{"id":625383,"date":"2023-07-21T09:47:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=625383"},"modified":"2023-07-21T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:47:37","slug":"liverpool-close-to-selling-fabinho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/21\/liverpool-close-to-selling-fabinho\/","title":{"rendered":"After Henderson: Liverpool Finalizing Imminent Exit for \u2018Outstanding\u2019 Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are continuing to work on the departure of midfielder Fabinho to Saudi Pro League side Al Ittihad, claims <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1681915088490598407?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. This is part of the major change-up to their midfield lineup from the previous season.<\/p>\n<h2>Liverpool Finalizing Fabinho Departure<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Liverpool will complete Jordan Henderson deal with Al Ettifaq soon and keep working on Fabinho&#39;s exit &#8211; with Brazilian midfielder expected to join Al Ittihad soon \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>Fabinho already agreed terms, club remain in contact discussing key details of the proposal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TwojQEc8vp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/TwojQEc8vp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1681915088490598407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Fabinho Expected to Join Al Ittihad Soon<\/h3>\n<p>The Reds have <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4688062\/2023\/07\/19\/jordan-henderson-saudi-arabia-liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> agreed a deal in principle to sell captain Jordan Henderson to Al Ettifaq in the summer and it appears that he will not be the only player to get approval for a move to the Saudi league.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/11\/liverpool-interest-in-levi-colwill-confirmed\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool Interested in Signing Chelsea Defender Levi Colwill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Romano claims that Fabinho is expected to join the Saudi Pro League side soon as the two clubs work hard to finalize an agreement. The Brazilian has already agreed terms with the Gulf club, but the Merseyside club have not fully agreed on a deal yet.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ettifaq <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/66210831\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> made a \u00a340 million offer to sign the 29-year-old and Liverpool are in contact with them to discuss the key final details of the offer before a deal can be fully agreed. But at this point, it appears that the Brazil international is bound to move to Saudi Arabia, even though he will not be joining the same team as his fellow teammate Henderson.<\/p>\n<h3>Liverpool\u2019s Plans for Midfield Reshape<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The BEST Strikers in Premier League History - Tier List\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V1kus9oZncs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Reds have already made major additions to their squad in the form of Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai to improve their midfield line, but there could be more additions still to come. It has been reported that Jurgen Klopp is planning to sign at least another midfielder to improve his squad depth going forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/11\/liverpool-interest-in-levi-colwill-confirmed\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool\u2019s Links With Eduardo Camavinga Debunked<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1675597047288803330?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> interested in Southampton midfielder Romeo Lavia as a possible replacement for the two departing midfielders. He could be roped in as a direct replacement for Fabinho, who was hailed as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c8zeyd0r118o\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;outstanding&#8217;<\/a> by Klopp after starring in Liverpool&#8217;s win over Arsenal in the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup in the 2021\/22 campaign. The Brazilian midfielder has won all major trophies with the Merseyside club and made 219 appearances for them, but it appears that he might be nearing the end of his journey at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_624319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-624319\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-624319 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/Anfield-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a stand in Anfield\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/Anfield-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/Anfield-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/Anfield-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/Anfield.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-624319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Anfield by Ruaraidh Gillies from https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ruaraidhg\/29676137824\/ CC by SA-2: https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q19068220<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are continuing to work on the departure of midfielder Fabinho to Saudi Pro League side Al Ittihad, claims Fabrizio Romano. This is part of the major change-up to their midfield lineup from the previous season. Liverpool Finalizing Fabinho Departure Liverpool will complete Jordan Henderson deal with Al Ettifaq soon and keep working on Fabinho&#39;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":624319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,18,7188],"tags":[1199,7298],"class_list":["post-625383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-liverpool","category-manchester-united","category-rumours","tag-fabinho","tag-liverpool-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}