Darwin Núñez Player Thread (F)

Not sure folks would've been happy with Nkunku either. Lad is a permanent patient

Not sure folks would've been happy with Nkunku either. Lad is a permanent patient

Nkunku is great but would've been another Keita. Injured more than he is available.

Not fan of our journos slandering him. I think he's getting sold in the summer since Edwards doesn't rate him.

Physically speaking it's all there. Pace, strenght, agility, etc. Mentally speaking, off the ball, its also all there. Mentally speaking, with the ball, quite nothing is there or, if you prefer, most of the time, there's nothing. And it gets worse as the pressure piles up.

His control gets abysmal, not cold enough to assess what's happening around him in terms of where are the defenders and the goalkeeper are. Not cold enough to choose the appropriate finish and all of what finishing in a certain manner implies and even less cold enough to apply the appropriate finish.

I'm not a football manager, but I'm not gonna lie to you, my hopes get lower with him with each game. And it includes the games he scored in because some of his most outrageous sequences of play came in those games.

He might end up being one of those "if only he had xyz attribute" type of player where the potential for greatness is undeniablly there, but the key enabling footballing attributes arent.

Quite exactly my thoughts. I think cold-bloodedness is not a trainable trait, and all great strikers have it. We need a natural finisher as our main center forward, no questions asked.

Nunez is not the problems. Our defense has been sh*t. Can't keep a clean sheet.

Nunez and Salah are both our top scorers and top assisters. Can we score more? Sure! But at a certain people people are becoming comically unrealistic expecting every shot to go in.

We haven't had a clean sheet in 8 games

Nunez is not the problems. Our defense has been sh*t. Can't keep a clean sheet.

Nunez and Salah are both our top scorers and top assisters. Can we score more? Sure! But at a certain people people are becoming comically unrealistic expecting every shot to go in.

We haven't had a clean sheet in 8 games

Correct, you can add a Shity midfield to that as well

Correct, you can add a Shity midfield to that as well

lets say..."unbalanced"

Nkunku is great but would've been another Keita. Injured more than he is available.

Every time I've seen him play for Chelsea he's been crap

Not fan of our journos slandering him. I think he's getting sold in the summer since Edwards doesn't rate him.

What sauce is that

Nunez is not the problems. Our defense has been sh*t. Can't keep a clean sheet.

Nunez and Salah are both our top scorers and top assisters. Can we score more? Sure! But at a certain people people are becoming comically unrealistic expecting every shot to go in.

We haven't had a clean sheet in 8 games

I’m I wrong in saying when we had Gomez starting we were on a winning run?

Don't think he can play through the middle.
Thinking right now that either him or Diaz will go - if Diaz goes, could maybe give Nunez a go down the left.
Otherwise keep Diaz and sell Nunez. Not sure I see us keeping both.
God only knows what the new manager will do though.

Nunez is part to blame but he has been feeding on breadcrumbs

Nunez is part to blame but he has been feeding on breadcrumbs

😂😂😂

He has missed 26 big chances this season alone

Don't think he can play through the middle.
Thinking right now that either him or Diaz will go - if Diaz goes, could maybe give Nunez a go down the left.
Otherwise keep Diaz and sell Nunez. Not sure I see us keeping both.
God only knows what the new manager will do though.

Yeah it's a tricky one. I think we need to bring in a proven goal scorer next season,  just cos Jota is so injury prone. So that would leave us with one forward too many really. So who would go - Gakpo, Nunez or Diaz? Nunez would be the likeliest candidate for me. But I still do think there is a player in there so, maybe I'm just indecisive  but I'd probably keep them all and decide next summer.

But really it probably depends on whether any big offers come in or not. A big offer for Diaz is more likely than one for Darwin right now I would think, so he might be the one to go. I don't think Darwin is as good as Diaz down the left though so if Diaz went I'd probably want a replacement for him as well haha.

If we could sell either of them and bring in Rafael Leao I'd be very happy. But unless we could get a replacement of that quality, I'd not be in a rush to sell either.

Stolen from RAWK but found this post over 2 years ago very interesting

https://x.com/taistofcb/status/1514983927059996681

Basically exactly the red flags were apparent at Benfica before it reared its ugly head at Liverpool, especially with his lack of technique and passing ability. Unfortunately it’s turned out to be true.

Even in Football Manager years ago (yes seriously…) where he was becoming an up and coming striker, about 4 years ago, I remember his technical stats were very low.

Maybe there were some truth to the rumours that there were alarms raised in his first training session at Liverpool.

I desperately want this lad to succeed but I think we must look to cut our losses. He simply does not have the intelligence, technique or composure to succeed here.

His best highlight for todays game...

Stolen from RAWK but found this post over 2 years ago very interesting

https://x.com/taistofcb/status/1514983927059996681

Basically exactly the red flags were apparent at Benfica before it reared its ugly head at Liverpool, especially with his lack of technique and passing ability. Unfortunately it’s turned out to be true.

Even in Football Manager years ago (yes seriously…) where he was becoming an up and coming striker, about 4 years ago, I remember his technical stats were very low.

Maybe there were some truth to the rumours that there were alarms raised in his first training session at Liverpool.

I desperately want this lad to succeed but I think we must look to cut our losses. He simply does not have the intelligence, technique or composure to succeed here.

As few were saying at the time not a good idea to give the manager all the say in transfers.

His best highlight for todays game...

Hahaha Darwin playing peacekeeper.

Arnageddon is on it's way.

Needs moving on. Nowhere near good enough. 2 years of pure frustration, and pure comedy for opposing fans to laugh at.

I dont need nor want to see a 3rd. Diaz can have his 'dream' move to barca. Maybe they can teach him what actually wins games instead of cul-de-sac building.

If there are 3 things from the many issues the new manager needs to sort first ... its the defence, how we start games and a world class no9. Improve those 3 things and we will be on the right path.

There is talent across this squad. But all undermined by being poor at both ends of the pitch.

The problem is that Arsenal and city wont stand still and let us catch up like we did 2 years ago. Both will be even better next season and harder to beat.