Darwin Núñez, the bomb of Liverpool

Liverpool made official this Monday the signing of one of the most appetizing candies on the European market. Darwin Núñez leaves Benfica for the Premier League after the ‘red’ club has paid out 75 million fixed euros plus 25 in variables for the Uruguayan footballer. An irrefutable proposal for the Lisbon entity and an arrival that could cause a domino effect that could affect other strikers such as Sadio Mané or Robert Lewandowski.

«The club has reached an agreement with Liverpool FC for the sale of all the rights of the player Darwin Núñez, for an amount of 75 million euros. The agreement provides for the payment of a variable remuneration, so that the global amount of the sale may reach the amount of 100 million euros. This is how Benfica announced this Monday the sale of one of its main assets. The club chaired by Rui Costa, which is listed on the stock market and is obliged to communicate the figures in this type of operation, thus says goodbye to a player who promised to star in one of the soap operas of the summer.

And it is that Darwin Núñez has become one of the most decisive strikers during the past season. The Uruguayan played a total of 41 games with Benfica, in which he was capable of scoring 34 goals and dishing out four assists. His figures are those of a player who moves like few others in the area but who also knows how to get out of it to associate with the rest of his teammates and who can also live in space, attacking the backs of central defenders. All these qualities have convinced Jürgen Klopp, who has seen in the striker the perfect piece to take over from Sadio Mané, who could be living his last days at Liverpool.

The evolution of Darwin Núñez in Portugal has been meteoric. This season has been his definitive takeoff, but throughout his career he has shown that he has a special bond with the goal. They know it in Almería. There, the former Peñarol player played during the 2019-20 academic year, a year of acclimatization to European football that the Artigas striker took full advantage of. In the Smartbank League he made a difference, scoring 16 goals and making himself known in a showcase for which Benfica was attentive, seeing in him an almost certain investment. Today those 24 million euros, a record figure for the Andalusian club, are an anecdote next to the 100 who hope to enter Da Luz from the Premier.

Several clubs were pending from the signing of Darwin Núñez. In addition to Liverpool and Benfica themselves, Bayern and Barça also had their eyes on the Uruguayan. The Germans hope that the arrival of Darwin Núñez will unlock the departure of Sadio Mané, a player for whom the Bavarians yearn and who could open the door to a possible departure of Robert Lewandowski, the object of desire of the Catalans. The 100 million euros paid by Liverpool open wide the doors of the market. The summer seems that it will be moved in the position of ‘nine’.