Uruguayan international Darwin Nunez joined Liverpool from Benfica in the summer of 2022 after scoring a huge amount of goals in Portugal. Although he failed to settle into the Premier League in his first season with the club, his scoring production improved dramatically last season with 18 goals and 13 assists in 54 games.
This season, the 25-year-old striker is aiming to develop further as a centre-forward with manager Arne Slot, but at the moment he has given up his starting place to Diogo Jotta and is spending more and more time on the bench, and his scoring rate is also slowing down.
According to CaughtOffside, if the Uruguayan forward fails to develop, Liverpool are open to selling him, with Sporting forward Viktor Gyökeres, who has been scoring in Liga Bewin for the last season, being the leading candidate to replace him.
Since joining Sporting from Coventry in July 2023, he has been scoring goals at a phenomenal rate, scoring 43 goals in 50 appearances last season. He has not slowed down this season, scoring 10 goals in seven domestic league games.
He has also scored 10 goals in 22 games for Sweden, finding the net once every two games. With performances worthy of the striker’s name, he has transformed himself into a force to be reckoned with by the best clubs.
The Stockholm-born forward is under contract until June 2028 and will require a lot of money to acquire in next summer’s transfer market. It is unlikely that Liverpool will spend the bulk of their budget on a centre-forward, and if they do, it will only be a left-footed right winger who could be Mohamed Salah’s successor.
The Uruguayan striker is only 25 years old and still has room to develop, so it seems unlikely that Liverpool would swap strikers, but what do you think…!