Liverpool fans have expressed their excitement for the upcoming season after Darwin Nunez reported for the first day of pre-season.
Footage emerged of the Uruguayan talisman sharing an embrace with manager Jurgen Klopp as the Reds players returned to the AXA Training Centre in preparation for the upcoming season.
Nunez missed the conclusion of the previous campaign with a toe injury which scuppered his involvement with Marcelo Bielsa's first international fixtures as La Celeste manager. As a result, the 24-year-old was among the first contingent to return to Merseyside ahead of their pre-season trips to Germany and southeast Asia before concluding at Preston North End's Deepdale against SV Darmstadt.
It was a rollercoaster campaign for the striker, netting nine times in the Premier League - 15 in all competitions. But his performances were never far from the conversation after his summer move thrust him under the spotlight.
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The video, posted by Liverpool, excited fans as last season's marquee signing looked in good spirits to be reuniting with the German. It was a warm reception from both sides as Nunez looks to get off to a fast start next season as the tactician mulls over the best system to fit in his four forwards.
Fans took to Twitter and made a series of positive predictions that this season could be the beginning of the Uruguayan's purple patch on Merseyside.
Klopp made his intentions on the striker abundantly clear before the curtain closed on their difficult season. The 56-year-old insisted that there was more to come.
He said of the forward: "There's a lot more to come. That's clear. He needs time to settle. The most difficult thing for a striker is to come into a team that is not clicking.
"Imagine if he played for us in a good season, an 80-point or more season, he would have scored more goals, definitely. But it is like now each situation we created and we miss it and it is a more high level.
"Mo Salah, in his best season when he scored 40-odd goals, missed chances. That's normal. Erling Haaland [has] missed chances. But they had much more than we created in this period. Fifteen goals is absolutely fine.
"There are still three games to go so possibly he can increase that number as well. He had time to adapt at Benfica and there was no language issue, or less than it is here. We tried to help him so he can help us even more than he did already."
