Darwin Nunez

[Insidious]

Stats stats stats

when you get that many chances, even you would take some sid.

Worrying people saying he's better on the left, that's where Diaz lives..... we need a outright striker who's clinical

They have their merit - I know they aren't everything.

He is managing roughly 1-in-3 in the Premier League - think it's 9 League goals in 29 appearances, plenty of those not being starts and plenty being when we looked rancid in the middle. If he can sneak his way up to 15 or so League goals next season (he'd only be 24-years old, with many strikers at their best at the 27-31 age range) in what will hopefully be a more cohesive side with him being a touch more settled then I think he can do well for us.

[jozza800]

This is what Darwin will never be. BUT boy is he a good player for him to study,



A total phenomenon - by a distance our most lethal forward - and that’s across the entire history of this club - and the only player on the planet capable of being the first name on the Barca team sheet… on Messi’s watch.

As much as love Bobby a forward line of Mane - Suarez - Salah would have been phenomenal. We'd definitely have at least one more League title and a European Cup. Minimum.

[Insidious]

This is what Darwin will never be. BUT boy is he a good player for him to study,

Suarez had absolutely God-tier ability with his feet, which, much as I love Darwin, he'll never have.

Torres would probably be a better study for him - with Suarez's never-say-die spirit sprinkled on! Charrua Garrua!

[Steveo]

Ah yes, El Niño….

[ianlfc]

Apparently he's taking the number 9 for next season, he's not even close to previous number 9's but he's young and I'll give him the benefit of a in different first season. But he's big boots to fill following Bobby.

[Nineteenx]

Ah yes, El Niño….

If you take all the best tricks and finishes of Torres, David Villa and Benzema and throw in Messi's art of disguise,and instantly moving the ball to his other foot where the defender couldn't get to it, you get Suarez

[Nineteenx]

Nunez was always a doer upper, he wasn't helped in his first season by our trashing our right side and the failed designated playmaker debacle meaning Trent saw not just far less of the ball, but about 90% less of it in the positions he'd always created so consistently for Mane, Robbo and Mo or our use of him to be fair to the lad

Hopefully he's now learned English and the 'coaching' he and others need to realise his potential will belatedly take place

I think if he'd come into our 21-22 ser up, he'd be a lot further along already, not having that supply and playmaking from numerous positions on our right, Mane, Robbo, Diaz and Jota always enjoyed is actually a big deal

[Insidious]

Think it was 9 goals and 3 assists in 29 League matches last season.

4 goals in 8 Champion's League games.

Hopefully he can get 4-6 Europa League goals and maybe 12 goals, and 3-5 assists in the Premier League.

I still feel he has enormous potential and still has time on his hands. Would expect him to be at the peak of his powers in the 26-29 sort of age range. Hope he's still here at that age and not sold.

[ianlfc]

Nunez was always a doer upper, he wasn't helped in his first season by our trashing our right side and the failed designated playmaker debacle meaning Trent saw not just far less of the ball, but about 90% less of it in the positions he'd always created so consistently for Mane, Robbo and Mo or our use of him to be fair to the lad

Hopefully he's now learned English and the 'coaching' he and others need to realise his potential will belatedly take place

I think if he'd come into our 21-22 ser up, he'd be a lot further along already, not having that supply and playmaking from numerous positions on our right, Mane, Robbo, Diaz and Jota always enjoyed is actually a big deal

He didn't help himself by getting sent off against Palace at Anfield.

[Nineteenx]

He didn't help himself by getting sent off against Palace at Anfield.

No he did not help himself, always the danger of that coming to the Prem and LFC especially, given we play to a different set of rules to all other clubs and what is a foul on their players apparently isn't on ours too often

I always maintained he needed work, to be fair he was always a 35-40m forward, his price got bumped so high because the filthy and others wanted to sign him for his potential also, he absolutely wasn't helped by the things mentioned, he didn't benefit from the same steady supply of balls to release him in behind from LFWD or to release Robbo or Tsimi in space of our left to be bale to release him in space, or the trademark crosses from Trent for him to meet making outside in runs

Hopefully the necessary coaching will be done, because he can be a phenomenal player for us, it does require a lot of work and orchestrated movement with him individually and other players, which I am honestly not sure Jurgen has in his locker, we have bought players whose way of playing fitted our 433 system and way of playing, who would have needed very little coaching and during our evolution of steadily getting the right players over a few seasons, the extra they brought to the roles helped other players develop

The one thing I'll give Guardiola is he and his coaches and likely his analysis team clearly do a lot of work with their players to get them to do what they want for a system or a tweak, it's something we talk a lot about, but we never see any real evidence of