Everton have just asked Liverpool if 21-year-old player can leave and join them

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Everton have made a cheeky attempt to make a January signing from Liverpool.

The Toffees have entered the New Year in poor form. Despite a recent resurgence, Sean Dyche’s team have now lost three Premier League games on the bounce.

Owing to their 10-point deduction, that leaves them one place and one point above the drop zone. As a result, they look set to try and strengthen during the winter window. And according to journalist Rudy Galetti on X, one of their targets wears Liverpool red.

“Liverpool will let Fabio Carvalho go on loan also in this second part of the season after his return from RB Leipzig,” reports the Italian journalist.

“Some English clubs – Everton, Wolves and Leicester among others – asked info about him: the Portuguese, together with LFC, will take a decision soon.”

Everton ask Liverpool about Carvalho

On first glance, the answer from Liverpool here would surely be an easy ‘no’. No player has crossed the Merseyside divide since Abel Xavier joined the Reds from the Blues back in 2002.

But in reality, why shouldn’t Liverpool look to offer Everton an olive branch with Carvalho.

At the end of the day, they should be looking out for what’s best for the player and nothing else. It’s true that he has other options, but perhaps Everton would actually make a lot of sense.

The Toffees are struggling in terms of league position, but before their three-game losing streak they were actually playing well and picking up points under Dyche.

Coming into a positive atmosphere like the one the former Burnley manager has fostered at Goodison would be no bad thing for Carvalho.

What may help him the most though, is the ability to stay local and settle further into the area.

Having spent just one year at Liverpool following his £8m move from Fulham, perhaps Fabio isn’t yet fully acclimatised to the city. Moving away to RB Leipzig won’t have helped that, and another loan further afield may only alienate him further.

What is more, staying close by would allow Carvalho to stay in close contact with his parent club. Liverpool reportedly still see Fabio as being part of their future. So, having him close by to check in on would be no bad thing.

Call us crazy, but we’d be really interested to see this happen. Surely though, it won’t.