Darwin Nunez isn’t any scientific finisher – Arsenal have already got sufficient gamers which are nervous in entrance of objective.
That is the view of ex-Watford striker Troy Deeney, who nonetheless believes the 25-year-old has what’s takes to succeed at Liverpool.
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Now in his third season at Anfield since becoming a member of from Benfica in 2022 in a deal rising to £85million, Nunez has struggled for consistency.
He has scored 39 targets in 131 video games in all competitions, however is but to attain greater than 11 in a single Premier League season.
From his 86 top-flight appearances, he has missed a whopping 51 massive probabilities – the most recent being away at Aston Villa within the thrilling 2-2 draw.
The Uruguay worldwide has come below intense criticism after lacking an open objective from six yards – failing to get his effort heading in the right direction.
With many Reds followers beginning to change into annoyed by their main man, it has led to questions as as to whether he might be moved on this summer time.
And with Arsenal available in the market for a brand new centre-forward, pundits have speculated whether or not they might flip their consideration to Nunez.
However Deeney has insisted the Gunners, who have been toothless in Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to West Ham, have to herald a confirmed objective machine as a substitute.
Pressed as as to whether a transfer to Arsenal would work for each events, Deeney advised talkSPORT.com: “No. I do not see that.
“As a result of what Arsenal want is a killer, any individual like [Alexander] Isak or [Erling] Haaland, since you want any individual on the top of it.
“I’ve labored on so many Arsenal video games [for talkSPORT commentary] this season.
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“When [Gabriel] Martinelli goes via, or Raheem [Stering] and even [Kai] Havertz, there’s by no means a sense of, ‘Objective’.
“It is at all times such as you’re on the sting of your seat, you are undecided [if they will score].
“And I feel Arsenal simply want that killer.
“And I do not imagine he is [Nunez] that killer at this second in time.”
Whereas Deeney is of the assumption that Nunez does not enhance Arsenal, he maintains that he nonetheless has a future in Merseyside and have to be stored on past the summer time – insisting he’s the proper teammate.
Requested whether or not Liverpool ought to preserve Nunez for not less than one other season, the 36-year-old remarked: “All of it relies on what would you like from him?
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“Are you anticipating him to be a 25-30 goal-a-season [striker]? If that is the case then completely [he should be sold], I am unable to defend him in that route.
“However I am saying as a teammate, he works onerous, he does every part for the staff, his link-up play is respectable, he simply misses massive probabilities.
“And for those who’re trying on the panorama of quantity 9’s, purely No. 9s in the intervening time, what number of of them are there which are actual goalscorers?
“Not many anymore, everybody does a little bit little bit of every part, I simply assume you have to work with him.
“And all you have to work on with him is his ending and his psychological strategy to it, when it comes to whenever you miss a shot, don’t fret you are able to do it once more.
“He is simply had a little bit of a stinker of a 12 months, he retains lacking massive probabilities, however he is popped up with massive targets.”
Nunez hasn’t discovered the again of the web since his late heroics away at Brentford on January 18 the place his double secured a vital 2-0 victory.
And he might be gunning to return to kind in Sunday’s conflict away at Manchester Metropolis on Sunday as Liverpool look to tighten their grip on the Premier League title.
Arsenal might have reduce their result in 5 factors ought to they’ve emerged victorious over the Hammers.
However the Reds can now go 11 factors clear on the high ought to they win on the Etihad within the top-flight for the primary time since 2019.
