Darwin Nunez - Thoughts?

[VladimirIlyich]

1 minute ago, razor said:

 

He was a decent little player to be fair.  Not to be confused with Darren Peacock who played like he had boots on the wrong feet and is one of the luckiest people ever to somehow make a career out of something he just couldn't do.

 

Had a great post-football career in the music industry and won a Grammy, apparently.

 

So good they named a football club after him.

[TD_LFC]

Always rated him.

[TheBitch]

Probably be some sad faces in here tonight. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

 

[Ne Moe Imya]

Said before the season that he would outscore Salah this year. 

 

Was beginning to doubt, but if that performance was anything to go by ...

[YNWAViking]

I've been very negative to Darwin as of late but tonight he came on and was absolutely immense. Scoring two goals like it was nothing. Absolute crazy monster today. 

[Denny Crane]

On 02/07/2023 at 07:41, Denny Crane said:

20/1 to be top scorer next season. I reckon Klopp will simplify his game - less involved,  less running around but more goals and goals. 

 

Keep the faith -  he will score goals. 

[etho]

His link up was good as well, superb hold up and lay back to Jota who should have done a bit better

[The Midnight Rambler]

He's a good option to bring off the bench.

[FrenchEyeGlass]

IMMENSE. He has to start now. He completely changes the dynamic of our team.

[an tha]

Well well well who would have thought it....Get the ball forward quickly to a player with pace stretching the opposition....

 

I am sure i have seen that work for us in the past too.

 

 

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

What a fucking guy

[aws]

One in each eye for the haters. 

[manwiththestick]

Love him you know.

[Bjornebye]

Fucking muppets. 

[Rushies tash]

Trying to rep everyone who has always been on the Nunez train and those who have now realised how awesome he is - until I run out of rep.

[VladimirIlyich]

Stig and me will particularly enjoy this one. If he is a Donkey then it's Eyeore all the way. Mention to Alisson too,what a fuckin keeper!

[ZonkoVille77]

Playing to his strengths produces that. Who'd have thunk it.... delighted for the lad. 

 

If we played like that all the time then he'd bag loads. But we don't and that's why he's largely ineffective in our standard setup. If I was Klopp I'd change everything to work with him as a focal point. He's immense running off players. 

[TD_LFC]

Steady now.

 

He needs to do it the next game, and the game after and the game after now, or we're no further on than last season when he had a good game every now and then (especially when everyone was saying pre-match that Newcastle were a good team for him).

 

Encouraging that he came on and made an impact, needs to get into the starting line up and performing consistently.

[Mook]

Hopefully we can have a week off from people slating on here.

 

He's going to be a big player for us in the coming years.

[VladimirIlyich]

1 minute ago, TD_LFC said:

Steady now.

 

He needs to do it the next game, and the game after and the game after now, or we're no further on than last season when he had a good game every now and then (especially when everyone was saying pre-match that Newcastle were a good team for him).

 

Encouraging that he came on and made an impact, needs to get into the starting line up and performing consistently.

Difficult to be in a starting line up when not selected.

[FrenchEyeGlass]

The players dug us out of a whole today and they deserve so much credit for that last 30 minutes.

 

Now it's over the club to back them in the transfer market and bring in two players in the next week.

[an tha]

He'll score shitloads of goals when we have him running onto us getting ball forward quickly and directly and against teams who are not camped in own final third.

 

He stretches teams and he is ideal in stretched games.....the challenge is how do we get best out of him when we are probing and asking forwards to come short and link play etc against parked buses.

 

Hopefully we figure it out.

[TD_LFC]

7 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Difficult to be in a starting line up when not selected.

 

But it's pointless pretending there's no reason for not being selected.

 

It's not like we were keeping Ronaldo (the proper one) on the bench and it's completely inexplicable why, he's had significantly more ineffectual games than he's had good games which is why he hasn't started.

 

If he was doing more on and off the ball he'd have been the first option against Bournemouth and Newcastle when we went down to ten and he'd have been building some momentum.

 

He comes on in a game that was conducive to his skill and scored, hopefully things will start to click with him now but he needs to dig in and show it in games that aren't.

 

 

[FrenchEyeGlass]

We should go to a diamond. We have the players in the middle to make it work in possession at the very least. Buy two new players and we can have a brilliant season. Konate out until after int'l break so need a new CB.

 

Ali

Trent  NewCB  Virg R obbo

NewDM

Szobo     Macca

Gakpo

Nunez     Salah

 

If we don't do anything in the market though, today will just be the same as last season's Carvalho winner in the last minute.