Since Fabinho never actually played for Rio despite being a Rio player for three seasons, Rio Ave FC are earning 4 million Euros from his transfer to Liverpool , a great bit of business by the club. Fabinho was loaned out several times before officially being bought by Monaca in 2015 for a fee in the region of £5.4 million. He never made his debut for the Portuguese side.
Liverpool had to pay almost £43 million for the Brazilian holding midfielder, and fend off a late bid from Arsenal.