Liverpool Asked For Price If Barcelona Wanted Darwin Nunez

Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez. (liverpool.com)

JAKARTA - Liverpool asked for a fairly high price for striker Darwin Nunez, which Barcelona is interested in. Liverpool's price is set at 85 million euros or approximately 1.4 trillion rupiah.

Barca are looking for a replacement for Robert Lewandowski who will be released at the end of this season.

Although Vitor Roque still has a current coating of Lewandowski, Barca prefers to hunt down players to replace the Poland national team striker.

On the other hand, Roque will be sold off even though the Brazilian striker only joined in January 2024. In fact, Barca had to spend 30 million euros to buy Roque.

This is still plus various bonuses to be paid and the figure can reach 31 million euros.

Nunez was also Barca's target. Barca's transfer plan, although currently it still has to solve financial problems because it is in debt that cannot be separated from the closeness of Jorge Mendes, Nunez's agent with Barca President Jan Laporta,

Reportedly Mendes was behind Nunez's move to Barca. Mendes hopes his client leaves Liverpool.

"Mendes wants him to leave Liverpool. He thinks his players have high scores," Sport reported.

Not only that, but Mendes also assured Laporta that Liverpool did not mind releasing Nunez. Even the Reds have asked for the price for the sale of this Uruguayan national team player.

"Harga Nunez terus menjaik selama beberapa tahun terakhir. Liverpool tidak akan menjual dia di bawah 85 juta euro," dijelas Sport.

The high price is difficult to reach Barca. The solution, the Spanish La Liga club had to sell some players before buying Nunez.

Barca actually had already targeted Nunez while still playing in Almeria. Even the price requested by Almeria is very cheap, only 8 million euros.

The reason was that at that time Almeria was still playing in Liga 2. Barca Sports Director Ramon Planes had agreed to the price.

But coach Ronald Koeman vetoed the deal. According to him, Nunez is not the right choice for Barca.

Benfica who then got Nunez. Almeria can even sell it for 34 million euros. Benfica only took two years to make Nunez a valuable player.

When recruited by Liverpool, Nunez's price had reached 85 million euros. He also became the club's most expensive signing. Only Nunez could only give Liverpool the Carabao Cup and Community Shield titles.

Now, Liverpool are setting the same price as when they brought Nunez. The price has increased many times compared to when Barca were about to buy it from Almeria.