How the 17 Liverpool loan players are faring as Fabio Carvalho struggles and Tyler Morton shines
Fabio Carvalho is currently struggling to put his Liverpool problems of last season behind him while he spends the current campaign on loan at RB Leipzig.
The Portugal Under-21 international's primary frustration in the forgettable 2022-23 campaign at Anfield - besides hardly playing after January - was that there was no place for his favoured attacking midfield role in Jurgen Klopp's system, and so to get back on track he decided to sign for Leipzig for the season.
But despite lifting the DFL-Supercup, this move has not gone to plan. In the Bundesliga he has only started one match for Marco Rose's side - a 1-0 win against Borussia Monchengladbach on September 23 - while making a further five substitute appearances.
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Carvalho was also part of the Leipzig team that failed to make it over the second hurdle in the DFB-Pokal - a competition the club have won the last two seasons - after falling to a 1-0 defeat to Wolfsburg.
What's more, Carvalho still falls short of his desire to be utilised as an attacking midfielder, as he has so far only been trusted as a winger on either flank.
"He is a challenger; this is what his position was (always going to be)," Leipzig journalist Guido Schafer, who was a teammate of Reds boss Klopp's at Mainz, recently told our sister website Liverpool.com. "And he fights (for a place in the team) against very good players in his position: Xavi Simons, Emil Forsberg, Christoph Baumgartner and Dani Olmo.
"He was in the team from the beginning when they won 1-0 in Gladbach and I wrote an article about Carvalho - it was a good
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