Darwin Nunez - Thoughts?

[Mook]

What's the agenda against this lad?

 

Even when he scores with an emphatic finish, the commentators are saying he should've taken his time and passed it into the net.

 

Absolutely fucking bizarre.

 

Great goal by the way, I really, really hope his shoulder is ok.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Another good performance, and an extremely important goal. Hope he’s all right.

[3 Stacks]

Long term nitpicks about him aside, we'd need him to beat Madrid.

[LFC 6 Times]

Much better on the left. Excellent control and finish and the effort in 2nd half cutting in from left was brilliant.

[johnsusername]

Great finish. Not sure why we stopped using his pace on the counter after 20 minutes. 

[Denny Crane]

Looking like we got him on the cheap he will end up as a Liverpool legend no doubt about it. 

[Em City]

Opposition fans and LFC 'support' hipsters can cry together when this lad starts ripping the arse out of teams consistently. 

 

'He's another Andy Carroll' - I never saw Andy Carroll burn any defender for pace or crack 25 yard volleys off his 'weak' foot. Fucking love him.

[TheBitch]

The best part of this season, no question. 
 

I love him and it’s a hill I’m willing to die on. 

[Section_31]

3 hours ago, Mook said:

What's the agenda against this lad?

 

Even when he scores with an emphatic finish, the commentators are saying he should've taken his time and passed it into the net.

 

Absolutely fucking bizarre.

 

Great goal by the way, I really, really hope his shoulder is ok.

It's a 'story'.

 

The expensive flop.

 

 

[Mathewbet1]

Not sure what his ceiling is but could be unplayable soon 

[TheHowieLama]

Thoughts?

 

Not really -- honestly maybe more sounds and colors.

[Bobby Hundreds]

If he's not on the pitch I feel disappointed even when he's been taken off for playing shit.

[Pete]

10 hours ago, Section_31 said:

It's a 'story'.

 

The expensive flop.

 

 

Haaland ain’t exactly ripping up trees right now though. 

[Jose Jones]

4 minutes ago, Pete said:

Haaland ain’t exactly ripping up trees right now though. 

Haaland has been exactly like everyone expected though. Scored loads of goals, injured a bit, probably made Man City as a team worse.

The journos are probably just waiting to see if Man City win the league before they write the “Haaland is amazing, but are Man City actually worse?” and “Is Haaland the new Ronaldo and worth £1 million a week?” articles.

[TD_LFC]

8 minutes ago, Pete said:

Haaland ain’t exactly ripping up trees right now though. 

 

He's doing alright, we could have done with his 26 goals this season even with his current quiet patch.

[El Rojo]

I’m enjoying the narrative that this lad is creating for himself.

 

 

@Tony Moanero

[Rico1304]

I still think he’s brilliant. Defenders are always looking where he is, creates chaos. 

[dave u]

12 hours ago, TheBitch said:

The best part of this season, no question. 
 

I love him and it’s a hill I’m willing to die on. 

 

You won't die alone, I'll be at your side.

[Dundalis]

I mean, the exact same thing happened when he first went to Benfica. Struggled to adapt scored like 6 league goals his first season. Adapts his second season, sets the league on fire. He's literally repeating that here taking a full season to adapt, but starting to find his way.

[Mathewbet1]

Don't think that shoulder knock looked too serious, plus darwin has a touch of chuck norris about him.

[Tony Moanero]

2 hours ago, El Rojo said:

I’m enjoying the narrative that this lad is creating for himself.

 

 

@Tony Moanero

 

[an tha]

I have absolutely no doubt he will knock in 20 league goals next season.

 

Injuries permitting obviously.

[TD_LFC]

1 hour ago, Dundalis said:

I mean, the exact same thing happened when he first went to Benfica. Struggled to adapt scored like 6 league goals his first season. Adapts his second season, sets the league on fire. He's literally repeating that here taking a full season to adapt, but starting to find his way.

 

Or did they change the system to feed him chances at the expense of the rest of the players to give him the volume of goals he scored?

 

The split of goals over the last three seasons hint towards that.

 

2020/2021 - All Comps

 

1st - 21

2nd -14

3rd - 14

4th - 9

5th - 8 

 

2021/2022 - All Comps

 

1st - 34

2nd - 10

3rd - 10

4th - 8

5th - 5

 

2022/2023 - All Comps (half season)

 

1st - 21

2nd - 17

3rd - 12

4th - 8

5th - 6

 

Shades of the season Ronaldo scored lots of goals at the expense of everyone else on his second go at Utd. 

 

There has to be some mid point where we're not focused solely on trying to give him chances for him to score a high number of goals and he becomes more  proficient in the position he was bought for so we don't have to keep playing him in what will soon be a congested position.

 

Hopefully next season we'll see how it's all meant to work.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Rico1304 said:

I still think he’s brilliant. Defenders are always looking where he is, creates chaos. 

A bit of a cliché that I always like boring people with is that I want the opposing defenders to know they've been in a game. He's definitely not easy or predictable to play against.

[dave u]

19 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

 

Or did they change the system to feed him chances at the expense of the rest of the players to give him the volume of goals he scored?

 

The split of goals over the last three seasons hint towards that.

 

2020/2021 - All Comps

 

1st - 21

2nd -14

3rd - 14

4th - 9

5th - 8 

 

2021/2022 - All Comps

 

1st - 34

2nd - 10

3rd - 10

4th - 8

5th - 5

 

2022/2023 - All Comps (half season)

 

1st - 21

2nd - 17

3rd - 12

4th - 8

5th - 6

 

Shades of the season Ronaldo scored lots of goals at the expense of everyone else on his second go at Utd. 

 

There has to be some mid point where we're not focused solely on trying to give him chances for him to score a high number of goals and he becomes more  proficient in the position he was bought for so we don't have to keep playing him in what will soon be a congested position.

 

Hopefully next season we'll see how it's all meant to work.

 

Couldn't disagree more with the Ronaldo comparison. We aren't setting our team up so he can score goals, he just looks like he'll score loads because of how he plays. And he also creates a fuckload of chances for others, it's not his fault that most of the time they've wasted the chances he's created.

 

He looks like a 25/30 goal and double digit assists forward to me. When he gets an uninterrupted run and the team is functioning as it should he's going to be sound, and he's not a Ronaldo / Haaland type where everyone else suffers while they pad their goal stats. He's the opposite of that. Plus he works his bollocks off getting back to help out too.