Liverpool are preparing a £5m bid for Fulham playmaker Fabio Carvalho, according to the Sun.
With the talented teenager’s Craven Cottage contract due to expire at the end of the season, the Premier League champions are about to test the Londoners’ resolve to keep hold of Carvalho by tabling a January offer. Liverpool are ready to make their move as West Ham are also considering try to tempt Carvalho to east London in January.
The Sun suggests that Jorge Mendes is assisting Carvalho’s brother in plotting the nineteen year-old’s next move. Marco Silva remains hopeful of persuading the England youth international, who scored in Saturday’s 6-2 thumping of Bristol City, to commit his future to the Cottagers – but Fulham are well aware that their academy graduate is attracting interest from right across Europe.
Liverpool signed Carvalho’s former Fulham team mate Harvey Elliott last summer in an acrimonious transfer – the fee for which was eventually decided through a protracted tribunal process.
You have to respect Liverpool for trying it on again here, I suppose.
Surely we’d get more than £5m from a tribunal given how much first-team football Fab has played?
5m?yeah and the rest
We need to be better at drawing up these graduate contracts – lost too many players for little money. Fab has to be worth £20m and these numbnuts are bidding £5m. Stuff Liverpool, we should be having nothing to do with them.
We should offer Carvalho, a contract worthwhile to keep him for a few years at least.