{"id":56448,"date":"2025-08-09T23:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56448\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:38:06","slug":"liverpool-confirm-departure-of-darwin-nunez-to-al-hilal-could-free-up-bid-for-newcastle-striker-alexander-isak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56448\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool confirm departure of Darwin Nunez to Al Hilal, could free up bid for Newcastle striker Alexander Isak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool sold striker Darwin Nunez to Saudi side Al-Hilal, both clubs confirmed on Sunday morning (AEST), in a move that could allow the Premier League champions to make a fresh bid for Newcastle\u2019s Alexander Isak.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez joined the Reds for an initial 75 million euros (AU$133.88 million, \u00a365 million) from Benfica three years ago but has failed to live up to that price tag.<\/p>\n<p>The Uruguayan scored 40 goals in 143 appearances but slipped down the pecking order at Anfield under both Jurgen Klopp and Arne Slot.<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest football news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=FootballArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up now &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDarwin Nunez played a role in Liverpool winning the league last season, but his move is for the best. Too inconsistent. Wish him the best,\u201d wrote BBC Sport journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CACoates96\/status\/1954281120805392777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Charlotte Coates on X<\/a> in reaction. <\/p>\n<p>According to reports in the British media, Al-Hilal will pay an initial 53 million euros (AU$94.6 million) for the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/content.foxsports.com.au\/fs\/electrode\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl-Hilal Club Company is pleased to announce the signing of Uruguayan striker Darwin Nunez from Liverpool FC on a three-year contract,\u201d Al-Hilal said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez was likely to play even less this season after Liverpool signed Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz as part of a 300 million euro spending spree that also includes full-backs Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong.<\/p>\n<p>However, the club could still break the British transfer record by signing Isak. Liverpool reportedly had a first bid of \u00a3110 million rejected, with Newcastle demanding a fee of up to \u00a3150 million for the Swedish striker.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of Nunez would take Liverpool\u2019s income for transfer sales this window to nearly 200 million euros after the departures of Luis Diaz, Jarell Quansah, Caoimhin Kelleher, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Tyler Morton.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez is the latest big name to join Al-Hilal, who shocked Manchester City to reach the quarter-finals of the recent Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Coached by former Inter Milan boss Simone Inzaghi, the Saudi club\u2019s squad includes Portuguese internationals Ruben Neves and Joao Cancelo, Senegal captain Kalidou Koulibaly and former Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool sold striker Darwin Nunez to Saudi side Al-Hilal, both clubs confirmed on Sunday morning (AEST), in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46595,46584,12033,46586,46596,46592,6232,5247,46585,6246,46589,43,46594,46590,46591,12020,44,1614,6264,46588,46597,41,39,42,40,968,46593,40975,46587],"class_list":["post-56448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-al-hilal-club-company","tag-aleksandar-mitrovic","tag-alexander-isak","tag-british-transfer-record","tag-caoimhin-kelleher","tag-charlotte-coates","tag-club-world","tag-darwin-nunez","tag-euro-spending-spree","tag-football-news","tag-fresh-bid","tag-headlines","tag-internazionale-milano-f-c","tag-kalidou-koulibaly","tag-key-target","tag-luis-diaz","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-price-tag","tag-simone-inzaghi","tag-swedish-striker","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transfer-news","tag-trent-alexander-arnold","tag-tyler-morton","tag-uruguayan-striker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}