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Speaking exclusively to RMC Sport, AS Monaco’s Fabinho explained the process behind his move to Liverpool, which was confirmed this evening.
“Contacts have been ongoing for a few weeks. I spoke with people at the club, with the manager, they gave me a lot of confidence. I wanted to go to a club that really wanted me, who showed great interest. With all that, it was easy to say yes. I thought about it a bit and I said to my agent that he could enact the deal. I am very happy that this has been done at the start of the window… I had two real choices, not just interest. I will not speak about other clubs. It is done, I am a Liverpool player. I had already decided.“
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This is great news. Just the tonic
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Mendes eh? Seems we never get his players signed one and linked with Neves. Surely wont get both but that pipeline is now open..Comment
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The icing on the cake is that he'll miss the World Cup along with Keita, Milner, Lallana (likely), VVD, Lovren, Robertson, Wilson, Grujic, Solanke and Brewster.
Plenty to work with there!Was muß, das muß.Comment
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[ame]https://twitter.com/GFFN/status/1001234481167159297[/ame]Are we winning?Comment
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Having a bevvy on the plane while wearing the shirt
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That highlights clip makes him seem like a Viera type midfielder. Would be great if he were at that level.It's easy to distract fat people. It's a piece of cake.Comment
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His wife is ace
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Liverpool move quickly to secure £40m Fabinho transfer from Monaco
Paul Joyce, Northern Football Correspondent
May 29 2018, 12:01am,
The Times
Liverpool have made Fabinho their first summer signing after sealing a deal worth an initial £39.3 million with Monaco for the defensive midfielder.
Discussions were concluded on a move for the Brazil player as Anfield officials wasted little time kick-starting their recruitment plans after the Champions League final defeat by Real Madrid on Saturday.
Liverpool will lose Emre Can to Juventus after the Germany midfielder rejected offers of a new contract, and Fabinho was subsequently earmarked as the main target to strengthen that area and add competition for the role as a No 6.
Sources in France indicate that the deal could rise by another £4.3 million in bonuses, and a five-year contract has been prepared for the player. Fabinho’s agent, Jorge Mendes, travelled to Merseyside with the player to complete the deal.
Jürgen Klopp secured a deal for the highly rated 24-year-old in what is shaping to be a significant strengthening of his midfield. A £52 million deal for Naby Keïta, from RB Leipzig, was agreed last summer and will become official on July 1. Nabil Fekir, the Lyons forward, and Alisson, the Roma goalkeeper, are also primary targets for the Liverpool manager.
Fabinho, who can also play at right back, has been at Monaco for five years, having initially joined on loan, and boasts a good appearance record for the French club.
Jorginho, the Napoli midfielder, had also been under consideration after his eye-catching performances for the Serie A club, but Liverpool expect him to join the Premier League champions Manchester City instead.
Klopp’s move is not a reaction to Saturday’s defeat in Kiev, where Liverpool lost 3-1 to Real, but big investment in his squad was always planned as the club seek to build on the progress he has overseen.
Real’s midfield, marshalled by Luka Modric, Casemiro and Toni Kroos, dominated after the enforced substitution of Mohamed Salah allowed the Spaniards to push higher up, and Liverpool need more strength in that area of the pitch.
Liverpool see Keïta, the highly regarded Guinea international, as an attacking midfielder next season, while Fabinho would join captain Jordan Henderson as another option for Klopp at the hub of the midfield.
Klopp had shown interest in Fabinho last summer, but now Liverpool have landed their first arrival of what is likely to be another busy transfer window for the Merseyside club.
Fekir, the French international, would cost about £60 million, while Alisson is valued at more than that by Roma, who do not want to sell him, especially to Liverpool after their purchase of Salah for £36.9 million last summer. There has been a longstanding interest in the Brazil goalkeeper, which has now been heightened by Loris Karius’s mistakes in the Champions League final.
Salah will travel to Spain tomorrow for treatment on the shoulder injury he suffered against Real. The Egyptian football federation said that he was in “high spirits” and “determined” to play at the World Cup.
Meanwhile, Adam Lallana will join up with England early, after the Champions League final, as he looks to boost his fitness.
Lallana is one of the players Gareth Southgate has put on standby for the World Cup in Russia, and he will meet up with the group tomorrow night with a view to training on Thursday.
The midfielder played 60 minutes of Liverpool’s loss to Real, the longest he has featured for the club since he played the full 90 minutes in the goalless draw with Porto on March 6.
Lallana’s fitness was compromised by a ruptured thigh and a hamstring injury, and he has turned down the chance to have a week off after the end of the season.
Southgate has a strong relationship with Lallana and has indicated that he would turn to him if one of the attack-minded players in his 23-man squad for the World Cup suffers an injury.
His Liverpool team-mates Henderson and the uncapped Trent Alexander-Arnold do not need to report for England duty until Saturday’s game with Nigeria at Wembley. England face Costa Rica at Elland Road the following Thursday in their second warm-up game for the World Cup.
Liverpool could add to their medical department by recruiting Philipp Jacobsen, who works for the rehabilitation department at Qatar’s sports medicine hospital, Aspetar. Jacobsen worked with Lallana when he went to the Middle East as part of his rehabilitation.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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It also seems that he does speak/understand some basic English which is pretty helpful.Comment
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Is he quick enough though....Comment
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