Fabinho believes Liverpool can still compete for 'everything' despite losing Sadio Mane to Bayern Munich earlier in the transfer window. The Reds have brought in Darwin Nunez to replace Mane and Fabinho is confident he can 'change' the team.
Nunez is currently taking English lessons and Thiago Alcantara has been spotted translating for the Spanish-speaker in Liverpool training. Fabinho has highlighted how important a role Roberto Firmino and Alberto Moreno played when helping him settle in after making the switch from Monaco in the summer of 2018.
Fabinho told The Athletic : “Darwin may need a bit of time to adapt, let’s see, but a player like him can really change a team. He’s a proper number nine. He’s a goal-scorer. He scored in both games against us in the Champions League. We know how good he is.
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“Even though we lost Sadio, I still believe that we can fight for everything. The team is still really strong. For a long time it was always Sadio on the left side. Luis [Diaz] will become increasingly important.
"Whenever we sign a new player I always try to help him as much as possible. Like Darwin now, his English isn’t very good, so I’m always trying to help him in training by explaining some situations to him. When I first came to Liverpool, Firmino and [Alberto] Moreno were really important for me. They helped me to settle in. I try to support new players now in the same way as those boys supported me."
The Reds won two trophies last season but their campaign ended in relative disappointment after being pipped to the Premier League by Manchester City and then losing the Champions League final to Real Madrid.
After going down 1-0 to Madrid the previous day, Fabinho was reluctant to get on the team coach for the well-deserved parade through the streets of Liverpool, but he was so glad he did.
"After the final, I didn’t want to do the bus parade," said the Brazil international. "I was hurt from losing. But when we came back to Liverpool and started on the parade the mood changed so much. I came to realise that it was the best thing that could have happened to us. It helped us all appreciate that despite the disappointment we had still made a lot of people happy with the season we had played.”
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