LIVERPOOL , KOMPAS.com - Liverpool secara resmi membeli bek serbabisa AS Monaco, Fabinho . Hal itu diumumkan melalui situs web resmi mereka pada Senin (28/5/2018) atau Selasa dini hari WIB.
Bek asal Brasil ini akan resmi bergabung dengan Liverpool setelah melewati tes medis dan diikat dalam kontrak hingga 2023 bersama The Reds. Transfer ini efektif per 1 Juli 2018 ketika bursa musim panas dibuka.
Fabinho mengaku sangat senang bisa bergabung dengan klub raksasa seperti Liverpool. Dia mengaku proses pengambilan keputusannya pindah juga berlangsung cepat.
"Saya sangat gembira dengan langkah ini. Kepindahan ini adalah sesuatu yang selalu saya inginkan," ucap Fabinho.
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"Liverpool adalah klub raksasa dengan fasilitas luar biasa. Ketika ada klub sebesar ini datang menginginkan, saya tidak perlu berpikir lama untuk memilih bergabung," tutur pemain 24 tahun itu.
TWITTER.com/LFC Fabinho resmi bergabung dengan Liverpool pada Senin (28/5/2018) malam.
Pemain bernama lengkap Fabio Henrique Tavares itu mengaku akan mencoba menciptakan sejarah di Liverpool.
"Semoga pada level pribadi saya dapat memenangi gelar dengan klub ini. Saya akan mencoba untuk tumbuh, belajar, dan meningkatkan diri, serta menjadi bagian dari sejarah klub," kata Fabinho.
Situs web resmi Liverpool tak merinci nilai transfer Fabinho. Pemain kelahiran 23 Oktober 1993 ini diperkirakan didatangkan Liverpool dengan nilai transfer 45 juta pounds.
Fabinho memiliki kemampuan bermain di posisi saya, bek maupun gelandang. Namun, bersama Monaco, dia tampil apik ketika dipasang sebagai gelandang bertahan.
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- Kabar mengejutkan datang dari pemain serba bisa sekaligus kapten AS Monaco, Fabinho. Setelah sempat gencar disebut bakal hengkang ke Manchester United, kini ia diklaim malah merapat ke Liverpool.Sebelumnya, pada awal April lalu Fabinho sempat sudah hampir memutuskan untuk bergabung ke United di musim panas ini. Setan Merah memang sudah sejak lama memiliki hasrat memboyong pemain internasional Brasil itu ke Old Trafford.Namun kini seperti dilansir L'Equipe, Fabinho justru diyakini tak lama lagi akan menjadi milik rival United di Premier League, Liverpool.Kabarnya, kubu Liverpool harus mengeluarkan dana senilai 50 juta euro plus bonus 5 juta euro untuk mendatangkan Fabinho ke Anfield.
• Brazil midfielder set to replace Emre Can at Anfield • Mo Salah to travel to Spain for treatment on shoulder
Liverpool have confirmed the signing of the Brazil midfielder Fabinho from Monaco for £40m as a replacement for Emre Can as Jürgen Klopp steps up his summer recruitment drive.
Negotiations with the Ligue 1 side over a €45m (£40m) fee plus a potential €5m in add-ons have been ongoing for several days, with a statement from Liverpool on Monday night confirming the 24-year-old will move to Anfield on 1 July after he completed a medical at the club’s training ground.
“I am really excited about this move,” Fabinho told Liverpool’s website. “This is something that I always wanted – this is a giant of a team. The infrastructures of the club look exceptional. A football club of this size coming after my services: I didn’t have to think that much about coming over. I will try to create my own history at this football club. Hopefully, on a personal level, I’m able to win titles with this club.”
Manchester United had also been credited with an interest in the player, whose agent is Jorge Mendes, but are now expected to sign Fabinho’s international team-mate Fred from Shakhtar Donetsk instead.
The Germany international Can is expected to leave Anfield for Juventus after rejecting the offer of a new contract, with reports in Italy that he was due to complete a medical this week.
The signing of Fabinho, therefore, represents something of a coup for Liverpool, who have already secured the arrival of the Guinea midfielder Naby Keïta from RB Leipzig this summer and have held talks to sign France forward Nabil Fekir from Lyon. Having begun his career in Europe as a right back, the former Fluminense youth team product has been converted to a central midfielder in recent seasons and starred as Monaco won the French league title in 2016/17.
Meanwhile, Mohamed Salah will travel to Spain on Wednesday to undergo treatment on his shoulder injury, the Egyptian Football Federation has announced.
The Reds’ 44-goal top scorer was forced off midway through the first half of Saturday’s Champions League final defeat against Real Madrid due to the problem sustained in a tangle with Sergio Ramos.
Salah tweeted on Sunday that he remained “confident” of being available for Egypt’s World Cup campaign in Russia, and on Monday evening it was confirmed he will head to Spain.
