Darwin Nunez isn't the first Liverpool signing that Jurgen Klopp and club hierarchy disagreed on
Before his social media deleting spree, Darwin Nunez had already made recent headlines with Liverpool.
First suffering a muscle injury against Brentford in February, which ruled him out of the League Cup final, and then carrying a further issue into the March international break as he withdrew from Uruguay duty, the striker arguably hasn’t looked the same for the Reds since.
While he boasts an impressive total of 18 goals and 13 assists from 52 appearances this season, the 24-year-old has scored just once from his last 11 outings - and that inadvertently went in off his backside when chasing down the goalkeeper against Sheffield United.
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Producing a number of glaring misses in recent weeks, his form and finishing abilities have come under increasing scrutiny. Losing his place in Jurgen Klopp’s starting XI as a result, he has started just one of Liverpool’s last five matches.
With the German stepping down as manager this summer, Nunez’s long-term future at Anfield has also been called into question. After all, reports last month, off the back of his recent performances, offered a reminder of how the striker had actually been a ‘Klopp signing’ with the club’s recruitment team instead favouring Christopher Nkunku.
While Liverpool would opt for Nunez, bringing him in from Benfica in a deal worth up to a club-record £85m in June 2022 after a 34-goal season for the Portuguese giants, Nkunku ended up staying at RB Leipzig for a further year. After scoring 35 goals in 2021/22, he would follow it up with a further 23 goals last season to earn an
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