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Liverpool ‘set to confirm’ perfect transfer outcome as Jürgen Klopp will feel double benefit

Liverpool has a ‘full agreement’ for another transfer exit this summer and it will benefit Jürgen Klopp and the Reds in a variety of ways both short and long-term.

Fábio Carvalho, Kostas Tsimikas and Rhys Williams during a Liverpool training session. (Image: Photo by John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

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Fábio Carvalho looks set to become the next Liverpool star to make an exit this summer — but the Reds will only sanction a deal on their terms for a player who could still have a big part to play at Anfield in the long term.

Carvalho, still only 20, made 20 appearances for Liverpool at senior level during his debut season at the club having arrived from Fulham last summer, but they only totaled 638 minutes on the field and only just over half of those came in the Premier League.

Wanting more match action having been a regular for Fulham in the Championship the year before, Carvalho could soon join RB Leipzig on a season-long loan deal, with the Bundesliga side edging closer to a consensus with Liverpool.

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On Twitter, Fabrizio Romano reports that ‘negotiations are being finalized’ as the move ‘will be signed next week’, and that a ‘total agreement is confirmed’. While the ECHO reports that negotiations are ongoing, a loan exit seems likely.

Liverpool remains unprepared to allow anything other than a straight loan deal, with no option to buy inserted into the move and no chance of a permanent exit being sanctioned this summer. Leipzig saw a $13m (£10m/€12m) bid turned down earlier in the window, but a loan to Germany adds up for all parties.

RB Leipzig is a side that Liverpool has purchased off in the past, with this latest deal potentially having a double benefit. On the one hand, it strengthens the relationship between the two clubs, and on the other, it also means that Carvalho has signed for a team that plays a similar enough style to Liverpool.

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Carvalho can play for a team in the Champions League, operating at the top end of a league that is renowned for developing young talents. At the end of that loan, he can prove that he is a player that — were he hypothetically a permanent Leipzig man — Liverpool would be interested in making the next Ibrahima Konaté, Naby Keïta or Timo Werner.

By moving on loan to Leipzig, Liverpool can assess exactly what the player’s level is ahead of his return to Merseyside in 2024. By that point, he will either have shown enough to be a part of the Reds’ squad at that point, or his value will have increased. At the very least, what Liverpool will get from this move is higher offers than those that would have arrived in this window.

Liverpool.com says: Ultimately, this would be a win-win-win situation.

Leipzig gets to work with another up-and-coming young talent, Carvalho gets the minutes that he wanted which didn’t arrive in the second half of last season, and Liverpool either gets a player developed enough to become a long-term option from 2024, as is the hope, or a boost in the sums of money that might be involved in a future transfer. It’s a move that represents the best possible transfer agreement from Liverpool’s perspective.

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