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Players like Pepe could be great, but what they need is 35 Million move to Clubs like Bayern to become world class. A 80€ Million move to the Premier league to a chaos club like Arsenal would kill the career of most young players. In germany, Spain or italy, Young players are given time and trust. In England, if a player does not perform in his first week he already gets slandered by the media and rival fans. Just look at what you stupid english Football Fans did with sancho. The guy has the talent to be a Top 5 Player in the world one day, but united and the media already destroyed him

Lol. Congratulations on 100k! Love your Video Essays.

9 penalties that season

Big difference on who Gooners buy and who Liverpool buy. 👍

Well said. Exactly what I was thinking under Klopp. He will be world class 👍

FairPlay kind words there 👍klopp will work his magic hopefully 🙏

"Turn him into a *savage."* Love it! 😆

Honestly these past couple of years for Benfica and Porto champions league matches have been job interviews for our players 😓

@@thisisakodibox2635 Jorge Mendez effect 😌

Well said and almost exactly what I’ve been saying.

@@Gunjack1440 🤞😬 He'll need and will be given time to blend into the system. Meanwhile it's our job to give him the support while he is learning on the job ❤️

@@Harisankar-ce2vd yep as expected. But he’s got the work rate needed and mentality. That’s half the battle. Positioning and fitness is the other. Actual ability is there in the positioning. Played in a similar pressing system similar to the reds for years. I am fairly optimistic that he will settle in very well.

Very true! I think they also share very explosive sprinting always facing towards the gol.

I think Darwin will be the best player to have when you're 1-0 up, very frustating player to deal with when you're trying to attack because he isn't lazy and will be running around the defenders to create space for the quickest transition for the counter-attack! That obsviously won't be the case when it's 0-0 and opponent is playing very defensive

Yeah it worries me hearing he needs space as some of our problems last season came from well organised defensive teams, like Chelsea. Hopefully he’ll get on the end of crosses in those situations.

@@mellowplace He does have good headers so I think that's not a worry

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@@mellowplace he can make amazing runs into the box to get onto the end of balls in the box even if it’s crowded with defenders.

Thanks for the info; that’s really interesting👌🏻 Klopp loves these sorts of personalities! A six year contract too so a huge commitment by Liverpool which is pretty rare… I was pretty worried by some Benfica supporters who seem to hate him or not rate him at all (saying he’s technically poor, etc) Quite curious; as a Benfica supporter (attempting biases aside), were you more impressed with Luís Díaz or Nunez from the 🇵🇹 league? In your opinion who would you say is the better talent/ more potential? Díaz has been excellent for LFC, very good technically but not proficient in front of goal yet (maybe because of nerves, different systems/ teammates and, I personally think, the higher standard of premier league goalkeeping🤷🏼‍♀️). I was pretty alarmed when we played Porto how bad their keeper was, so maybe that affects how goals replicate across leagues until the player sharpens his finishing... Nunez may not have that issue so much though, as I’ve rarely seen a player chip the ball past Alison like that 😂😭

​@@96s40 For me diaz is better technically, darwin is just more complete, strong a lot like rafael leão but more consistent and with 2 good feet and good long shots If i go with my Bias, we tend to always think the grass of the neighbor is greener. Luiz Diaz carried Porto on his back single handedly when the refries couldn't, Pt league players were terrified of him and often misplayed due to fear of going against him. This made it quite hard to judge but truth is that half season he played for porto this year literally won them the league. Although Diaz was a bit of a late bloomer, the first season was struggling for a place on the s11, the second he was brilliant at times but gone missing on the pitch most often, third was good, fourth was literally him owning the league by legal right. Goes without saying PT league matches are fully rigged so Porto players will always shine brighter since the moment they fall its a penalty while the same can't be said for other teams. As for Darwin, we had less time to see him than we had for Diaz, and Benfica supporters are the best and yet the roughest. The coach during 1 season and a half was a mental mess, the other during the last half was unexperienced. It started badly when we didnt qualify for the CL, but darwin barely had playtime, then it started to go well, peaked at Europa league matches, then Benfica started to not win all matches unlike they should as foresaid on the 11th amendment. This angered Benfica supporters who then took it to social media. Darwin and Everton had to deactivate social media for a while and that was basically the first half of the season benfica was just full of ups and downs, refs would team played some morbid matches now and then, refs would decide our defeat in others and Darwin was in the middle trying to adapt, then the injury came and his performances also dropped, 1 out of each 5 matches was well executed. We started to see him as a non crucial piece for the team and then by the end of the season he announced he was having the surgery. Took him long time to be back, so we basically forgot we had him in our team and went on playing a new season. He essentially missed the start of the season and yet had such high numbers. But as soon as he got back, from the very first match, he was a different beast and that just lasted till the end of the season. Unlike with Felix, I'm not worried for Darwin, he hasn't got any arrogance in him, he's mentally strong, his mindset can't be brought down easily, you wont see him crying in a corner if he gets told something he doesn't like. Just (and god forbid) keep his knee safe and let him do his thing u can put him on at the 85th minute, he will be happy to play and just full sprint till the match ends. Hardly anyone at benfica worked harder than him this year and that's something the fans can't contest. They called him clumsy , he went on to score bangers, called him distracted offside sometimes, now he gains 15meters in a half pitch run against a defender. Said he wasnt a good target man, he learned how to do some hold up play. Said he couldnt head the ball, he scored many headers this year. Dude actually takes criticism the right way, he will say ye ur kinda right i should work on that. And then he does, and he's smart with it. The ratio he improves at should eventually see him surpassing diaz and other players at liverpool should he stay healthy

@@96s40 As for the goalkeepers, Porto has 2 good GKS, maybe they did a bad match only. Benfica GK worries me more, dude is brilliant between the posts, but has 2 left foots turned backwards and a 5 sec delay when he needs to leave the goal line. Watch the goals liverpool scored vs benfica. our GK just cant leave the posts to save his life

@@yurimpass Excellent reply thanks👍🏻But bloody hell, you’ve got me worried about his knee😳😮‍💨 yeah I read somewhere he had his UCL surgery at 17, then later had a injury to the same knee, needing surgery but he had kept playing through until he couldn’t anymore (really hope that hasn’t done any long term damage😰). That’s not what you want to hear at all so it’s actually very impressive he is still so fast… and unless I’m wrong though, he hasn’t actually missed that many games in the past 2 seasons through injury🤷🏼‍♀️ Yeah makes sense now you’ve explained the context because I did wonder why many Benfica fans are so harsh with him considering he’s been there two seasons and one he was the league’s top scorer! Everyone saying he’s “bad technically” but he didn’t look that way against Liverpool to be honest 😂🤷🏼‍♀️ Liverpool normally do a huge amount of analysis and background checks/ references on players so I was kind of surprised they bought someone so young/ raw for that kind of fee when we are usually very tight with our spending, especially as he was hugely outperforming his XG this season. This is something Liverpool would usually approach with a lot of caution Read that his goal conversion rate is absolutely crazy (like 30%), higher than any of the best strikers in Europe, which was the part which kinda made me wonder if he’s a good finisher but has very inflated numbers because the goalkeepers in the league are just poor and palming the ball into their own net😂 Recently saw that the old President of Benfica (Luís Vieira? The one who was arrested for corruption and 💵 laundering I think) said he would never have let Nunez go for under €150M… 🤯So yeah I think a lot of outsiders don’t see what kind of madness goes on behind the scenes with coaches and board members etc, because that statement seemed a bit mental to everyone else lol

​@@96s40 Yeah vieira was a problem, those huge sales always came with drawbacks. did sell players for 125m, but 100 of those disappear within years and everyone wondered where the money at. There were also cases where he had the opportunity to sell players like carlos vinicius for 75M, then he didnt want coz he thought not enough €, so he waited, then covid came, and his form dropped, now we cant even get 10M for him. But, unlike Portos president who litterally got caught in match fixing phonecalls, there's no sporting physical evidence for vieira, just a couple e-mails that no one's really sure who wrote. For the knee, it is like new surgeons said, thats actually a lucky thing he ended up at benfica to have his surgery rather than any spanish club. The quality diff on our medical staff leaves any from la liga and league 1 on the dust. for the conversion rate, both benfica and darwin tend to create few but good opportunities. U will hardly ever see darwin shoting from outside the box, but when he does he likely scores. Same for headers, he might do 1 or 2 per match, but one of them puts the ball in. He often passes it or gets a corner if he?s not able to score, doesn't do a salah and try the impossible sometimes: For why Benfica fans dont rate him, ye we basically forgot he was part of the team since the bad form was followed by a surgery. This year is true he was a beast, but we lost everything. So normally certain fans will still say stuff. But he showed up in every big match, scored against everyone except porto coz they pause the frame when the ball is at 50cm of the feet of the passer and then say darwin is 2cm offside (happened 2ice not even joking). So technically he did score in all big matches

Same! But unfortunately, it won't happen. Or at least not in the decades. to come.

They would be one of the best teams in the world if their best players did not leave every year. Imagine if they still had players like Oblak, Ederson, Bernardo Silva, Ruben Dias, Cancelo, Joao Felix, Renato Sanchez, Nelson Semedo, Di Maria, and so on.

Yeah. But I'm not sure anyone can compete with Dortmund when it comes to losing insanely talented young players.

personally, i really hope not. i dislike Benfica and absolutely do not want/like them doing well 😹

some of these players have left a while ago but let me give you a starting eleven: Goalkeeper - Ederson or Oblak Right Back - Nélson Semedo Left back - João Cancelo Center backs - Rúben Dias and Victor Lindelöf CDMs - Witsel and Renato Sanches(Matíc as a backup) CAM/Second Striker - João Félix Right Wing - Bernardo Silva Left Wing - Gonçalo Guedes(Dí Maria on the bench) Striker - Darwin Overall, this is a very solid team. I wouldn't say it has what it takes to win a champions league. Nélson Semedo and Guedes very much seem like weak links here. This is a 4-2-3-1 so maybe someone has a better formation where we can play maybe without wingers since we only have bernardo as a true talent there.

Check out Adrian's first video on Darwin from back in March for his background. He'll fit right in personality wise.

He's good I just don't understand how people compare him to Haaland.

@@siya___7776 age and position

@@mattyreynolds4243 but Nunez has 1 good season Haalaand is a beast 🤨

@@siya___7776 but they are both young and strikers.. that’s why people compare

@@mattyreynolds4243 true 😁😂

I don't believe for a second that Klopp accepted to pay this amount of money for just one good season and he probably scouted him for years before deciding to sign him. Remember, Benfica paid 24 mil for him to a Spanish 2nd division team, so he wasn't exactly unknown 2 years ago. The scout departments of elite clubs like Liverpool already have detailed files on futures starts that we never heard of yet.

Well it sounds huge 100 million but if you break down, liverpool "ONLY" pay slightly less than £ 70 million upfront, then another further £ 15 million (only activate if certain conditions met) to be paid at the end of the season. Now for someone who has 1 really good season, being priced at 60 something million or 70 million isn't extremely expensive especially these days

@@GREGGFOWL Same with Tchouameni basically

Well, being a Liverpool, with Mane leaving (sadly😢), I do feel urgent need of replacement that can be slot into the team and accustomed with our system and in the meantime ,Darwin is highly sought after by big teams, it's no surprise with the transfer fee

@@GREGGFOWL "Now for someone who has 1 really good season, being priced at 60 something million or 70 million isn't extremely expensive especially these days" Like I said, I don't think Klopp and Liverpool's board was "wooow we never heard about this Benfica player before but he just scored 6 goals in the Champions League and played really well against us. Let's prepare a 70M€ check and grab this kid". Top clubs simply don't do that when they decide to sign promising young players for massive fees (well, probably except PSG). Liverpool certainly had their eyes on him since he was in Uruguay, followed his development for years and decided to go for him after seeing what he can do at elite level. They were probably interested on Darwin long before and the last season was just a confirmation sign for Klopp. Scouting departments are expensive, even for top clubs, but at the same time they're considered essential (to the point even small clubs have theirs). If your only job is to scout future stars all around the world, you probably won't make your reports based on who's buzzing on CL or UKposts.

I'll have to read it first!

Lol he comes from EPL..his shit is different

Yes. He seem like a player who could be affected alot with pressure. But the solution to this is Klopp. He is the biggest man manager there is. He will support him to succeed

Fair point but I’d say he dealt with a lot of high profile opponents in the champions league and didn’t seem too nervous. The way he chipped Alisson- who’s normally exceptional 1v1 😭 I get what you’re saying but he’ll have a lot of Portuguese speakers around him too, so hopefully that helps the transition. Klopp is a very good man manager

@@96s40 Portuguese speakers? Why is that important? He is from Uruguay - they speak Spanish!

I am a Benfica fan and that's also my biggest concern about him. I remember when we signed him, he struggled a bit to start scoring consistently and lost confidence in his goal scoring ability. So he basically started to pass a lot, even when he was in a good position to score, and he ended up the season with an uncommon number of assists for a #9 (12 assists in 20/21 and most of them in the beginning of the season). He's an extremely talented player with a very rare skill set (physique, speed, instinct) but he needs to improve his mental strength to survive the Premier League. He needs to believe he's a star in the making and I believe Klopp can help him with that.

Maybe if he was at any other club but Liverpool, Liverpool fans don’t turn on players that quickly.

Yep I've been thinking he has a hint of Torres about him

It’s also the hair.

@Darth Vader stronger maybe idk about faster. Idk that he will have the instant 30 goals a season impact torres had, but if liverpool stick to developing him, he'll be good in the long run

The portuguese Liga has NEVER been exciting. It's slow and boring, with terrible football, terrible defending, zero tactics, no intensity and barely any speed of play. There's some good talents here and there occasionally but that's about it. Most of them are terrible players like Joao Mario.

Brendan's fault for letting Stevie go, we could've witness this under Klopp and I'm sure Stevie wouldnt mind playing under Klopp for couple of season

Salah started pretty well but after a few months he wasnt only good but played at a level of one of the best players in Europe

Salah scored a goal on his debut for Liverpool and scored 43 goals in total in that first season, winning PFA player of the year. Not exactly a slow start!

You’re not even close about salah. Lots of your points stand though.

Actually if Darwin starts slow it's over for Liverpool,, cause Tottenham, Chelsea, Man City won't be waiting for him to pick up form... Remember Mane won't be there to rescue you guys, Nunez is no Mane you just lost a Diamond and replaced it with a rock it's hard but not worth anything.

Nunez is gonna jump ahead of Jota, it's gonna be Diaz-Nunez-Salah.... In training he's gonna show Klopp why he has to start him

Very kind of you to say so! Now you've put ME in a good mood.😘

Won't happen. Klopp doesn't want wingers below 175cm who can't attack the ball with headers by cutting in. And his numbers last season were terrible compared to the previous season. Liverpool usually signs players whose numbers improved in the last 3 seasons.

I think it's no secret Liverpool's main target in midfield is Bellingham. It is said Dortmund are not willing to part with him in the same season as Haaland, understandably. Next summer there is no way we will be able to buy him since then he will be the biggest transfer target of the biggest clubs who will prices Liverpool out of any deal. I suggest we make Dortmund a good offer for Bellingham on 6 year contract with 1st year to be loaned back to Dortmund. Buy another midfielder(truly bizarre Liverpool didn't haul in Bissouma now that Tottenham just signed for only 25 million). Don't forget that Liverpool will be getting like 100 million pounds in player sales this season with Mane, Ox, Minamino, Neco and Nat Phillips almost all certainly leaving this summer, with even some others leaving. Next season will test the squad depth with the introduction of 5 subs. This will further strengthen City and Chelsea as they have pretty deep squads and deep pockets

Carvalho is not Minamino's replacement. One is a winger while Carvalho doesn't play on the wing, only behind the strikers. He doesn't have the speed to play as a winger, especially with how Liverpool plays. He's an advanced midfielder which is the one type of MF Liverpool was missing for their 3 man midfield.

@@FuzzyDlop how do you know he is not fast enough ?

ilu2 big Dan

@the illegitimate TY SON Klopp bought lewa for what price? 4.5m only. Klopp manager that transform him. Pep only buy player who already make a name.

That was a (stupid and also bad) joke.😬 I have another channel but it's dead in the water. I think it was called AdrianRTV?

Ok man stick to football comedy ain't your thing😂 Much love brother 🙏

Minamino

​@@randyschwaggins minamino won us 2 trophys last season. he will be missed