General Premier League Thread 2023-24 Mod Note in op 27/6/23 And 21/05/24

Yeah, I’d be a bit skeptic of whether Darwin can be the real deal for Liverpool. It’s mad how often he shoots straight at the keeper, the chance against Palace last week should have been a goal. But as others said, Jones should have got one or Salah should have got one, to blame him solely is missing the big picture.

His assists are fantastic, his work rate is fantastic, his positioning is generally perfect, but his finishing is awful. I think it seems logical that if he was a better finisher the other forwards wouldn't have had to been ran into the ground if ye were already ahead in games.

Its the same issue with Onana at United their biggest weakness (Onana's case - basic goalkeeping & Nunez - actual finishing) is the actual most important part of their position. It cant really be ignored.

Some amount of hoops being jumped through here. If Salah leaves in the summer who is the “primary forward” at Liverpool?

And what hoops are they exactly? Because people are trying to compare Nunez to Haaland et al and just pretend that Salah doesn't exist?

If Salah leaves next season, and Liverpool line up with Nunez as their primary forward, then you can compare Nunez to the primary forwards at others clubs on how they also do next season. Because there is no manager at the club next season, we don't know how Liverpool will set up, and what players will be there etc.

Can't make head nor tail of it, its Kloppesque.

Simple fact whether 4th 5th 6th choice Nunez has the worst feckin big chance conversion rate in the the top 5 European league at 20%.

The chances are falling to Nunez and he hasn't a bulls notion how to finish them. Someone should really tell Jurgen not to keep giving the non-primary forward the primary chances he cant take.

The same way that Benzema (or Higuain) was Real Madrid's main first choice forward while Cristiano Ronaldo was there yeah? They were 'playing the number 9' there for the majority of Ronaldo's career in Spain.

Is Havertz Arsenal's main forward now? Or is Jesus? Because it if is either of them, then they have bigger problems to face than Liverpool as Nunez is out-performing both. I say that Saka is Arsenal's primary forward and he is not the central forward Arsenal try to get attacks either to him or through him. Was Weghorst Man Utd's main forward last season, because he played central? Or Martial? Is Hojlund the main forward this season? Absolutely not, it's Rashford.

Nunez has 8 assists in the PL this season. 5 of them are to Salah, so there is a clear directive at times there that Liverpool play to Nunez centrally who can then play in Salah for the goal-scoring. It is not too dissimilar to when Firmino is around with using Nunez as the central player who then brings the wide players into the action closer to goal where they can attack the ball better. Firmino used to drop deep and link up there that way but Nunez is more Drogba-esque in terms of being a one man battering ram using his pace and power to take control of more direct balls, or into channels etc. BTW Drogba scored 10 & 12 goals in his first 2 PL seasons. Actually, Drogba's average over his (first) Chelsea stint of 8 seasons was 12 PL goals per season. Nunez is on 9 & 11 so far.

That October to February ish run of games was brilliant and a clear indication of how the attack functioned with Nunez and Salah being a great combo. That game where Liverpool created the most xG ever in a game against Newcastle (Salah scored 2, one assisted by Nunez) and then Chelsea game too. Salah was not available that game, so Nunez then became the primary focus of attacks. Nunez single handedly destroyed the Chelsea defence that night, even while being double marked. He didn't get the goal but he actually was involved in nearly every good attack that night. Think he hit the post a few times in those games, and the keepers made some incredible saves but that all gets forgotten over the course of the season because Liverpool, the team, hit a slump in April

@Fitz* Is Havertz Arsenal's main forward now? Or is Jesus? Because it if is either of them, then they have bigger problems to face than Liverpool as Nunez is out-performing both. I say that Saka is Arsenal's primary forward and he is not the central forward Arsenal try to get attacks either to him or through him.

Arsenal’s biggest problem is that they don’t have one tbh. Yes, they share the goals around and that’s fantastic but in the really tight games they sometimes struggle to find that bit of magic to get it over the line. I thought it would have been a priority this season but I’m looking forward to seeing who comes in to solve that problem for them

That's a very weird statement by Forest l, and it's not their first time either. Nearly every time they are on TV there is a reference to their referee analyst. Lodge your complaint in private if you want to, but going on about what club a VAR supporters and trying initiate a public pile on, from the official club account, is somewhat weird behaviour