£30million would have been ‘too much’ for Darwin Nunez, let alone the ‘ridiculous’ fee Liverpool actually paid. Also: Reds fans are criticised for their booing and Man City fans are called ‘plastic’.

Hey when talking number 9s what’s that line they like to say…  You want your striker to be cool don’t you ?  Fire in the belly and head in the freezer, right

All season long a great many in football have voiced some sentiment along the lines of Darwin Nunez eventually coming good.  Privately, in my own headspace, I’ve scoffed hard at this, especially some of the comparisons being made to Luis Suarez who apart from being his countryman shares nothing remotely similar in profile, ability, tendencies or class.  They may share in abundance that fire in the belly, but the finishing coolness suarez has up top makes a mockery of the decapitated headless chicken storming the Anfield corner flags.  Yet there is this extremely glass-full, feel-good sentiment that appears to prevail, and quite loudly at times.

We keep hearing different mindless cliches coming from all far corners proclaiming that at some point, any point now, Darwin’s goals will come in bunches, that he just needs another full and proper preseason and some time with an English tutor and he’ll be banging them in left right centre and blindfolded.  It’s very possible he will come good, but I can’t see it happening, and I can’t see it happening at Liverpool.

This player’s story arc could be of the infuriating and meandering journeyman’s variety, where he flops, shows a spell, maybe flops again, shows another spell, maybe in his late 20s / early 30s he finds a sustainable foothold towards the top of the game but by then I don’t know if hes at Anfield.  Yes I know it’s early and I full well see he’s got some spectacular attributes, but I’d also known a few birds in my time who had spectacular attributes yet early on, somewhere deep in my gut I knew I just wouldn’t find enough there when it really mattered.

Honestly I feel a bit negative and somewhat guilty putting these thoughts to paper b/c part of me feels they’ll no longer be within just the mental domain I’ve been kicking round my head and will now somehow officially manifest. What stupid thoughts football supporters live with eh.

I hope I am wrong and wrong a thousand times over.  Yet I feel i’ve seen enough to convince he just doesn’t have it, and either he never will or by the time he does he will be long gone, maybe in Germany or back in Portugal, otherwise here but playing for somebody else (that said, Darwin would be money at a club like Leicester or Spurs where a side sit back, drop deep, don’t possess and play off every back foot for 70+ min but will go and spring 5-6 counters a game; he’s got pace to burn and can win you a fair few fixtures solely off what everyone’s saying is the “chaos” he brings, whatever that means). Digressing…

Listen, Darwin Nunez has some truly exceptional attributes required for some truly devastating forward play.  But I just cannot shake the feeling that he will (continue to) disappoint at Liverpool, that we don’t really actually need what he does provide, and all the hollow hopes and praises about the potential and the chaos are simply too far a cry from a real product on the field.  Over the course of rhe season he’s not improved, he’s actually getting worse.  Unless something changes massively (and miraculously ) in his development over the summer I reckon this player will be buried deep deep on the bench maybe trotted out for some of those exotic Thurs evening matches wes got coming