Fabio Carvalho will join Liverpool for an initial £5m when his Fulham contract expires this summer, according to various reports this evening.
The Portuguese under-21 international had been expected to move to Anfield in January but, despite passing a medical and agreeing personal terms, the deal fell through at the eleventh hour. The Premier League champions were keen to avoid the stand-off with Fulham that saw Harvey Elliott’s protracted transfer from the London club settled by a tribunal and the parties have now reached agreement over a move that will be completed on July 1.
As well as the £5m up front fee, Fulham will receive a set of add-on payments that could total £2.7m based on Carvalho’s individual appearances for the Merseyside club, Liverpool winning domestic and European competitions and senior international appearances. The Championship leaders will be entitled to 20% of any future transfer fee received by Liverpool for Carvalho, who will not return to Craven Cottage on loan next season.
The 19 year-old, who scored his first Premier League start for the club last season, has starred as Fulham have stormed to the top of the Championship under Marco Silva. Carvalho, who will put pen to paper on a five-year contract at Liverpool, has scored eight goals and added seven assists in 31 appearances this term – flourishing in the number ten role behind Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Now the deal is done I don’t think he should play again this season. I would like one of the other players take his place who will be at Fulham next season like jay Stansfield
I sincerely hope for his sake he doesn’t end up on loan somewhere and then somewhere again…. forgotten just like what’s his name at Man City??
Wish Fabio all the best, thanks for giving us some great moments. Hope the club continues to learn from this loss of young talent, would have liked to see him continue playing for us next season.
Just remembered that name Roberts…..plays in League 1 on-loan of course for Sunderland.
What can Fulham learn can’t beat the rules of youth football , and can’t force a player to sign a contract
So he has been with the club since he was young, we have nurtured him and coached him all the way to first team level and he treats us like this! At least Patrick Roberts done the right thing for the club in commanding a decent fee. Actions speak louder than words and it’s obviously clear what this guy thinks about our club.
Unfortunately we have so much previous in just allowing our academy plays to seemingly drift out of contract whilst all the time knowing that the bigger clubs like Liverpool will exploit it to the max. Quite rightly Liverpool fans go on about justice, however I can’t hear many of there fans complaining about how they exploit smaller clubs down the food chain.
The one takeaway from this is that we must do more to keep our academy products. And if they are to leave let’s make sure we at least manage to command a decent fee-5Million is absolutely disgraceful!
All academy and youth players should be on a one year rolling contract – always a year in hand. If you want to learn at the best academy, sign up. Beneficial for the player if we want to let them go (year’s money) and good for us as we won’t be put in this intolerable position of getting shafted.
Gary C, a one year rolling contract would have been useless as he ran down that last year that was on his contract…. so we would constantly be getting ‘put in this intolerable position’ constantly
You can’t make an employee stay at an employer. I know it is frustrating but why would he have signed a contract extension when he can earn far more and play at Liverpool? Stop laying into the kid. This deal was done behind the scenes verbally months ago. He has still given everything for us. Good luck to him I say. Maybe he’ll end up on the bench maybe he’ll become a star. Either way he’ll earn a Qfortune and be following his dream. Yes Patrick Roberts didn’t make it but Moussa Dembele did and looks like Harvey Elliot could.
Patrick Roberts was the bloke who went to Man City and disappeared. The fault there was the then manager Kit Symonds who never played him. Carvalho the meeja say has agreed a transfer to the Scouse bench. It’s called stockpiling