The early Nunez we got seemed to be quite a player bar his finishing. He however lost that and his finishing didn’t improve.
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All the right tools, none of the right brains. Enjoy watching him as he is pure entertainment, but it’s a coin flip as to whether or not whatever he’s trying to do will actually come off, and we’re not at a level where the patience exists for someone to fail regularly before succeeding.
There was one assist he got that summed him up for me, as far as his time here. He was through 1-on-1, fluffed his chance, keeper passed out to a defender, Nunez closed him down and slide tackled from behind, won the ball, and then passed for someone else to score. The easy was beyond him, the absurd a piece of piss for him. A luxury in a title winning team, but not someone you can rely on. All encapsulated in small passage of play.
I don’t have a lot of the annoyance that many do with him as he can’t help being an instinct player in a team good enough to create consistent chances. He can still have a good career and I don’t at all begrudge him the opportunity. In 2010 he’d have been an absolute star here as his style of play would’ve suited us to a T. Instead he’s a man out of time in a team too clinical and efficient to put up with his mercurial impact. A reasonable bet to make, a shame it didn’t come off.
He looked even short of the entertaining factor at the end before Slot didn’t even bother with him he looked so poor.
He needs a fresh start and 50m is a decent return for a player who won’t ever make it at Liverpool.
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I see what your saying, but we don’t really play with a traditional #9 and haven’t for some time. You could argue he wasn’t effective from the wing either, which is true. I didn’t really watch him play at Benfica, but with Uruguay I believe he plays more centrally and he is seemingly effective in that setup. He needs to be able to run in behind.
I don’t think “traditional No. 9” is a correct description for Nunez. He has very good pace and movement but doesn’t attack the box often, and he’s not very good at holding up the ball or heading too.
But I get your points. Our system no longer focuses on him now, and his shooting has dropped massively this season. Slot has also said many times that he wants his No. 9 to act like a No. 10 on many occasions. Nunez clearly can’t do that.
He has incredible pace, yet is offside significantly more than your average player, so extremely frustrating.
As others have said, his composure is poor, which means his finishing per chance is extremely poor.
With all of that, you can never say he gives up, unlike a certain ex RB.
Never gives up? He stopped trying months before we won the league.
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He ended up with a shot conversion rate in his 3 years of just over 9% the much laughed at Rasmus is slightly better at 11%.
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Thats what annoyed me the most he would come on after 75 minutes and look more lethargic than those on from the start.
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Good luck to him, assuming this is confirmed. I think Napoli will be a good fit. I wanted more of a fee, but it probably needed the Saudis to come in for that. Darwin’s reputation is down after an iffy season, and he clearly doesn’t appear to be in Slot’s plans, so achieving a higher price was a tall order.
Best to get it finished and move on. I would imagine we will act quickly on a striker that Slot wants to work with. Ekitike is my best guess, and it might be the case that he has been biding his time, turning others down, and waiting for us.
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He doesn’t have all the tools and it’s not only about his finishing that is the issue.
The tools are overrated (I’ve heard this many times with some other players), there’s nothing special or damned about him either.
I honestly had given up on this lad after the Andersen red card. No brains
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It’s not even that much, apparently.
Napoli have made a £42m bid for Liverpool’s 26-year-old Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez. (Gianluca di Marzo)
If we took that much of a loss then we would look like pushovers. IMO, the fee needs to 50 million GBP plus bits and bobs.
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I would take that with a large sell on fee. He will thrive there and get a transfer a few years later.
The 50+5 is in euro
According to the sky mathematicians. A total of 47.5 (add one included) isn’t bad given his numbers here. 43.5 up front I believe
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Given that Gala seems willing now to pay 60+ mil for Osimhen, cheapo Charlie Napoli now has money to pay us the 47mil, which will be the 2nd highest fee they ever paid. It’s not a bad fee considering the difficulties Nunez had blending into the team plays. He has been largely a player with a good attitude, so I wish him the best.
Ultimately it’s how it is used to progress.
If the club think 47 million allows us to bring in someone new then that’s cool.
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The trouble is nobody is offering that money what do you do if Napoli walk away. There doesn’t seem to be any other intrest.
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It’s called cutting your losses.
Amortization values comes into picture.
At this point , if we are getting 47m GBP for Nunez. Take it and cut your loss. The alternative is a much less transfer fee if his contract continues to run down.
Maybe insert a sell on percentage to get some added funds if he does move on from Napoli to another club later.
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I don’t see this one happening, especially after Diogo. The striker position is the most difficult to fill at the moment and finding two in the current market is very risky if the club do decide to let him go.