06 Aug 2025 22:05:11
So Romano has just given the "Here we Go" for Nunez to Al-Hilal for £46.2m plus add-ons which will see it raise to over £50m, 3 year deal.
06 Aug 2025 22:23:12
Personally think that’s cheap considering the fees Saudi clubs have paid for players.
It’s still not a given we get Isak with Newcastle struggling to find a replacement.
I’d have kept Nunez until Isak was done, and if that didn’t happen at least we’re not short on attacking numbers.
06 Aug 2025 22:24:01
400K a week in wages as well from a league with cardboard fans.
Ed025 could you imagine those wages mate? We could eat from Marks and Spencer every day! : p.
{Ed025's Note - and we could afford the odd Big Mac KCD, and maybe even a season ticket at Bramley Moore mate.. :)
06 Aug 2025 22:50:28
Listen why does Romano get spoken of as a transfer expect he talks as much rubbish ad the PM?
06 Aug 2025 23:17:58
Where did you read the fee OP? Because I read it as 53mn + 11mn or something like that. Seems decent enough for me, given his struggles last season.
06 Aug 2025 23:33:33
Am I the only one wondering why Newcastle didn’t see him as an Isak replacement seeing the troubles they are having getting a striker in. Surely he is better than Sesko. Alternatively Liverpool giving him a season replacing Diaz’s role. Too late now but it has confused me why neither option was considered.
07 Aug 2025 06:36:26
Why would Newcastle want Nunez? He’s a waste of space. I’m surprised we actually found somebody to pay @ £50m. He’ll be ok in the desert - he’ll flatter to deceive.
07 Aug 2025 06:48:56
TJury, the answer to both questions is because he isn't good enough.
07 Aug 2025 07:01:03
A waste of space is a bit harsh WDW. He is still a Liverpool player mate.
07 Aug 2025 07:13:42
@T Jury “Too late now but it has confused me why neither option was considered”
How do we know what options have been considered mate?
I’m sure Newcastle scouting department have considered Nunez as an option alongside many of the strikers available this summer. They obviously felt he wasn’t the right option for them.
I would also imagine that Liverpool considered whether they should keep Darwin Núñez for the next season. They must’ve felt that selling him to Saudi was the better option.
07 Aug 2025 07:41:53
A waste of space! Short memory springs to mind.
07 Aug 2025 07:57:23
“Waste of space”, WDW? Five weeks after our tragedy, no current LFC player, no matter how underwhelming, should be subject to such a phrase. Grow up.
07 Aug 2025 09:00:44
Lads, there are some “terrible fans” on here. I keep telling you.
Go to Anfield, listen to the crowd every time Darwin touches the ball. They know football. Ignore unpleasant wools like WDW.
07 Aug 2025 09:09:41
I’m talking about a professional football player’s capability. What that’s got to do with the tragic death of another human being is beyond me and it’s tasteless to even try and link the two together.
I’ve not been a fan of Nunez since he arrived and you can trace that back over three tears on this forum. For an attacker at the highest level of the game he just isn’t good enough. That doesn’t mean to say that he is a bad person or that I don’t appreciate the effort he put in for two and a half years but if we are supposed to ignore the deficiencies of players at the club we won’t ever improve.
07 Aug 2025 09:23:34
The lack of respect for our players is astounding. It hasn't worked out for Nunez here and it makes sense for him to move on but calling him a waste of space is just so small minded. He is our top goalscorer this pre-season with 5 goals (plus at least 1 assist) . He's also come up big a couple of times in games like his stoppage time brace against Brentford and the 2 screamers against Newcastle when we had 10 men. Yes we expected more impact like this and definitely more goals but his presence on the pitch did benefit others (Salah called out how much he benefitted from playing with him) . A waste of space he is not.
Good luck to the guy and I hope he smashes it wherever he goes (unless he is playing against us obviously)
07 Aug 2025 09:54:15
Arne calling him out for not trying was the death knell but he was clearly frustrated. Apart from those 2 occasions he gave everything for the cause, created havoc, mostly to himself, but I hope he remains in our thoughts as someone who wanted to do what he could for the team. Sadly scoring goals was his prime objective he fell short on.
07 Aug 2025 10:03:19
Calling a human being - a really decent one by all accounts - one who will achieve more in a week than most will in a life time - a waste of space - seems deeply classless and makes you a terrible fan.
07 Aug 2025 10:25:35
Read the room and retract, don't double down, .
07 Aug 2025 10:28:57
@Shipley, emotions are high because of the tragic passing of one of our players but in the normal course of events - as will happen in the upcoming season if / when we lose a couple of games - the respect you are talking about (which I think is the wrong word - it is more like appreciation ) goes sailing out of the window, or did I miss something, for example, when TAA was booed at Anfield?
07 Aug 2025 10:39:14
WDW
You referee to a player you don’t like as a “waste of space” and yet the space he occupies has achieved a huge amount.
I suspect you’ve not gotten over championing him publicly before he arrived and him having the temerity to let you down personally by not being as good as you said he would be.