Romano claims Liverpool see Fulham starlet as ‘top future talent’
Liverpool are monitoring Fulham attacking midfielder Fabio Carvalho after his recent form caught the eye, according to Fabrizio Romano.
The Portugal-born England under-18 international has been on fire for Fulham this season as the Londoners sit eight points clear at the top of the Championship table.
Carvalho has scored eight goals and provided two assists in 17 Championship appearances for Marco Silva’s men this campaign.
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Carvalho, who was selected in our top five teenagers in the Championship feature earlier in the season, is in demand with a host of clubs lining up to take the 19-year-old, who made his senior debut in the Premier League last term.
And transfer expert Romano has now that Liverpool ‘have been monitoring Fabio Carvalho as top future talent for months’ with the Premier League club continuing to ‘watch him closely’.
Despite that, Romano insists there are currently no bids on the table for the former Benfica academy midfielder with ‘nothing discussed for January move yet’ with ‘many clubs in the race’.
Liverpool have been monitoring Fabio Carvalho as top future talent for months – Carvalho’s doing great with Marco Silva at Fulham and Liverpool are watching him closely 🔴🇵🇹 #LFC
There’s still no bid on the table – nothing discussed for January move yet. Many clubs in the race. pic.twitter.com/7LPEkkGN9e
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 23, 2022
Meanwhile, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has been pleased that his side have managed to record three successive clean sheets without some of their best players.
Klopp told the club’s official website ahead of their match against Crystal Palace on Sunday: “It’s essential, the only way you can do it. When you lose key players for injuries or tournaments or whatever, the solution is not that you will be flying in the next game and you say, ‘OK, now we score five or six’ and you create chances like hell and all these kind of things.
“Wherever they are on the pitch, whether they are strikers, midfielders or wherever, [when] you lose key players you have to adapt.
“In our case it was 100 per cent clear that we have to be solid, rock solid. It’s a clear agreement, maybe you don’t see it all the time, but ‘defending first’: we have to be organised, that is the basis for everything we do and in this moment I can see outstanding commitment to our defending, that’s how it is.
“Really, everybody is 100 per cent involved in everything because they understand it’s now more important than ever and that’s helpful. That we didn’t concede then, I don’t know all the situations but probably [is down to] Ali as well, that he made a couple of important saves, that’s clear.
“But that was clear: we have to do it like this, we have to put defending above everything to have a chance for results – and we want to have results. It’s not about that you fly through all periods of the season [with] three, four, five-nil results or whatever.
“You have to win football games 1-0, that’s how it is. I like them as well. I don’t like the 90 minutes most of the time but afterwards I take them like I take all other results! That’s obviously necessary and the boys understood.”