Topic: Darwin Núñez (Darwin Gabriel Núñez Ribeiro)

[Yorkykopite]

With due respect to the history of the League and FA Cup, they are now equivalent in prestige to glorified friendlies like the Nations League.

That's obviously not true. But if it were true can you explain the bit about "with due respect."

[M4tt]

With due respect to the history of the League and FA Cup, they are now equivalent in prestige to glorified friendlies like the Nations League.

Bastion Of Idiocy

[HenderSlav]

He’s not the player you’re describing though … he’s a lot more like Mane (as a 9) than a target man or traditional 9

Along with bad first touch & passing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfqm8cnKTus

[JackWard33]

This is the best thing I've read on Nunez
From MrDilkington on here - really good overview of his strengths, the risk factors and how he'll likely fit in

https://dilksmused.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-darwin-nunez?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=auto_share&s=w

[vetdoc24]

Haven't been looking at all the goal/fail compilations much because it is easy to make anybody look good or bad in a 4 minute video.

The best video I have seen is by Rabona tv on yt who discussed Darwin's strength and weaknesses in detail which he would know than most as a benefica supporter.

Video - https://youtu.be/oRY0yWBX7A8

EDIT: @Persephone have already shared the video (sorry I commented before reading the thread).

[Dim Glas]

Klopp won 2 Bundesliga titles on the trot with Lewandowski up front and really should have won the 2013 Champions League, so it's not like he's not done this before. He knows exactly what he wants to do, it's not a gamble, it's a plan.

Doing the wonderful Lucas Barrios a disservice there - that’s who was the main man upfront when he won the first title    Always the ‘forgotten’ striker in Kloppo’s teams.   

These strikers though, people see a big strong forwards and think that is ‘all’ they are.  When they are much more.

[Bastion Of Invincibility]

That's obviously not true. But if it were true can you explain the bit about "with due respect."

How many domestic cup trophies would you swap for a single League or Champions League win?

Prestige is calculated by money these days. To win the FA CUP nets nearly 5M versus the 90M for winning the champions league. By that calculus, you would need to win 18 FA Cups to earn the equivalent of a Champions League win.

[Yorkykopite]

How many domestic cup trophies would you swap for a single League or Champions League win?

Prestige is calculated by money these days. To win the FA CUP nets nearly 5M versus the 90M for winning the champions league. By that calculus, you would need to win 18 FA Cups to earn the equivalent of a Champions League win.

That's not what I asked.

But if what so you say is correct then you should be praying Liverpool get relegated this coming season so we can have a crack at the most "prestigious" 'trophy' in world football. The third place play-off winner in the Championship. Wouldn't that look great on our Champions' Wall?

You are of course the perfect customer for football in the hyper-capitalist age. Everything - including trophies - is about the bottom line. Prestige, honour, value - all measured in dollars and yen.

[Dim Glas]

How many domestic cup trophies would you swap for a single League or Champions League win?

Prestige is calculated by money these days. To win the FA CUP nets nearly 5M versus the 90M for winning the champions league. By that calculus, you would need to win 18 FA Cups to earn the equivalent of a Champions League win.

If you as a fan care more about how much it nets the team in prize money, then I don’t know what to tell you.

To call them 'glorified friendlies’ is the work of a twitter troll. Tell that to the 10’s of thousands who went to the parade to celebrate with the team, guessing you where not one of them.

Having won the CL and league with this group of players, it was special to see them win the domestic cups, and again, if you don’t get that, that’s something you need to reconcile with - cos you are missing out on some great days with this fantastic team.

[Ravishing Rick Dude]

How many domestic cup trophies would you swap for a single League or Champions League win?

Prestige is calculated by money these days. To win the FA CUP nets nearly 5M versus the 90M for winning the champions league. By that calculus, you would need to win 18 FA Cups to earn the equivalent of a Champions League win.

I don't know about you, but i REALLY wanted to win the FA Cup and to complete the set. Klopp completing the set before Guardiola and his billions, it's massive achievement. Trent being 23yr old and already completing the set is also massive achievement.

[Dubred]

How many domestic cup trophies would you swap for a single League or Champions League win?

Prestige is calculated by money these days. To win the FA CUP nets nearly 5M versus the 90M for winning the champions league. By that calculus, you would need to win 18 FA Cups to earn the equivalent of a Champions League win.

The modern fan.  Like we didn't know already football is fucked.

[Barneylfc∗]

How many domestic cup trophies would you swap for a single League or Champions League win?

Prestige is calculated by money these days. To win the FA CUP nets nearly 5M versus the 90M for winning the champions league. By that calculus, you would need to win 18 FA Cups to earn the equivalent of a Champions League win.

When we lost in Paris, were you happier than when we beat Chelsea in either cup final?

Offer me a guaranteed FA Cup win for the next 18 years or winning 1 Champions League win and 17 final losses over the same timeframe. I think I'll take the 18 trophy winning celebrations please. 

The money means fuck all if you are a supporter.

[rob1966]

How many domestic cup trophies would you swap for a single League or Champions League win?

Prestige is calculated by money these days. To win the FA CUP nets nearly 5M versus the 90M for winning the champions league. By that calculus, you would need to win 18 FA Cups to earn the equivalent of a Champions League win.

Fuck the money.

Of course you always want to win the League or CL, but I was made up that we won both domestic cups last season, this club exists to win things, so any shiny trophy needs to be cherished.

I don't know about you, but i REALLY wanted to win the FA Cup and to complete the set. Klopp completing the set before Guardiola and his billions, it's massive achievement. Trent being 23yr old and already completing the set is also massive achievement.

This is it, Klopp is the only Liverpool manager to have won these 4 trophies, massive achievement, as for Trent, he joins a short list, containing the like of Rushie, Kenny, Brucie, Hansen and Lawro who have won all them as players at Liverpool.

[amir87]

Talking about prize money when winning trophies is top tier bellend behaviour.

[afc tukrish]

Talking about prize money when winning trophies is top tier bellend behaviour.

Bastion of Bellendry? Bellendibility?

[Coolie High]

He will be a great signing, he has pace workrate can score from many different type of finishes, is tall and a physical presence plus has a hunger and tenacity for the game that many of the street type footballers from South America often do.

[PeterTheRed ...]

Along with bad first touch & passing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfqm8cnKTus

To be fair, De Bruyne is worse than Nunez ...

https://youtu.be/8Kx5eRQsHY8

[El Lobo]

Lads....Bastion of Invincibility posted six times between gloating when we lost against West Ham in November, and gloating when we lost against Real Madrid in May. And out of those six posts, five of them were in the Thiago thread slagging him off. I think we can probably discount their 'opinion'

[FaitAccompli]

If he turns out to be as boss as we all think/hope, we should make up a song to the tune of Space's Female of the Species:

“Ohhh, Haaland and Kane have nothing on you, Pepe and Werner join the back of the queue…”

[Garnier]

I had the same feeling with Brad Smith.

c'mon man Brad Smith sounds like any given surf instructor in California

to be fair to you, Bournemouth had pretty much the same feeling and willingly shelled out a nice little £6m for it .

[Samie]

https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1537457838888460289

First Day VLOG is here.

[Yevgeny]

How many domestic cup trophies would you swap for a single League or Champions League win?

Prestige is calculated by money these days. To win the FA CUP nets nearly 5M versus the 90M for winning the champions league. By that calculus, you would need to win 18 FA Cups to earn the equivalent of a Champions League win.

It’s a shame that you don’t have better things to do with your time than log onto the forum of a club you don’t support and troll people. Time to get yourself a girlfriend, mate. You can do it, we believe in you.

[KloppRoy]

we always have great forwards.
rush
Dalglish
God
Torres
Balotelli
Suarez
Mane
Salah
and now hopefully Darwin
if he can be half as good as any of these

[WhereAngelsPlay]

With due respect to the history of the League and FA Cup, they are now equivalent in prestige to glorified friendlies like the Nations League.

As to the quadruple claim, the operative word there is 'nearly'. We progressed from being nearly men to winners of the major titles thanks to becoming physically fitter pressing machines. We have failed to kick on from there since attempting to change from that formula to become more refined.

With all due respect,ram your fucking due respect. 

[Ghost Town]

IIIIII'm mad about da BoI

[SvenJohansen]

With due respect to the history of the League and FA Cup, they are now equivalent in prestige to glorified friendlies like the Nations League.

As to the quadruple claim, the operative word there is 'nearly'. We progressed from being nearly men to winners of the major titles thanks to becoming physically fitter pressing machines. We have failed to kick on from there since attempting to change from that formula to become more refined.

Who's this "We" you are talking about? It cant be Liverpool FC as it appears you don't support them. Bitching about a football club doesn't mean supporting them. If you want to moan and bitch about this club then maybe you're "following" the wrong club?

[Red Giant]

Lads....Bastion of Invincibility posted six times between gloating when we lost against West Ham in November, and gloating when we lost against Real Madrid in May. And out of those six posts, five of them were in the Thiago thread slagging him off. I think we can probably discount their 'opinion'

There is a good chance he is Didi Hamman 😁

[Son of Spion]

How many domestic cup trophies would you swap for a single League or Champions League win?

Prestige is calculated by money these days. To win the FA CUP nets nearly 5M versus the 90M for winning the champions league. By that calculus, you would need to win 18 FA Cups to earn the equivalent of a Champions League win.

Some years ago I, and lots of others like me, had nightmarish visions of where football and society itself was going. We saw a day dawning when the vacuous took over, and everything was about money. Success would be measured by social media banter points and prestige by how much cash your club has, regardless of where it came from.

That lamentable day arrived some time ago, and your post is simply indicative of it. Here we are, with the oldest and most historic club trophy in world football being pissed on because it 'only' brings the winners £5m*

Personally, I couldn't give a monkeys how much money a trophy win brings in. That's for the suits in the boardroom to concern themselves with. I just care about our team and club doing well and winning silverware. Try telling the 500,000+ at the parade that the FA Cup and League Cup have no prestige. They were the reward for a fantastic season, and two pieces of silverware more than virtually every other club in the country won. Being a Liverpool fan is about being part of something. About standing with our club as it tries to win everything it can win. It's about being there, about the experience and the memories, not the prize fund.

Personally, I prize the European Cup above everything else. Not for the money, but because I love that bloody trophy and I love what we've done in that competition. I love the memories. I wouldn't care a jot if winning it brought us just £2.50 in prize money.

It's really sad that everything in life is reduced to money these days. It demeans the spirit and the soul of the game. Mind you, it's just a symptom of the sick and soulless modern society we now live in. We don't need to fear a dystopian future anymore. We're already living it.


*I've not checked that figure, so will take your word for it.


Edit: I've only just realised what thread I'm in. Anyway, I can't wait to see Nunez play for us. I usually enjoy the closed season break because I can destress after a long season, but I'm chomping at the bit so I can see our new front line. 😎

[sheepfest]

Ha ha glorified cups but only when Liverpool win!
Tell that to my bank balance, tell that to my memories of being at Wembley last season & tell that to the parade spectacle.
I'll take same again next season please with the addition of welcoming Darwin Nunez.
 

[Peabee]

He’s not the player you’re describing though … he’s a lot more like Mane (as a 9) than a target man or traditional 9

Exactly.

He’s also been compared to Andy Carroll simply because he’s a tall CF with a ponytail.

[deano2727]

we always have great forwards.
rush
Dalglish
God
Torres
Balotelli
Suarez
Mane
Salah
and now hopefully Darwin
if he can be half as good as any of these

One of those is not like the others.

[kavah]

One of those is not like the others.

Ha ha. He scored a boss goal recently didn’t he, beat half the team and Rabona’d it. Probably in the Italian 3rd division 

[kj999]

BELLEND OF IDIOCY

[smurfinaus]

Big unit isnt he?.

Hope he use his less dominant foot more than Salah has his (been plenty of times in matches he could have more goals if only he trusted his right more...)

[Armand9]

One of those is not like the others.

  that's exactly what i was thinking

[nycjon]

I have this unshakable feeling he is going to end up like Luka Jovic; an average player who had everything fall into place for one season giving the appearance of a top player and subsequently being bought by a top club.

I have this unshakable feeling that the analytics guys and Klopp know what they're doing.

[spider-neil]

BELLEND OF IDIOCY

That's a bit harsh on Nunez.

[spider-neil]

Unfortunately I am quite confident that Darwin Nunez will not be a success. One good season (in a poor league) does not equal a good player, we have seen this many times. On observation, he looks like a very unnatural player and quite clumsy with his feet. I have this unshakable feeling he is going to end up like Luka Jovic; an average player who had everything fall into place for one season giving the appearance of a top player and subsequently being bought by a top club.

Two posts only. Both posts used to knock Nunez.

[Sangria]

you know when some players have the coolest sounding names like it's as if they were born for greatness, i get that same vibe from Darwin.

Darwin Núñez, that's COOL cool - my guy's destined for greatness and i'm not willing to hear otherwise, really. Debate your elders.

This guy currently plays for Wigan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Power_(footballer)

[Sangria]

He has "win" in his name.

Win is his middle name. Dunno why his parents named him Dar though.