The Donkey
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He’s also the slowest
thanks for the laugh
He can't pass the ball and he's got the brainpower of a jellyfish there's no way he can go into a midfield. He's regressing rather evolving.
I still find it odd how we're so focused on him in particular.
We've got 4 forwards who are useful but need to make a step up if we want to win the league without a whole heap of luck.
Jota can't, his body won't allow it. He will take too long playing himself into form then get injured.
Gakpo has been more useful than Nunez but you can easily also criticize his finishing, and unlike Nunez there are games where he is just simply not that impactful at all when he isn't popping up to score. He, unlike Nunez, seems to me to be given the position hed exactly want.
Diaz has stepped up earlier this season, we'd need to see him continue that output, and he doesn't seem to be.
They all miss chances and fail to make the step. When Núñez does it, even though everyone is all at pains to express how early they on they wrote him off, he gets the most stick. Why? If your expectation is that he's shit and you have no hope for him, why are you disappointed?
Oh, and Chiesa is playing some minutes for the under 21s.
We've got 4 forwards who are useful but need to make a step up if we want to win the league without a whole heap of luck.
Jota can't, his body won't allow it. He will take too long playing himself into form then get injured.
Gakpo has been more useful than Nunez but you can easily also criticize his finishing, and unlike Nunez there are games where he is just simply not that impactful at all when he isn't popping up to score. He, unlike Nunez, seems to me to be given the position hed exactly want.
Diaz has stepped up earlier this season, we'd need to see him continue that output, and he doesn't seem to be.
They all miss chances and fail to make the step. When Núñez does it, even though everyone is all at pains to express how early they on they wrote him off, he gets the most stick. Why? If your expectation is that he's shit and you have no hope for him, why are you disappointed?
Oh, and Chiesa is playing some minutes for the under 21s.
I can't understand why we kept him this last summer. I'm always patient with players but it was obvious even to me towards the end of last season that he just wasn't up to it.
Everyone was banging on about signing a dm or a cb when we only had 2 forwards, one of whom is shit and the other constantly injured. I don't know how people missed it.
Everyone was banging on about signing a dm or a cb when we only had 2 forwards, one of whom is shit and the other constantly injured. I don't know how people missed it.
I guess it's because some of us knew deep down that he wasn't going anywhere, so why bother.
Well that's my reasoning anyway.
I wanted a forward, but I think last summer was never going to happen. We got a keeper and a dead RW FFS. No one got what they wanted
I made peace with last night and read the thread and now I'm pissed off again
Keita?
Lucas? 👀
Oh I don't want him to leave. It's keeping you all alive.
Jota has been subject of a fair amount of debate due to his injury record and I think his future should be considered in the summer. We can't have a player that's guaranteed to be out for ~3 months every season.
Diaz and Gakpo are your standard 10+ a season attackers rather than elite goalscorers, yes, but at least they look like they fit in. We could upgrade but they're not top of the list.
Nunez is the focus of discussion because he's a very expensive waste of space and offers nothing when he's not scoring, which is sadly most of the time.
He looked a bad buy from day 1 and somehow he'll have lasted 3 seasons at the club. Fingers crossed it isn't any more than that.
Maybe Salah last year with that stupid poll about keep or move on? what was it 80% said to sell. May need DB to confirm 🙂
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keep scrolling until you find darwin basically, he’s behind all our other forwards and behind a lot of players we’d be furious about signing
*url keeps defaulting to last season
I've corrected that for you, easy error to make.
Ive wanted Darwin to come good but it's clearly just not going to happen for us. He doesn't offer enough when he's not scoring and he's regressed in terms of finding the net.
This year was make or break and unfortunately it's turning into the latter. Will be disappointed if we don't offload him this summer.
This year was make or break and unfortunately it's turning into the latter. Will be disappointed if we don't offload him this summer.
You must have missed Slot happily playing Tsimikas in games such as Bayer Leverkusen before he got injured. Bradley so far only featured because of an injury.
The only place we should moving him back to… is Portugal.
His passing is shocking! (did you see his pass to Szobo, before we got the equaliser? That's him in a nutshell)
His first touch and dribbling is generally poor too. The game against Chelsea, I thought he was turning a corner, but alas no.
He can kick and run, and has the ability to run in behind, albeit brainlessly (offside), that's about it.
His best game at Anfield was that 1 game against us for Benfica, where we all were fooled into thinking he was the next Suarez.
No, ideally you'd want to ship him out of Europe so there's no risk he ends up playing against us again.
Darwin Nunez struggles are masked by Mo Salah's genius but Liverpool star faces crucial spell
There’s so much to like about Nunez. His energy, his ability to drag defenders out of position, his physicality, his passion and his seemingly never-say-die attitude. Yet he has scored just three goals so far this season on the back of a decent return of 18 last term, although he went a period of 10 games without a goal as Liverpool’s hunt for the Premier League title faltered.
It’s not just his lack of goals, either. Roberto Firmino was not a prolific No.9 for the Reds. He brought so much more to the attack. Nunez does that, too. But in this Liverpool side they need a No.9 who scores.
The likes of Salah are picking up the slack, scoring from positions that sometimes he has little right to do and then showing lethal form when chances present themselves. But when you look at the stats it often doesn’t match what we are seeing with our eyes. You get the feeling that Nunez is missing loads but he’s not.
Salah has missed nine ‘big chances’ this term according to the Premier League’s official website. Nunez has missed three in 11 appearances. It’s 50 for Nunez since he arrived at the club and 46 for Salah in the same period.
Nunez’s XG over the last three Premier League seasons is about 14 above the 22 goals he has scored. Salah’s tally is closer to seven more than the 50 he has scored. The major difference is that Salah’s goal tallies cover up any chances missed. If he squanders an opportunity in a game, he so often either scores the next one or pulls off a finish out of nowhere.
It’s more the perception. If Nunez missed three big chances and scored two, nobody would care. But too often he is missing opportunities and not following it up with goals.
Nunez is 25 now. He came from Benfica with a big price tag attached, a deal which could rise to £85m but with certain clauses which have yet to be triggered.
There’s so much to like about Nunez. His energy, his ability to drag defenders out of position, his physicality, his passion and his seemingly never-say-die attitude. Yet he has scored just three goals so far this season on the back of a decent return of 18 last term, although he went a period of 10 games without a goal as Liverpool’s hunt for the Premier League title faltered.
It’s not just his lack of goals, either. Roberto Firmino was not a prolific No.9 for the Reds. He brought so much more to the attack. Nunez does that, too. But in this Liverpool side they need a No.9 who scores.
The likes of Salah are picking up the slack, scoring from positions that sometimes he has little right to do and then showing lethal form when chances present themselves. But when you look at the stats it often doesn’t match what we are seeing with our eyes. You get the feeling that Nunez is missing loads but he’s not.
Salah has missed nine ‘big chances’ this term according to the Premier League’s official website. Nunez has missed three in 11 appearances. It’s 50 for Nunez since he arrived at the club and 46 for Salah in the same period.
Nunez’s XG over the last three Premier League seasons is about 14 above the 22 goals he has scored. Salah’s tally is closer to seven more than the 50 he has scored. The major difference is that Salah’s goal tallies cover up any chances missed. If he squanders an opportunity in a game, he so often either scores the next one or pulls off a finish out of nowhere.
It’s more the perception. If Nunez missed three big chances and scored two, nobody would care. But too often he is missing opportunities and not following it up with goals.
Nunez is 25 now. He came from Benfica with a big price tag attached, a deal which could rise to £85m but with certain clauses which have yet to be triggered.
