{"id":23361,"date":"2022-06-13T07:38:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T07:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=23361"},"modified":"2022-06-13T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T07:38:08","slug":"darwin-nunez-liverpool-reach-agreement-with-benfica-for-uruguay-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/13\/darwin-nunez-liverpool-reach-agreement-with-benfica-for-uruguay-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Nunez: Liverpool reach agreement with Benfica for Uruguay striker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool have reached a deal with Benfica to sign Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez, the Portuguese club have confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Benfica say a fee of 75m euros (\u00a364m), rising to a potential 100m euros (\u00a385m) with add-ons, has been agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nunez, 22, scored 34 times in 41 appearances across all competitions for Benfica last season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liverpool’s record transfer is the \u00a375m paid to sign centre-back Virgil van Dijk from Southampton in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Premier League rivals Manchester United were\u00a0<\/span>reportedly also interested in signing Nunez<\/span>, who cost Benfica 24m euros (\u00a320.5m) when he signed from Spanish side Almeria in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

The striker, who has 11 caps for Uruguay, scored 26 goals in 28 league games in 2021-22 – with 25 of those goals coming in the 24 league matches in which he started.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also scored six times in 10 Champions League games last season, including against Liverpool in both legs of their quarter-final in April.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liverpool won the FA Cup and Carabao Cup last season – along with finishing as Premier League runners-up and losing in the Champions League final.<\/span><\/p>\n

Portuguese 19-year-old Fabio Carvalho became Liverpool’s\u00a0<\/span>first signing of the summer transfer window<\/span>\u00a0in May, with the forward set to officially join from Fulham on 1 July.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Reds have\u00a0<\/span>rejected a deal worth \u00a330m<\/span>\u00a0from Bayern Munich for Senegal forward Sadio Mane who, like the club’s Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, is set to become a free agent next summer if an agreement over a new contract cannot be reached.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brazil forward Roberto Firmino, another key part of Liverpool’s attack during Klopp’s tenure, has also entered the final 12 months of his current deal, while Japan international\u00a0<\/span>Takumi Minamino is attracting interest<\/span>\u00a0from a number of clubs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liverpool have reached a deal with Benfica to sign Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez, the Portuguese club have confirmed. Benfica say a fee of 75m euros (\u00a364m), rising to a potential 100m euros (\u00a385m) with add-ons, has been agreed. Nunez, 22, scored 34 times in 41 appearances across all competitions for Benfica last season. Liverpool’s record […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[5304,1172,5701,2422,8496,1911,7173,5984,3370,7619,7090,10954,2959,5205,6286,197,11252,115,5292,6657,12792,267,2219,818,817,12871,1749,266,10480,7333,5564,3366,4275,594],"class_list":["post-23361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-attack","tag-bayern-munich","tag-benfica","tag-brazil","tag-carabao-cup","tag-champions-league","tag-darwin-nunez","tag-fa-cup","tag-firmino","tag-fulham","tag-games","tag-international","tag-japan","tag-july","tag-klopp","tag-liverpool","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-mane","tag-munich","tag-new-contract","tag-premier-league","tag-roberto","tag-roberto-firmino","tag-sadio-mane","tag-salah","tag-senegal","tag-southampton","tag-spanish","tag-summer","tag-uruguay","tag-van-dijk","tag-virgil-van-dijk","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}