_00_deathscar

I mean there’s no incentive for a selling club to sell before the World Cup

Unless there’s already a deal in place or we’re signing frees (hint hint Nunez and Salah), surely that must be rare? Clubs would wait to see how a player does in the WC. A poor WC rarely really hurts value. A good to great one can skyrocket it

Dominic Schrödinger

8m + Antonio Nunez

Always said we way overpaid. He wasn’t even needed, couldn’t have waited 6 months to get him for free?

Just Gakpo for the first part, followed by cutting in and having his shot blocked?

Frustrating in the build up at times, sure, but again, Salah absolutely LOVED playing with him. Go back and watch some of those Salah goals in the last couple of seasons Nunez was here and see how involved he is. He runs about, creates chances for himself or others. At the most basic level he occupies defenders, which is more than can be said of the current lot.

At 100k/week that’s 10.4m over 2 years. Who are we getting that’s better than Nunez for that? Bear in mind we paid 15m for a similar Chiesa punt for transfer fees alone, plus the wages he was on. You guys act like he didn’t score a bunch of goals here. And a few assists for that matter. His G/A for minutes played was decent. Problem was we wanted/expected more from him. We won’t this time - the idea is to buy him to replicate that - contributions. And some damn important ones at that.

In any case we need more players. Keep Jones and Elliott We need a proper winger or two. f*** knows how Isak is fitness wise, guess we’ll find out. Ekitike won’t be ready for a while. Salah is gone. And then outside that we have Gakpo and Rio. Adding Nunez or Nunez adjacent to the one big winger/forward or two, for the right fee/wages helps with the bodies.

That might be underselling it: https://www.lfchistory.net/players/1398/goals-per-started/false Also set up the Elliott winner vs PSG among other things. Won us the Southampton game as well the title season (guess he started that one; then was promptly dropped by Slot). And the Saudi club stopped playing him because they signed Benzema and have a foreigner limit On a free/cheap and decent wages, he’s an option to have around. Not that Salah will be here anymore but he seemed to love playing with Darwin around running around doing madman things

He creates chances, some that he has no right to create, and given the amount he creates, he’ll still score a few. No one’s saying buy him for crazy money. If he’s free and roughly around the same wages as earlier (which was reasonable), and he’s a temporary stopgap as a not main striker, he’s fine. Basically in our Klopp 4-3-3, he was a perfectly good 4th striker and a great 5th striker (more 90+ min winners or something). The problem was that we expected him to be a lot more than that. Hes a useful main forward but not a good one.

Nunez on a free as cover is a good buy. Regardless of his finishing, if he can buy into the Iraola philosophy and not be shunned by the manager ala Slot, he is going to cause problems for defenders. Thats already a huge a step up from our forwards not running and giving defenders the time of their lives. There’s a reason Salah loved playing with Nunez.

Coutinho and Danny Murphy above Alisson

They planned for Slot to be s*** after winning the league? The warning signs were always there

I think Emery has a ceiling, although a good manager. I’m not sure what Iraola’s ceiling is. The dismissing of Alonso is mad - the guy was 90 minutes away from an unbeaten treble in Germany with a team not named Bayern Munich.