DBasia.news – Former Liverpool striker, Dean Saunders, expressed his concern with the new Reds striker, Darwin Nunez as the match will certainly be different from when he was at Benfica.
The Uruguayan bomber has arrived at Liverpool’s training ground after completing his £85 million transfer from Portuguese giants, Benfica.
However, a former Liverpool striker, who has also played for Benfica, is concerned that the transition from Portugal’s Primeira Liga to the English Premier League will not be easy for Nunez.
“The player looks big, strong, fast and scores goals regularly, perfect! But I’ve played in the Portuguese League, and it feels different playing in the Premier League,” the former striker, who played for Liverpool between 1991 and 1992, told talkSPORT.
“What’s the difference? Honestly, it’s easier there. They set the schedule in a certain way so that each team gets one tough game, one mid-table game and two easy games, otherwise the season could end before Christmas.”
“They arranged the schedule in such a way that at the end of the season all the teams that could win the league, Benfica, Sporting, Porto would have an equal schedule.”
“I played with Nuno Gomez and Joao Pinto, and sometimes they dominated games and scored two or three goals.”
“You don’t get easy goals in the Premier League, but maybe in the league there.”
Although the standard of the Portuguese League is now better and even closer to the level of the top five European leagues, Saunders’ anxiety is not without reason.
Nunez has had a great season in Portugal in the 2021/22 season, with 26 goals from 28 games. But the level of opposition he will face in England is of a higher quality.
Saunders is also worried that Nunez’s arrival will mean the end of the story of Sadio Mane, who is widely rumored to be joining Bayern Munich soon.
But he feels fans should have faith in Jurgen Klopp and his transfer success.
“It’s a bit worrying that they signed him [Nunez], because it looks like one comes in and one goes out,” added Saunders.
“Hopefully not. Hopefully Mane and [Mohamed] Salah don’t leave.”