{"id":92762,"date":"2025-05-11T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92762\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:56:08","slug":"liverpool-could-be-handed-transfer-alternative-to-help-with-big-summer-spending-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92762\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool could be handed transfer alternative to help with big summer spending plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darwin Nunez could be spared from weighing up a move to Saudi Arabia and could get the opportunity to move to a title-winning side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> are understandably willing to cash in on Nunez \u2013 or so is widely reported, at any rate \u2013 and the striker has been the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-duo-targeted-136m-double-raid-slot-fsg-disagree-exit-stance-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported interest from the spiritual home of all big-name Premier League players who are not quite good enough for a big eight club, the Saudi Pro League.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A frankly staggering \u00a368m transfer fee has been bandied about in return for Nunez\u2019s services, reflecting the paucity of top strikers across the game at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of that, and heedless of the massive gap in spending power between the Premier League and Serie A, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corrieredellosport.it\/news\/calcio\/serie-a\/napoli\/2025\/05\/09-140542036\/napoli_il_piano_segreto_per_arrivare_a_de_bruyne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corriere Dello Sport report<\/a> that Nunez is part of Napoli\u2019s shortlist as they look for a longer-term successor to Romelu Lukaku. Almost like replacing Victor Osimhen with the 31-year-old Belgian last summer had some drawback or something?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/transfers-clubs-ranked-allure-new-signings-manchester-united-liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u00a0Alexander-Arnold move proves truth Liverpool refuse to accept in ranking of clubs by transfer allure<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-bend-over-real-madrid-one-extraordinary-demand-early-alexander-arnold-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u00a0Liverpool urged to \u2018bend over\u2019 Real Madrid with one \u2018extraordinary\u2019 demand for \u2018early\u2019 Trent deal<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/arsenal-arteta-openly-disliked-staff-liverpool-nonsense-didnt-go-down-brilliantly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u00a0Mikel Arteta \u2018openly disliked by staff\u2019 as report reveals Liverpool nonsense \u2018didn\u2019t go down brilliantly\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, with the Serie A title in sight but not quite secured, Napoli are guaranteed a third straight season of Champions League football and are said to want to strengthen in a bit to make it further than the last 16 next season.<\/p>\n<p>Free agent Kevin De Bruyne is also said to be wanted by Antonio Conte, with Lille\u2019s Jonathan David, Porto\u2019s Samu Omorodion and PSG\u2019s\u00a0 Lee Kang-in making up the rest of their reported wishlist alongside Nunez. Atletico Madrid are also reported to be interested.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Uruguayan joined Liverpool from Benfica in 2022 but has struggled to make his mark on the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez has started just eight league games for Arne Slot\u2019s title-winning side this season, with an additional 19 appearances from the bench.<\/p>\n<p>His modest five-goal yield makes Nunez an obvious high-profile candidate for sale this summer with Liverpool reported to be keen on investing heavily in their squad. Getting a good fee for Nunez would help fund further reinforcements, especially with his wages taken off the balance sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Recruiting upgrades to their forward line is likely to be a priority, with Nunez and Diogo Jota both underwhelming at number 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darwin Nunez could be spared from weighing up a move to Saudi Arabia and could get the opportunity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,8904,393,163,4884,225,179,6277,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-92762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-darwin-nunez","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-home-page","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-napoli","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114489313482011657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92762","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=92762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}