What's the criteria to judge how successful this season is for him? Overall goals contribution, i.e. goals and assists? Mins/goals scored?
Make or break season for Nunez?
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Pretty much yeah, same what all strikers are judged on, especially one that cost as much as he did but because he's one of our own and we watch all the games we can focus on more than just goals + assists and dissect performances as a whole, whereas your rival fans will just see what they wanna see i.e the 5 second clips where he's blazing a 1 on 1 wide or hitting the post from 2 yards out.
So essentially exactly what he did last season but with a bit more luck/ruthlessness in front of goal. The conversion rate was his only real let down last season.
People forget the number of chances he actually created that other team mates (namely Mo) fluffed up....he's even won us games when he hasn't scored i.e the pen he won at home to Fulham.....by simply putting a shift in and asserting himself. Instances like Leicester at home when he did everything right but the dink rebounded off the post onto the defender who ends up scoring an OG. The Torres esque chest control and volley at Everton when Prickford tipped it onto the bar. Hitting the post against Palace right at the end of the half (probably doesn't get sent off if that goes in). The open goal at Ajax where he hit the post. The one against West Ham where he chested it down and hit a volley which crashed off the post.
He creates so many chances that he makes for himself by using his pace, power and movement. No one else in our forward line really give us that, Diaz and Mo wanna take on the world by themselves, cut inside and unleash one, Jota and Gakpo like to find the pockets of space and get on the half turn and use their cleverness to link up play.
Let's face it, for the money he's a disaster. Cult heroes cost buttons, he cost £70M or whatever it was.
Any cunt playing up front for us gets chances and scores goals. It was unfortunate for him (and us) that we signed him at the same time as City's striker because there's light year's difference.
The money we paid should see a player propel us to the next level, I'll be surprised if that happens. If it does, great. Otherwise, he'll be off to somewhere in Spain next year for £20 odd mil.
Any cunt playing up front for us gets chances and scores goals. It was unfortunate for him (and us) that we signed him at the same time as City's striker because there's light year's difference.
The money we paid should see a player propel us to the next level, I'll be surprised if that happens. If it does, great. Otherwise, he'll be off to somewhere in Spain next year for £20 odd mil.
I don’t know why we bother putting anyone else out on the pitch when Nunez is such a Superman and can beat everyone all by himself and everyone else as well as the posts, are failing him - I mean he makes all his own chances from his across the board amazing skill set - that exquisite touch and intelligent movement.
It’s amazing he hasn’t asked for a move, what with everyone else in the team and the manager holding him back.
I’m not even sure the sport of football will be able to contain his talent - maybe he can solve poverty & bring peace to entire nations in between training sessions….
It’s amazing he hasn’t asked for a move, what with everyone else in the team and the manager holding him back.
I’m not even sure the sport of football will be able to contain his talent - maybe he can solve poverty & bring peace to entire nations in between training sessions….
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I just don't get why we signed him. I agree with whoever said if we had planned to make him the focal point in attack we wouldn't have signed Gakpo. It's good to have options but Nunez is never going to be happy with an Origi role. Signing him was just a muddled bit of recruitment that was probably made worse by the fact we were so shit last year. With wide forwards overlapping a false 9 the only people that seem to suit the central role are Jota and Gakpo.
Perhaps it was a “two for every position” thing? Jota/Gakpo for the 9, Nunez and Dias for the left and Mo and … for the right?
Stop being a negative fucker. We really do have a chance while Klopp’s with us!
He is the best thing since R9 and Torres. Our manager is unwilling to tap into that talent. I love the guy.
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He's better than Suarez and Sturridge? Cool
He's fucking shite. The stats say he's shite. The nobheads banging on that he had the best goals per minute bollocks were lying, he's got the worst. Everyone can see that he's fucking wank. He's fucking shite.
But I'd fucking love him to run wild at these barcodes tomorrow.
But I'd fucking love him to run wild at these barcodes tomorrow.
In the last 30 years, based on performance, Nunez isn't even in the top 10 of our forwards.
If he's at a point where he has to be compared to me to look good then things are worse than I thought.
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What've you been imbibing? Clearly not facts.
Liverpool top scorers 2022/23
Salah 30. (19) (4,296 mins) = 142.3 mins per goal
Nunez 15 (9) (2,365 mins) = 157.67 mpg
Bobby 13 (11)
Gakpo 7 (7) (1,859 mins) = 265.57 mpg
Jota 7 (7) (1,394 mins) = 199.15 mpg
Diaz 5 (4) (1,354 mins) = 270.8 mpg
Yeah Nunez clearly the worst. Fuck me.
And to reiterate he scored against the following (so he's definitely no flat track bully) :
City
United x2
Newcastle
Napoli
Real Madrid
Ajax
Arsenal
I don't think he should be starting every game and he misses more chances than he should (a bit unlucky to be fair last season) but he gets himself into scoring positions time and time again which is why his xG is the highest of all of them at 0.64 vs next highest Mo's 0.59, Jota 0.54 and the other two aren't even on the the same planet) - which shows he misses a lot but also that he has a high ceiling if we can get him to reach it.
Have a lie down mate. Then shoot yourself in the face at your earliest convenience.
Facts hurt eh. Funny how you've nothing to say about 'he's got the worst stats' when ... he hasn't!
I'm well chilled BTW just back from a great trip to Budapest. Chilled compared to this guy below anyway!
Oh you poor thing. Upset by exclamation marks now, that's definitely not weird at all.
"Calmer than you are."
His minutes per goal were decent for how many he missed. There's something there. Will he unlock it for us? Probably not, but I'd rather watch him try than not.
Calm down lads.
i am calm!
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