Brentford have signed Fabio Carvalho from Liverpool in a switch value as much as £27.5m.
The deal for the 21-year-old attacking midfielder is value an preliminary £22.5m, with an additional £5m in add-ons.
Liverpool have a 17.5 per cent sell-on clause as a part of the bundle.
Carvalho, who additionally had curiosity from Southampton and Leicester, has signed a five-year deal, with Brentford holding the choice of an additional yr.
“Fabio is a player with a lot of qualities,” Brentford boss Thomas Frank mentioned on the membership’s official web site. “He can play in the entire entrance three or 4 positions in a 4-3-3 or a 4-2-3-1. His greatest place might be as a No 10 or coming in from the left.
“Offensively, he has great abilities on the ball: he can go past players, slide a pass, create chances and get on the end of chances. He’s a type of player that we don’t have many of in the squad so he will add that something extra for us.”
Carvalho joined Liverpool for £5m in 2022 after breaking by way of as certainly one of Fulham’s most fun youth graduates.
He scored 12 objectives in 44 appearances for the west London aspect, most of which had been within the Championship throughout their promotion marketing campaign.
Fulham secured a 20 per cent sell-on clause as a part of that switch, which shall be payable from the proceeds of the revenue of Carvalho’s transfer to Brentford.
Carvalho performed 21 instances for Liverpool, scoring three objectives.
He impressed on mortgage at Hull throughout the second half of final season – scoring 9 objectives in 20 Championship video games – following a spell at RB Leipzig earlier within the marketing campaign.
Brentford begin the 2024/25 Premier League marketing campaign towards Crystal Palace on Tremendous Sunday, stay on Sky Sports activities.
