{"id":265342,"date":"2025-07-14T22:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265342\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T22:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:37:09","slug":"rumour-mongering-al-hilal-turn-focus-to-liverpool-striker-darwin-nunez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265342\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour Mongering: Al Hilal Turn Focus to Liverpool Striker Darwin Nu\u00f1ez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The assumption heading into the summer was that Liverpool<\/a> striker Darwin Nu\u00f1ez was ready to call time on his Merseyside stay, having suffered a regression in year three at the Premier League club under manager Arne Slot.<\/p>\n

His departure was considered such a foregone conclusion that it was surprising to see the Reds kick off their pre-season on Sunday against Preston with Nu\u00f1ez in the squad. A focus on staying in Europe and a failure by Atletico Madrid<\/a> and\u2014so far at least\u2014Napoli to meet Liverpool\u2019s asking price means he\u2019s still with the Reds.<\/p>\n

Now, though, Saudi Pro League side Al Hilal may be preparing a push to convince Nu\u00f1ez, with local reports<\/a> suggesting they have made contact with the player and Liverpool. Rather intriguingly, they also speak of a supposed \u20ac60M AC Milan<\/a> bid this summer.<\/p>\n

Napoli\u2019s interest has been well documented in Italy, as had been Atleti\u2019s in Spain earlier in the summer. If Milan are not only interested but have made a formal offer\u2014one in excess of the \u20ac55M Napoli are rumoured to be willing to pay\u2014that\u2019s news.<\/p>\n

In January, it was Saudi side Al-Nassr trying to sign Nu\u00f1ez. And at the time, it appeared the main stumbling block was Liverpool\u2019s unwillingness to sell without a replacement lined up rather than any particular hesitance on Nu\u00f1ez\u2019 part.<\/p>\n

Reports this summer have pointed to a player who at 26 years of age is prioritizing staying in a top European league, though, so it\u2019s hard to say which way this story might move. It will also be interesting to see whether that suggestion of a Milan bid might lead to anything\u2014assuming, of course, that Milan actually made one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The assumption heading into the summer was that Liverpool striker Darwin Nu\u00f1ez was ready to call time on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8815],"tags":[18687,748,41227,393,101259,27110,163,4884,101257,179,1596,18232,101256,101258,38235,101255,52760,5598,6093,25034,57961,16,15],"class_list":["post-265342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liverpool","tag-al","tag-britain","tag-darwin","tag-england","tag-ez","tag-focus","tag-front-page","tag-great-britain","tag-hilal","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-fc-transfer-news","tag-liverpool-transfer-news-rumours","tag-mongering","tag-nu","tag-offside","tag-rumour","tag-striker","tag-the","tag-to","tag-transfer-rumors","tag-turn","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114853985887254324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}