{"id":49849,"date":"2025-08-07T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49849\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:51:11","slug":"why-darwin-nunez-will-become-liverpools-fourth-biggest-sale-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49849\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Darwin Nunez will become Liverpool’s fourth biggest sale ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

40 goals in 143 games\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Why<\/p>\n

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Darwin N\u00fa\u00f1ez<\/a> is on the verge of completing his exit from Liverpool<\/a> after an agreement was reached with Al-Hilal for the Uruguayan striker. The two clubs have agreed on an initial \u20ac53m fee with achievable add-ons include – N\u00fa\u00f1ez is poised to fly to the Middle East to pen a three-year contract. The 26-year-old appeared to waive goodbye to the Anfield faithful after their friendly against Athletic Club on Monday.<\/p>\n

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N\u00fa\u00f1ez has been in fantastic form in pre-season with five goals in four games but his performances have generally been erratic since joining the Merseyside club for \u20ac85 million from Benfica<\/a> in 2022. The attacker has scored 40 goals and provided 26 assists for the Reds across 143 games but he\u2019s likely played his last game for the club – although there\u2019s been reports that he could say farewell in the Community Shield on Sunday at Wembley. Despite his inconsistent performances, N\u00fa\u00f1ez is an incredibly popular figure, amongst fans and teammates, at Anfield and Liverpool are set to recoup a sizable fee for the Uruguay international.<\/p>\n

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\nDarwin Nunez to enter Liverpool\u2019s top ten biggest sales<\/p>\n

Far from resting on their laurels after winning the Premier League<\/a>, Liverpool have built from a position of strength and made several high-profile signings this summer. J<\/a>eremie Frimpong<\/a>, Milos Kerkez<\/a>, Florian Wirtz<\/a> and Hugo Ekitik\u00e9<\/a> have all arrived to the tune of \u20ac308m. Liverpool are the biggest spenders so far this window but they\u2019ve also recouped \u20ac143m in sales, which ranks them third from every club. And as the graphic below shows, N\u00fa\u00f1ez will become Liverpool\u2019s sixth biggest sale in their history when he completes his move to the Saudi Pro League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"Moreover, N\u00fa\u00f1ez will likely rise to their fourth biggest sale if relatively easily achievable add-ons are met to take the overall package to \u20ac65m. Fernando Torres\u2019<\/a> \u20ac58.5m move to Chelsea<\/a> in 2010 and Raheem Sterling\u2019s<\/a> \u20ac63.7m move to Manchester City in 2015 currently occupy fifth and fourth spot but the final fee for N\u00fa\u00f1ez is expected to eclipse both players. Interestingly, three of Liverpool\u2019s top ten biggest sales will arrive this summer after Luis D\u00edaz<\/a> (\u20ac75m) joined Bayern Munich<\/a> and Jarrell Quansah<\/a> (\u20ac35m) moved to Bayer Leverkusen<\/a>. Liverpool\u2019s vast spending this summer has been questioned in some quarters but once Nunez\u2019s move is completed, Arne Slot\u2019s<\/a> net spend will drop to \u20ac112.5 million. That will be the fourth highest of Premier League clubs behind Arsenal<\/a>, Manchester United<\/a> and Man City with Tottenham<\/a>, Sunderland and Cheslea<\/a> not far off Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"40 goals in 143 games\u00a0 \u00a9TM\/IMAGO Darwin N\u00fa\u00f1ez is on the verge of completing his exit from Liverpool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27681,1969,14554,1766,398,1580,27683,2226,218,942,3543,2235,134,1765,399,349,2236,27684,221,14558,22709,27682,101,919,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-49849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-al-hilal-sfc","tag-arne-slot","tag-bayer-04-leverkusen","tag-bayern-munich","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-darwin-nunez","tag-ferran-torres","tag-florian-wirtz","tag-football","tag-hugo-ekitike","tag-jarell-quansah","tag-jeremie-frimpong","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-luis-diaz","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-milos-kerkez","tag-philippe-coutinho","tag-premier-league","tag-raheem-sterling","tag-saudi-pro-league","tag-sl-benfica","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}