Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is looking forward to working with new signing Fabio Carvalho.
Carvalho moved from Championship winners Fulham for a fee that could reach around £7.5m.
Klopp told the club’s website: “Fabio, wow! What a season he played with Fulham. Getting promoted [with a] football-playing [style], properly football-playing, is not easy.
“So, (Fulham boss) Marco Silva obviously did an incredible job there, but a big part of that was absolutely Fabio. And Harry Wilson obviously, our former [player], and Neco Williams of course.”
The Reds boss also talked up the number of positions the Portugal Under-21 international is able to operate in as supporters get set for a glimpse of Carvalho next week.
“When we watched him it was a pure joy to watch him, absolutely,” Klopp said. “He can play so many different positions for us, the way we play. At the minute he’s not really set on one position – it’s the wing, it’s the eight, it’s the 10, it’s the false nine if he grows a few more muscles.
“It’s a short-term and a long-term project; he can start tomorrow and he needs to adapt, you can see that a little bit, but when he has the ball that’s proper quality. I’m over the moon that he’s here. Fantastic prospect.”
“The quality is the first thing and then the age comes in,” Klopp said of his two teenage signings. “Because if you have quality and you are 32 I’m very interested, to be honest. But quality and being 18 or 19, playing already an awful lot of games, having a real impact in their team performance for their former clubs, it’s rare. And both had that.”
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