Availability has been a strong suit… Frimpong missed just three of Leverkusen’s 102 Bundesliga games in the last three seasons and was an ever-present in both 2024-25 and 2022-23. He also started nine of Leverkusen’s 10 Champions League games this term – including their trip to Anfield in November – and came on as a substitute in the other.
He’s a league champion in two countries… Frimpong will arrive at Anfield having been a champion in both Germany, with Leverkusen in 2023-24, and Scotland, with Celtic in 2019-20. Indeed, with the latter he aided a treble success as the Glasgow club also claimed both the League Cup and FA Cup that season.
And an invincible… He was a key member of the Leverkusen team that won the 2023-24 Bundesliga title without losing a single game. He played in 47 of Leverkusen’s 53 matches across all competitions during a campaign in which they also lifted the DFB-Pokal and lost just once – in the Europa League final to Atalanta.
He could have played for three national teams… Born in Amsterdam, Frimpong was also eligible to play for Ghana – through his mother – and England, where he moved with his family at the age of seven. However, he chose to represent the country of his and his father’s birth, progressing through the Oranje age groups to make his senior international debut in October 2023.
He knows three of his new teammates well… Now an established full international with 12 caps to his name, Frimpong will be linking up with three of his fellow Netherlands players – Cody Gakpo, Ryan Gravenberch and Virgil van Dijk – plus, of course, a Dutch head coach in Slot on Merseyside. Overall, he is set to become the 13th Netherlands-born player to represent Liverpool.
