then hovering in and around mid-table. The superb duo of Moussa Diaby and Florian Wirtz have earned much of the praise for this attacking efficiency, yet it is another U23 talent whose impressive feats are going all but unnoticed on the continent.
Jeremie Frimpong played with Jadon Sancho at youth level for Manchester City and won a domestic treble with Celtic. Netherlands-born but with Ghanaian roots on his maternal side, Frimpong has actually spent over half his life in Great Britain. His family upped sticks for England when he was seven, and within two years the young boy from Amsterdam was kicking about in the Man City youth academy.
Frimpong crossed paths with Sancho in the U18s before the latter made a career-shaping move to Borussia Dortmund. Despite impressing with the U23s in Premier League 2 and the UEFA Youth League, the Dutchman left the Etihad Campus without playing a single minute of senior football.
He joined Glasgow Celtic on a 4-year deal in September of 2019 and this is where his potential started to turn into proven ability. His breakthrough season saw him get his first taste of winning trophies as part of the treble-winning team in 2019/20 season and he also won the club’s YPOTY award.
In 2021 he joined his current club Bayer Leverkusen for a fee in the region of 11 million pounds and he has continued to develop the skills that he showed at both Man City and Celtic.
He has yet to be given a full international cap by the Netherlands, and has recently rejected the advances from Ghana in the hopes of fulfilling his dream of playing for the nation of his birth.
How good is Jeremie Frimpong?
Jeremie Frimpong is a 21-year-old right-back who currently plays in Germany with Bundesliga outfit Bayer Leverkusen. The youngster joined the German club from Celtic in 2021 and has become an established starter in the Bundesliga. He is having an outstanding season with Leverkusen, scoring 5 goals and 4 assists.
Raw speed is one thing, but it’s Frimpong’s ability to turn such talent into true ball progression that separates him from other rapid young fullbacks. The Dutch under-21 international isn’t shy of beating an opponent or driving possession up the pitch.
The Dutch youth international is developing into one of the country’s most promising fullbacks, and if he can…
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