{"id":331403,"date":"2025-08-09T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331403\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:29:10","slug":"darwin-nunez-transfer-liverpool-striker-joins-saudi-pro-league-team-al-hilal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331403\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Nunez transfer: Liverpool striker joins Saudi Pro League team Al-Hilal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Al-Hilal have signed Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez from Liverpool on a three-year contract.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Saudi Pro League side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cz60d2nn5z8o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secured a deal<\/a> worth 53m euros (\u00a346.3m) for the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nunez joined Liverpool in June 2022 from Portuguese side Benfica for an initial fee of \u00a364m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has scored 40 goals in 143 appearances for the Reds but only started eight Premier League games during their title-winning campaign last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Liverpool statement read: &#8220;Everybody at the club would like to thank Darwin for his contributions and wish him and his family all the best for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nunez has joined the Al-Hilal squad on their pre-season training camp in Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His departure may have an effect on Liverpool&#8217;s pursuit of Sweden striker Alexander Isak, with Newcastle having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5yl7epeyv0o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turned down an opening offer<\/a> of \u00a3110m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Al-Hilal have signed Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez from Liverpool on a three-year contract. The Saudi Pro League side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-331403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115000702618105638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331403","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=331403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}