After making an impression on RB Leipzig’s head coach Marco Rose during the international break, Fabio Carvalho is anticipated to be given the chance to compete for a spot in the first squad.
Carvalho, 21, moved from Fulham to Liverpool last summer but failed to find consistent playing time. This season, the talented winger was given the all-ahead to go out on loan and connected with Leipzig in June. The intention of the move was to give Carvalho more playing time, but so far this season, he has only logged 18 minutes of football.
However, it appears that Carvalho will play a bigger part once the domestic competition picks back up. This could provide his parent club the opportunity to monitor their talented young player in the hopes that he would establish himself at Anfield the following season.
Carvalho impressed Rose during one-on-one conversations over the international break, and the German newspaper BILD reports that he will take over for the injured Dani Olmo in the coming weeks. Ironically, Carvalho chose not to play for Portugal’s U21 team during the break and instead stayed in Germany.
Carvalho made it plain that he was not in regular communication with Klopp after deciding to leave his parent club for the season earlier this summer, even though negotiations with Rose appear to be paying off for him. Shortly after his transfer to Leipzig was official, Carvalho told German media: “I don’t really speak to him, to be frank. He didn’t really offer any guidance to me. I simply had to pick things up along the way, which is, in my opinion, better for maturing.
Carvalho was limited to just 13 Premier League games, including just four starts, despite playing a pivotal role for Fulham in their promotion campaign back in 2021–2022.
