“I prefer playing as a 10. Playing out wide, I can do a job there but it’s not my natural position,” Fabio Carvalho told the Liverpool Echo. “I’m not like Lucho Diaz. I can play there but I’m more of a number 10.
“That’s where I like playing, that’s where I enjoy playing. That’s kind of where I’m playing here [at Hull City]. I get a lot of freedom to drop in, to do what is expected of me and what I like doing.
“I get that freedom from the manager. That’s what I want and that’s all I need, which is the trust. Because if you don’t have the trust, you don’t play with confidence. If you don’t have confidence, it’s nothing.”
As Jurgen Klopp prefers a 4-3-3 formation, Carvalho was played out wide in his first season at Liverpool. Arne Slot, who is expected to succeed the German, sets out his Feyenoord side in a 4-2-3-1 shape: it means that there is a place for an attacking midfielder like Fabio.
At Hull, Carvalho has scored nine goals and provided two assists in 19 appearances so far.
