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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
David Hytner

Leverkusen’s Jarell Quansah keeps calm and carries on in his steady rise to stardom

Jarell Quansah.
Jarell Quansah has played every minute for Bayer Leverkusen this season. Photograph: Vitalii Kliuiev/Alamy

“From the outside, it seems crazy,” Jarell Quansah says, as he reflects on his summer just gone, when dizzying change felt like a constant. “But it is one of them … football is a crazy game.”

A quick recap. Days after winning the European Under-21 Championship with England at the end of June, Quansah decided to leave Liverpool, his boyhood club, to go to Bayer Leverkusen in a £30m deal.

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