Fabio Carvalho

Liverpool are closing in on what is likely to be another shrewd piece of transfer business. The Reds have been trailing the 19-year-old Fulham winger for ...

Marko Grujic spent a season on loan at Porto and doubled the money that the Reds paid for him when the Portuguese side opted to make it permanent in a £10.5m deal last summer. Liverpool's misses in the transfer market over the past decade are few, and that is a trend that doesn't look like changing soon. Carvalho has already shown he has mastered the Championship and is more than comfortable at that level, the next challenge being to test himself in the Premier League, something that he did very briefly at the end of the 2020/21 season when Fulham were relegated. The reasons for that are numerous, from the simple lift that being a part of Liverpool brings to value, to his bow on the senior international stage like to be expedited through him changing allegiance to Portugal, and playing for Portugal means that he will likely be playing on the big stages at the major tournaments, something that also adds to value. At present that £7m valuation is really over what you would expect to pay for a player whose contract is up in the summer and who has no intention to stay. But the two parties reached an agreement in the weeks that followed and it now looks like one of the most exciting young talents in English football will join the Reds ranks for next season.