Topic: Darwin Núñez (Darwin Gabriel Núñez Ribeiro)

[mullyred94]

My patience with him has gone. Can’t imagine Edwards is impressed. Sell him now while we might still get decent money and go get Watkins.

are you fishing?

[Dench57]

Darwin's is the thread people are going to after that performance 

[HeartAndSoul]

Did he do anything of note with the ball? Lost the ball twice within a minute of coming on then done nothing else

[DelTrotter]

This place is insane, what the fuck was he meant to do with a few hoofs at him in 25 mins?

[Wool]

Yeah the reactions are genuinely insane.

[mullyred94]

sell the whole forward line we don't deserve any of them to be honest

[Stockholm Syndrome]

I was going to post about this thread shooting up after this match as a joke, just to see it actually happening.

I actually cannot believe this place. It's like a fucking parody now

[kingmonkey007]

Did he do anything of note with the ball? Lost the ball twice within a minute of coming on then done nothing else

Jota lost it 3 times in his first 5 minutes but Steve McManaman failed to mention that so guess you wouldn't have known. 

[Buster Gonad]

Zero impact.

And Jota, Elliot Danns,or the three forwards that started.  Well mo got a penalty I suppose but it's a bad night to be trying to lay blame on Nunez

[AndyMuller]

Yeah I’m not his biggest fan at all but can’t be blamed for tonight.

[PEG2K]

Oh come on guys. Most people in this thread probably remember me as the guy who has nothing good to say about Nunez. But he shouldn't take any blame today. We couldn't move the ball past our halfway line. What do you expect the forwards to do? Drop back and dribble all the way up?

[Dave D]

Let’s be honest. The new manager will have to sell to buy and Nunez will probably one of the names at the top of the list to sell. I’m not sure what we’d get for him, £20m-£30m maybe. He tried, it wasn’t good enough.

[mullyred94]

Let’s be honest. The new manager will have to sell to buy and Nunez will probably one of the names at the top of the list to sell. I’m not sure what we’d get for him, £20m-£30m maybe. He tried, it wasn’t good enough.

Maybe per limb

[Buster Gonad]

Let’s be honest. The new manager will have to sell to buy and Nunez will probably one of the names at the top of the list to sell. I’m not sure what we’d get for him, £20m-£30m maybe. He tried, it wasn’t good enough.

Utter shite. Even Timo werner was sold back to leipzig for that kind of money 

[MonsLibpool]

He came with not long to go. LOL.

This has little to do with him.

[rawcusk8]

When Klopp leaves I genuinely hope some of our so called fans fuck off too, no idea what it means to support the players. Nowhere to be seen when we’re winning and doing well but like cockroaches crawling out the woodwork when things are going bad.

[JP!]

This thread is the worst on the site.

If you can honestly watch that tonight and your first thought be about selling or criticising Nunez you are absolutely off your fucking bonce.

[killer-heels]

I mean, we couldn’t even get the ball to him. Not sure what he can do about that.

[Stockholm Syndrome]

This thread is the worst on the site.

If you can honestly watch that tonight and your first thought be about selling or criticising Nunez you are absolutely off your fucking bonce.

A fucking achievement if I ever saw one these days too

[amir87]

He could have been subbed on in the last minute and some of the clowns would still bump this thread.

[Irishred1]

Scape goat alert

[Sheer Magnetism]

He did nothing when he came on but c'mon, this has very little or nothing to do with Nunez.

[Father Ted]

He barely got a sniff thanks to us collectively forgetting how to string an attack together (one tame header when the game was long gone aside).

Not his biggest fan, but it’s definitely not on him tonight.

[Draex]

His first two involvements was to lose the ball, of course he can do better, they all can.

[hoganballs]

He’s a big athletic guy who runs about a lot but outside that there’s not much else. Michael Owen said on the Simon Jordan podcast that footballers were more skilful in his day and thats nowadays all you need to be is athletic and pass a ball from point A to point B. Nunez certainly gives credence to that point of view.

[kingmonkey007]

He’s a big athletic guy who runs about a lot but outside that there’s not much else. Michael Owen said on the Simon Jordan podcast that footballers were more skilful in his day and thats nowadays all you need to be is athletic and pass a ball from point A to point B. Nunez certainly gives credence to that point of view.

I stopped reading when you said the names Michael Owen and Simon Jordan.

[Eeyore]

He’s a big athletic guy who runs about a lot but outside that there’s not much else. Michael Owen said on the Simon Jordan podcast that footballers were more skilful in his day and thats nowadays all you need to be is athletic and pass a ball from point A to point B. Nunez certainly gives credence to that point of view.

Fantastic source mate. You should post what Owen says to Jordan more often.

[harryc]

Not his fault tonight we couldn’t progress the ball out of defence apart from the endless hoofing.

[jonnypb]

Not his fault tonight we couldn’t progress the ball out of defence apart from the endless hoofing.

Exactly and when it was played long on the odd occasion to Nunez, Jota and Danns weren’t there to win the second ball. We had nearly 15 mins when these 3 were on the pitch together and we barely played a ball up to them.

[hoganballs]

Fantastic source mate. You should post what Owen says to Jordan more often.

Thank you, I might just do that.


Stick a 6ft 2 fit as a fiddle triathlete in there and ask him to run about a lot and he’d also cause havoc.
But for 75 million, you’d at least expect a good touch. He’s a slightly more polished version of Andy Carroll, and that’s being kind.

[dirkster]

Thank you, I might just do that.


Stick a 6ft 2 fit as a fiddle triathlete in there and ask him to run about a lot and he’d also cause havoc.
But for 75 million, you’d at least expect a good touch. He’s a slightly more polished version of Andy Carroll, and that’s being kind.

Well that's just a load of crap isn't it. Do you really think Carroll would've scored the kind of goals Nunez did against Newcastle or Brentford, or Burnley?!

[LallanaInPyjamas]

He’s a slightly more polished version of Andy Carroll, and that’s being kind.

That's not how the song goes, although if any fans are likely to sing something as polite as that, it's Fulham on Sunday.

[jonnypb]

Thank you, I might just do that.


Stick a 6ft 2 fit as a fiddle triathlete in there and ask him to run about a lot and he’d also cause havoc.
But for 75 million, you’d at least expect a good touch. He’s a slightly more polished version of Andy Carroll, and that’s being kind.

He’s got way better stats than Andy Carroll for Liverpool, but don’t let that ruin your narrative!

[kasperoff]

Not really the night to be ragging on Darwin. Barely got the ball to him.

[Buster Gonad]

He’s a big athletic guy who runs about a lot but outside that there’s not much else. Michael Owen said on the Simon Jordan podcast that footballers were more skilful in his day and thats nowadays all you need to be is athletic and pass a ball from point A to point B. Nunez certainly gives credence to that point of view.

I mean obviously you're a troll but quoting a player who's career nose dived when he lost his athletic ability to prove that players now are only about athletic ability hardly works.  Owen played in an era when we had a myriad of players who lacked technical ability .

[G Richards]

Darwin Nunez was fed crumbs when he came on. The whole team didn’t create anything in the second half.

The plus and minus points for him have been done to death. He scores goals and gets assists. He also misses too many. Of course all strikers miss chances, but Nunez misses more than he should. He is fast, strong, and causes defenders problems. If he stays as is, he’s a solid enough player but there is an understandable longing for better, especially given the strikers we’ve had over the years. But not so fast. Maybe Nunez will kick on a bit more with playing regularly and being a main man in a post-Salah world.

And it remains to be seen what sort of tune the new manager will get out of him.

Definitely keep, for me.

[Zlen]

None of the attacking subs saw the ball at all last night. I remember Danns losing one, Darwin a couple and Jota few more. All were horrible hoofs or uncontrolled panic passes in their general direction.

[TepidT2O]

I think the right tactic to beat their press was either knock it into the channels for him or a long ball for a flick on.  But you need people close to him for that

[Dree]

None of the attacking subs saw the ball at all last night. I remember Danns losing one, Darwin a couple and Jota few more. All were horrible hoofs or uncontrolled panic passes in their general direction.

It’s something Klopp used to do more when we were losing early on: bring on all the strikers we have but cede the midfield even more. Flashbacks to Sevilla with Benteke, Origi, and Sturridge gazing on with no hope of seeing the ball.

[groove]

Regardless of your eye-test on him, we create more shots when he's on the pitch than when he's not. You can't drop him when you need 3 goals. Maybe you'd take him off when you're narrowly leading and you want someone who can chase, press and make the ball stick up front a little more to relieve pressure, but I simply don't understand the strategy of not playing your most shot-heavy footballer when you need to be scoring.