Liverpool have been told that the signing of Darwin Nunez would see the club have two rather familiar players rolled into one.
Liverpool have reached an agreement with Benfica for the transfer of the 22-year-old. The Portuguese club confirmed in the early hours of Monday morning that a deal worth a potential £85m (€100m) had been struck.
Should the full £85m be paid to Benfica - with the initial fee being £64.1m plus a potential £21.3m in add-ons - then Nunez would become Liverpool’s record signing.
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And the striker has been given a glowing reference from the man who gave him his big break.
Leonardo Ramos, who is a former coach of Uruguayan club Penarol, handed Nunez his professional debut back in 2017 as an 18-year-old.
And his ex-manager believes Nunez has similar abilities to his Uruguay international team-mates Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani. Suarez, of course, is formerly of Liverpool, scoring 82 goals in 133 appearances for the club.
“He has a similar style to Cavani, but it seems to me that Darwin is faster and more powerful,” Ramos is quoted telling La Pagina.
“He is much more explosive and apart from that explosiveness he obviously showed incredible goalscoring ability. He has two parts, he is half and half between Suarez and Cavani.
“He has the power that Suárez had to go for it all, to go to the clash and fight with the rival. And he also has the part of Cavani, of being a much more athletic player, more physical, more intelligent.
“I think he is a union of those two things.”
