Jurgen Klopp urges fans to be patient with £140,000-a-week Liverpool player

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Jurgen Klopp has urged Liverpool supporters to be patient with Darwin Nunez, with the Uruguayan attacker enduring a mixed first year in England.

Speaking to the press via Anfield Watch, the Anfield boss opened up about the 23-year-old’s struggles this season having joined Liverpool last summer in a deal potentially worth £85m, with Nunez scoring just 15 goals in all competitions despite the money spent.

With Manchester City’s Erling Haaland joining in the same window and breaking every goalscoring record in the book, there’s already a debate on whether Nunez’s time at Liverpool can be considered a waste of money considering how good his Norwegian counterpart has been.

However, Klopp has poured a cool bucket of reality onto the situation with his latest backing of Nunez, who in realistically has done well in a new country for a team that have not been hitting the right notes for the majority of the season.

Klopp said on Nunez’s form this season: “Strikers need time to settle. It’s so difficult to come into a team which isn’t clicking. Darwin would have scored 20+ goals had we been having a normal season. He needs time to adapt – he had that at Benfica and there was no language issue.”

Klopp right to back Nunez heading into second year with Liverpool

With a potential £85m transfer fee and reported wages of £140,000, it’s easy to get lost in the numbers and to think that Nunez has been a flop for Liverpool, but as Klopp mentioned, the move has been a big one for the player himself, and next season could see the attacker really come into his element.

As we know, Nunez last summer moved to a new division and culture that he is completely unfamiliar with, and Liverpool and Klopp know that they have to be patient with the former Benfica man if they’re to get the best out of him, which could easily be next season.