{"id":32189,"date":"2025-04-19T06:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/32189\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T06:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:01:11","slug":"liverpool-boss-arne-slot-rejects-claims-darwin-nunez-was-involved-in-training-ground-bust-up-after-under-fire-star-was-dropped-for-west-ham-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/32189\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool boss Arne Slot REJECTS claims Darwin Nunez was involved in training ground bust-up after under-fire star was dropped for West Ham win"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Darwin Nunez was left out of Liverpool&#8217;s squad to beat West Ham last week\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>The Uruguayan &#8216;didn&#8217;t feel himself&#8217; the day before the game, Arne Slot claimed<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>LISTEN NOW: <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailymail.lnk.to\/its-all-kicking-offDM\">It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!<\/a> Should Marcus Rashford leave Man United to spearhead Aston Villa&#8217;s attack?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-190\/lewis-steele.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LEWIS STEELE<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  17:30 EDT, 18 April 2025   |  Updated:  17:30 EDT, 18 April 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/arne-slot\/index.html\" id=\"mol-9a36fab0-1c93-11f0-ac9e-3ba133e04f6d\" rel=\"noopener\">Arne Slot<\/a> has denied rumours that <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/liverpool\/index.html\" id=\"mol-9a34fee0-1c93-11f0-ac9e-3ba133e04f6d\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> striker <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/darwin-nunez\/index.html\" id=\"mol-9a383330-1c93-11f0-ac9e-3ba133e04f6d\" rel=\"noopener\">Darwin Nunez<\/a> had a training ground bust-up last week \u2014 but said his omission from the squad was not due to illness or injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Uruguayan sat in the stands and was not named as a substitute for the Reds\u2019 win over <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/west-ham-united\/index.html\" id=\"mol-9a365e70-1c93-11f0-ac9e-3ba133e04f6d\" rel=\"noopener\">West Ham<\/a> after gossip circulated that he had been involved in a heated scenario at training the day before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But Slot says this is not true and when asked about Nunez, insisted: \u2018He didn&#8217;t feel himself the day before the match, and he went inside and he wasn&#8217;t able to be part of the team the day after.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The boss said the 25-year-old will be back in the squad on Sunday against Leicester but when pushed on how he did not feel himself, said: \u2018That can mean multiple things, yes. He didn&#8217;t feel himself.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Pushed on whether he had words with a member of staff, he said: \u2018No, he didn&#8217;t. He did leave the pitch because he didn&#8217;t feel himself.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Asked if this meant he was ill, Slot added: \u2018As in he didn&#8217;t have words with a staff member.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-234d0a0746b43fcf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97442481-0-image-a-32_1745007353340.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Arne Slot rejected claims Darwin Nunez was dropped as a result of a training ground bust up\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Arne Slot rejected claims Darwin Nunez was dropped as a result of a training ground bust up<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f97449fcabc75bd7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97444097-0-image-a-33_1745007669463.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Gossip circulated that he had been involved in a heated altercation at training the day before\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Gossip circulated that he had been involved in a heated altercation at training the day before<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-185b78b64e6438b2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97444129-0-image-a-34_1745007765645.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Nunez's Reds future is unclear with Saudi Arabian and European clubs keeping tabs on him\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Nunez&#8217;s Reds future is unclear with Saudi Arabian and European clubs keeping tabs on him<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Nunez has an uncertain future at Liverpool with Saudi Arabian clubs and some on the continent keeping tabs on his situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Meanwhile, Liverpool could win the title on Sunday \u2014 if Arsenal lose at Ipswich and the Reds win at Leicester \u2014 but Slot says he is not thinking about that and all he is focused on is victory at the King Power Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He is delighted that Virgil van Dijk signed his new contract, though, and said: \u2018You know how important he is when you see him play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I have not worked with a player like him in terms of leadership. The energy he brings, how professional he is, tries to influence his team-mates.\u2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Trent Alexander-Arnold has completed two days of training and could make the substitutes bench after missing a month with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Liverpool boss Arne Slot REJECTS claims Darwin Nunez was involved in training ground bust-up after under-fire star was dropped for West Ham win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darwin Nunez was left out of Liverpool&#8217;s squad to beat West Ham last week\u00a0 The Uruguayan &#8216;didn&#8217;t feel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1121,748,92,8904,393,94,4884,179,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-32189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-arne-slot","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-darwin-nunez","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-liverpool","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114363110704992899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32189","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=32189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}