Darwin Núñez | Liverpool player | Fighter

Your opinion from watching him is the hill I'm willing to die on.

Liverpool bought Mane after he had a great game against them with Southampton, so it looks like they tried to repeat the trick after Nunez's performance against them last season but they may just have got swindled.
They weren’t the only club chasing him. We were after him also were we not?
 
They say that good players always seem to have time on the ball. He's the opposite, always looks kind of rushed and frantic.
 
They say that good players always seem to have time on the ball. He's the opposite, always looks kind of rushed and frantic.

He always did. Even in his good season he was over-performing to a ridiculous and unsustainable degree. Paying 100m for someone after one season like that in a poor league was a major gamble. I'm delighted we didn't end up buying him.
 
Have to say I didn't like the look of him at all when I first saw his highlight vids. Looked like he couldn't be on the path to either someone like Lukaku, or at an absolute peak of Haaland. I feel like he'll be decent enough, but he was never worth anything close to 100m, he's far too limited for that. He's a hard working poacher, who if you ask him to do something else, will let you down. It never really made sense for Liverpool other than as a sub... But they paid 100m.

Glad we passed on him. We need far more ability from our CF. Hold up play, link up play... Those are the 2 most important qualities for us IMO.
 
What an extremely weird comparison. They are nothing alike and the reasons behind them struggling are different. Thiago was a proven world-class player who had to adapt his playing style to a more dynamic and physical nature of Premier League and Klopp's demands. His talent and, most importantly, his technique, vision, passing, shooting, attitude etc. was never in question — fitness was a little bit.

Núñez main issues are his technical limitations — it's not something that a grown professional player can drastically improve. Adaptation comes from better understanding your teammates on and off-the-ball movement — and this is something that Núñez doesn't have any issues with, his runs are brilliant. Him adapting to Premier League won't make his first touch of shooting better.

Yeah. Nunez is bad technically, but I think if Klopp can sort out the midfield and let Nunez just play up top without being involved in the build up it could still work out decently.

He should have gone to Atletico and Joao Felix to Liverpool. Think both would be doing better in those drastically different setups.
 
If you look at the list of top scorers in the Portuguese league, it's clear how little that means. The last time one of them went on to become a world class player was... Eusebio in the 1960s? That league isn't much better than the Scottish PL. While Nunez did have a fairly good run in the CL, that's such a small sample size of games that it's similarly meaningless. Every year, some relatively unknown player impresses for a limited period of time before dropping back into obscurity. To pay that kind of money for a player who has had a single good season in a B-list league is kind of ridiculous. Even United should be a bit embarrassed to have been interested, but we didn't seem about to pay that sort of mental fee for him, so that's a relief.

When you watch him play, it's pretty clear that he just isn't that good. He doesn't look like an amazing talent that just has to adjust to a new league. It's usually easy to see when that's the case, and it isn't the case with him. He'll get some goals here and there, he's not downright terrible, but he doesn't show any signs of greater potential. He honestly reminds me a lot of Andy Carroll, and I don't mean that in a facetious way. He looks like an alright striker who can score some goals if he's the focal point of a team, but he isn't good enough to be the focal point of a team that actually aspires to win trophies in a top league.
 
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If you look at the list of top scorers in the Portuguese league, it's clear how little that means. The last time one of them went on to become a world class player was... Eusebio in the 1960s? That league isn't much better than the Scottish PL. While Nunez did have a fairly good run in the CL, that's such a small sample size of games that it's similarly meaningless. Every year, some relatively unknown player impresses for a limited period of time before dropping back into obscurity. To pay that kind of money for a player who has had a single good season in a B-list league is kind of ridiculous. Even United should be a bit embarrassed to have been interested, but we didn't seem about to pay that sort of mental fee for him, so that's a relief.

When you watch him play, it's pretty clear that he just isn't that good. He doesn't look like an amazing talent that just has to adjust to a new league. It's usually easy to see when that's the case, and it isn't the case with him. He'll get some goals here and there, he's not downright terrible, but he doesn't show any signs of greater potential. He honestly reminds me a lot of Andy Carroll, and I don't mean that in a facetious way. He looks like an alright striker who can score some goals if he's the focal point of a team, but he isn't good enough to be the focal point of a team that actually aspires to win trophies in a top league.

All teams get it wrong at one point or another. We’ve done the exact same thing with a certain player called Anthony.
 
All teams get it wrong at one point or another. We’ve done the exact same thing with a certain player called Anthony.

Martial? We overpaid for him, but he was great talent at that time.
 
All teams get it wrong at one point or another. We’ve done the exact same thing with a certain player called Anthony.

Nunez deal at 80m seemed a little weird for his level of ability. Then we went ahead and purchased Casemiro for 70m and Antony for 85. The deal looks perfectly normal now tbh.
 
Martial? We overpaid for him, but he was great talent at that time.
I was talking about the other one but was Martial a great talent? He was a good youth prospect but he hardly played for Monaco same with Amad. Barely kicked a ball for Atalanta.
 
All teams get it wrong at one point or another. We’ve done the exact same thing with a certain player called Anthony.
Martial? We overpaid for him, but he was great talent at that time.

Nunez deal at 80m seemed a little weird for his level of ability. Then we went ahead and purchased Casemiro for 70m and Antony for 85. The deal looks perfectly normal now tbh.

There are plenty of players that were probably overpayments; Martial, Antony, Sancho, Havertz, Grealish etc

The difference is that these guys are clearly good players. Whether they were worth what was paid is questionable but none of them struggle with the basics.

Nunez genuinely wouldn't stand out as a professional footballer in a local 5 a side team. He literally cannot control a football, can't pass, has no hold up play and his finishing is erratic. He is quick and makes decent runs in behind but in a 5 a side environment, there is no space to run into behind so half decent bricklayers and plumbers with a first touch would outshine him. Not even joking.
 
I was talking about the other one but was Martial a great talent? He was a good youth prospect but he hardly played for Monaco same with Amad. Barely kicked a ball for Atalanta.

He has played 70 times (acc. to Transfermarkt) for Monaco before joining United. He has also won Golden boy award in 2015, in the year he joined United.

The other Anthony in our squad is a youth product, or am I wrong?

Neither of them are similar to Nunez.
 
Are Man Utd fans the biggest weirdos on fan forums?

Your avg Joe treats football with the tribal spirit that makes it special - defend own players, take the piss out of rival clubs and players.

Utd fans - enter a thread about a rival player who's been utterly wank and defend him by shitting on your own player.
 
Are Man Utd fans the biggest weirdos on fan forums?

Your avg Joe treats football with the tribal spirit that makes it special - defend own players, take the piss out of rival clubs and players.

Utd fans - enter a thread about a rival player who's been utterly wank and defend him by shitting on your own player.

To top it off, making a point about a player that played less than 5 games..
 
Are Man Utd fans the biggest weirdos on fan forums?

Your avg Joe treats football with the tribal spirit that makes it special - defend own players, take the piss out of rival clubs and players.

Utd fans - enter a thread about a rival player who's been utterly wank and defend him by shitting on your own player.
:lol:

Especially considering that Liverpool have been good in the market recently, and this is their first big-money dud in a long while. It's our solemn duty to pile on.
 
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Are Man Utd fans the biggest weirdos on fan forums?

Your avg Joe treats football with the tribal spirit that makes it special - defend own players, take the piss out of rival clubs and players.

Utd fans - enter a thread about a rival player who's been utterly wank and defend him by shitting on your own player.
There's a lot of closet City and Liverpool fans on this forum, I'm utterly convinced.
 
Nunez deal at 80m seemed a little weird for his level of ability. Then we went ahead and purchased Casemiro for 70m and Antony for 85. The deal looks perfectly normal now tbh.

Nunez was £85m himself and probably the reason the market was inflated this summer.

Casemiro was £60m with add ons.
 
He's also a quintuple Champions League winner and a terrible point of comparison, whether or not he succeeds at Utd.

Oh agreed. Just wasn’t sure why the poster added 10m to his fee and took 5m from Nunez.

I usually wouldn’t be pedantic but when the point of the post is the numbers then it’s kind of important.
 
I don’t know which sport do you watch. He’s better than all of them. Peak Cavani will be his minimum ceiling.

Can’t believe I missed posts like these :lol: