Liverpool lost the last English pearl

Fábio Carvalho was born in Lisbon but is an international with the lower categories of England and a youth squad for Fulham, where he made his debut in the Premier League last year. This campaign has stood out in second place and Liverpool tried to take him to Anfield, but there was no time to finalize the agreement. It was a race against time. Liverpool was late to the finish line. The Athletic He says that Fábio Carvalho left his London home at seven o’clock on Monday afternoon to undergo a medical examination with the Reds in the English capital. There were four hours left on the market, but the parties involved never reached an agreement to be able to register the English under-18 international. Negotiations were delayed, with Anfield offering five million pounds and Fulham demanding more.

Finally, the transfer was sealed at eight million plus clauses. Fábio Carvalho would end the campaign on loan at Craven Cottage to help Marco Silva’s men return to the Premier League. Late. Top-flight clubs have a two-hour extension to submit all the paperwork if they can prove agreement before 11pm, when the market closes, but lower-tier clubs do not. This same course also ends the 19-year-old footballer’s contract, so he could reach Anfield in the summer. This will happen if Carvalho does not decide to renegotiate the agreement, or if another club decides to cast the net on him. Whoever takes him will have to pay a kind of compensation to Fulham, in whose quarry the player grew up for the last seven years. Any English club, including Liverpool, will have to agree such a sum with the London club or go to court. In case of being a foreign club, the figure would always be below half a million pounds as stipulated by FIFA regulations. A bargain that has aroused the interest of teams like Real Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, ​​Borussia Dortmund and Milan, among others.

Despite his 19 years, the player born in Lisbon but an English international, already knows what it is to score in the Premier League. Fábio Carvalho is an attacking midfielder who likes to receive on foot and drive. Skilled with his back to goal and a good dribbler, he made his debut against Chelsea at the end of last season. He started two weeks later against Southampton, scoring Fulham’s goal of honor in a 3-1 loss. With relegation complete, Carvalho has been one of the sensations in the second division this season. It has been consummated as a key piece in Marco Silva’s scheme. In 18 league games, he has scored seven times and provided five assists. He has four consecutive games scoring or assisting, or as against Birmingham on January 18, doing both.