The prediction that puts Darwin Núnez as the bust of the season

Hailing from Borussia Dortmund, Erling Haaland has become a sensation not only in the Premier League but around the world in just a few games in a Manchester City shirt, winning a host of accolades by setting new statistical records in English football, being undoubtedly the best reinforcement in the summer market for the Citizen team who are runners-up in the local competition and group leader in the UEFA Champions League.

The Norwegian international's early claim to the title of the Premier League's best new signing has quickly prompted comparisons with other players in the same position, with Darwin Núñez being the one most pointed to as both arrived on British soil in the summer. While City paid just over £50 million to land Haaland, Liverpool had to come up with a fee in the region of £64 million.

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While the City striker has been nothing short of phenomenal at the start of this campaign with 14 league goals and three more Champions League goals, the Uruguay international has not had the best of starts with the Reds, spending much of his time on the bench and much of the talk about his poor form with which he arrived from Portugal. That sort of situation has mentally sapped the Liverpool striker, or at least that's what former defender Jose Enrique thinks, pointing the finger at Haaland as the one to blame for Nunez's under-performance."It's a difficult situation for Nunez and the price Liverpool paid for him and the price City paid for Haaland."

The comparison between the two players at the moment might even be absurd if you look at what they have done so far in the Premier League, but according to the former Reds player, Darwin has not benefited at all in a team where Jürgen Klopp has a penchant for playing with a false nine, even though he knows that his striker is a natural nine. "The team's performance doesn't help and with Klopp, Liverpool always play with a false nine and he's a real number nine.

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Nunez had in the Champions League and against Rangers Scotland that chance to minimally recompose his way with the team from Merseyside, but his lack of consistency and confidence generated by comparisons and criticism have made his display has been regular, continuing with that accumulation of minutes without scoring even and having in the first half at least two clear plays in front of the goal defended by Allan McGregor.