Brentford signed Fabio Carvalho from Liverpool for a switch price of as much as £27.5 million.
The 21-year-old attacking midfielder’s preliminary deal is value £22.5m with £5m in add-ons.
As a part of the package deal, Liverpool have a 17.5% sell-on clause.
Southampton and Leicester Metropolis are additionally inquisitive about Carvalho, who has signed a five-year contract with Brentford having the choice to increase for an additional 12 months.
“Fabio is a participant with many qualities,” Brentford supervisor Thomas Frank informed the membership’s official web site. “He can play in a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 formation. Three or 4 positions up entrance. His greatest place might be as a No. 10 or coming in from the left.
“Offensively, he has nice ball management: he can beat gamers, slide previous gamers, create alternatives and take them. He’s a participant we do not have many within the group, so he’ll add one thing additional for us. one thing.
Carvalho joined Liverpool for £5 million in 2022 after turning into one in every of Fulham’s most enjoyable younger graduates.
He scored 12 objectives in 44 appearances for the west London facet, the vast majority of which got here within the Championship in the course of the promotion interval.
As a part of the switch, Fulham have been granted a 20% sale clause, which will probably be paid out of the earnings from Carvalho’s transfer to Brentford.
Carvalho performed 21 instances for Liverpool and scored 3 objectives.
After a spell with RB Leipzig within the second half of final season, he impressed on mortgage at Hull Metropolis, scoring 9 objectives in 20 Championship video games.
Brentford will kick off the 2024/25 Premier League season in opposition to Crystal Palace on Tremendous Sunday, dwell on Sky Sports activities.