Plan should be in place first. And Plan B should usually not be exorbitant.
Darwin Núñez / signs for Liverpool
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Didn't he say he was ready to go to PSG? Or something like that he is from Paris.
The reviews I have seen make him out as a donkey.
Some of those will do my head in. Is it too much to expect someone as reliable as Robin Van Persie was, in terms of both build up play and finishing?
That video is fairly astounding for 1 season, I genuinely don't think Lukaku had that many bad touches in a season, and he drove us mad.
Lukaku has more bad touches than that in a single match
This is such a dumb argument. Ruud used to miss loads of chances, Van Persie had some excellent bloopers too, Rooney would go through runs of games where his touch was poor, totally useless for us they were eh?
Lukaku has more bad touches than that in a single match
Lukaku barely touches the ball at all tbf the soft twat.
Those lowlights are definitely on a par with Lukaku and Welbeck. Scary bad touch.
Yep that touch is simply not gonna work in the PL. He will be a very big risk at that price point, is he even the type of striker we need in our expected system?
Quite underwhelming.
Welbeck had a lovely touch on him. His problem was finishing, and fitness.
Bayern, Liverpool, and Ten Hag want him, but some of the Caf don't and some prefer Richarlison.
Who says they all want him? The ever so trustworthy Portuguese press?
google is your friend.
So the Portuguese press then, cheers.
Who cares who wants him? Clubs sign duds all the time.
Starts tonight against USA. Will see how he performs.
Found this on Twitter… some stats compared to Haaland (presumably as Haaland is the no.1 and comparisons to him gives some perspective). Just posting for info….
Doesn't matter, people have already made their minds up on him.
Yes the youtube video makes him look bad but across a full season it's really not that much.
It seems it's his only real weakness so i'm more than happy to put up with that if he's banging goals regularly.
He’s had a couple of half chances in the first 10 minutes tonight
Paul Joyce who’s tier 1 for Liverpool has confirmed they’re interested in signing him so I’ve done a u-turn on my opinion of him. Liverpool’s scouting doesn’t miss.
Meh, not been impressed at all tonight. Completely anonymous against the second string neckline for the US.
Naby Keita would like to have a word.
To counter balance the 2min video of his bad touches...
There's enough in there to tell me he'd make it in the PL, whether he can become a proper top class striker is the real question. But he scores a lot of headers and uses his body very well imo. He scores messy goals too, which personally I think is a good thing, as a top striker should be able to score pretty and messy goals imo.
There's enough in there to tell me he'd make it in the PL, whether he can become a proper top class striker is the real question. But he scores a lot of headers and uses his body very well imo. He scores messy goals too, which personally I think is a good thing, as a top striker should be able to score pretty and messy goals imo.
They sign duds like everyone else but they’ve never spent decent money on an attacker who didn’t work out under Klopp. Salah, Mane, Jota and Diaz is 4/4.
Well everything comes to an end eventually , so let's see.
Also minamino didn't really hit the ground running either.
He was a 7m punt, I’m talking about players they go big on. Nunez would cost 60 odd million.
Fair enough, however him suiting klopp's play style doesn't necessarily mean he'll do the same for ten hag.
Anyway I'm in the fence with this kid , midfield is a bigger priority in my opinion as well so wouldn't particularly mind if if we lost this kid in expense for improving our spine.
I don't think people are looking at our attack with their eyes open.
We'll be down to 3 senior attacking players at the start of the season - Sancho, Ronaldo and Rashford. That's assuming Martial will leave who's a waste of space anyway. We'll end up relying on a bunch of kids like Elanga, Amad, Pellistri. And it's not just a depth issue, I mean, Sancho hasn't hit the ground running, Ronaldo's 38 and Rashford didn't look interested all season.
A team who competes in all competitions should really be aiming to have 2 senior players per position, in an ideal world we should have 6 options for the 3 attacking positions and youth options on top of that. The idea that we should just forget about our attack is absurd to me. We're lacking in both depth and quality.
Considering Van Persie is only below Benzema and Lewandowski on the striker level, I would say it is too much to expect.
Completely agree. I did a thread on why attack should be our priority this window and got shot down, people are in for a nasty shock next season.
Obviously we need an attacker, but the only reason why I can think that Ten Hag is fine spending so much of the budget on Nunez is that he thinks we won't be able to force teams defensive line deep enough for us to actually pass the ball in defence and midfield with the current crop of players unless teams are terrified of someone like Nunez running behind them and getting into the channels and running at them.
0 goals in his last 7 international games. Overall 2 goals in 11 games for Uruguay. Is he really the forward we should put our big money on, when we are on limited budget?
More specifically Joyce said they were interested in him but will not pursue him at any cost. And that search for value is part of what makes their transfer recruitment so efficient. They've only spent over 50m three times and of those three players two are arguably the best in the world in their positions.
Whether they would deem Nunez worthy of the sort of 60m fee you quote remains to be seen. Price matters, a lot.
Dippers' DOF Michael Edwards went to Real Madrid so I'm hoping they move for duds like Pulisic and Núñez on a regular basis now.
I’m not sure he’s the type of player we need but if ten hag wants him and believes he can work in his system then by all means they should get him.
He's not very good and it would be worrying if we blew most of our budget on him.
I've been saying it for a while. Many on here scoff at Pellistri's performances for the NT ("only Venezuela/Peru/Mexico") but Nuñez looks bang average in the same team against the same oppo.
Last move of the game, a counter, should be his cup of tee, one on one with the keeper... and makes a hospital pass through two defenders and behind Cavani. Lack of composure, idiotic decision-making, terrible execution, all in one move. Good thing they are just friendlies.
Avoid at all costs.
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