Evolution? What?
Also, I don't think you need an extensive knowledge of Portuguese football to pick our Nunez for 100M.
tactical evolution..!
your opinion, my opinion, both entitled to them ..
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It’s been quite a while now since Mane was a jet-heeled left winger capable of skipping past players with ludicrous ease before cutting inside and wreaking havoc in front of goal. Although not identical in profile, and not quite as prolific (yet), Luis Diaz has already picked up that particular baton while bringing several different qualities of his own to the party.
The player Liverpool are most likely losing is, instead, a centre-forward. In that sense, it’s entirely logical that they’ve chosen to go for a number nine rather than a wide forward to replace Mane. What’s really intriguing, though, is that this is the first time Klopp has pinpointed a conventional striker as a priority transfer target since joining Liverpool.
He enjoyed enormous success with Robert Lewandowski and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang at Borussia Dortmund, of course, but at Liverpool his success has been built around a front three comprising an extremely unorthodox, arguably unique focal point in Roberto Firmino, whose primary role has been to drop deep, drag defenders out of shape and create space and chances for Mane and Mohamed Salah to exploit. Firmino’s game time has dwindled significantly since the signing of Diogo Jota, but he too, while a completely different type of player to Firmino, wasn’t signed as an out-and-out number nine as such (though he’s shown he can be very effective through the middle in certain games).
Nunez therefore represents a pretty drastic departure from the kind of forward we’ve become accustomed to watching under Klopp (Divock Origi aside), which opens up all kinds of avenues for this team in terms of tactical evolution. While he could conceivably become the new lynchpin of the front three, providing a more physical presence in between Diaz (or Jota) and Salah in the standard 4-3-3 blueprint, he’s by no means a static penalty box poacher, and also more than capable of posing a threat from out wide on the left.
