Al Hilal sign Darwin Nunez from Liverpool

Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez completes $62m determination from Premier League champions Liverpool to Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal.

The Saudi Arabian shot league has secured its latest marquee signing aft Darwin Nunez completed the determination from Liverpool to Al Hilal connected Saturday.

The Uruguay planetary outgo a reported 46.3 cardinal pounds ($62m) and has signed a three-year contract.

Al Hilal, Saudi Arabia’s astir palmy team, has been searching for different prima signing aft releasing Brazil large Neymar successful January.

Manchester United skipper Bruno Fernandes rejected a determination earlier the Club World Cup successful June, and determination was besides reported involvement successful erstwhile Napoli striker Victor Osimhen.

Nunez leaves Liverpool aft a mixed clip successful the Premier League, wherever helium produced immoderate spectacular moments but could not found himself arsenic the Merseyside club’s first-choice centre forward. He scored 40 goals successful 143 games and won the Premier League title past season.

But helium made lone 1 league commencement from the crook of the twelvemonth and scored conscionable 7 goals successful 47 full appearances past term.

In a summertime erstwhile Liverpool has reinforced its onslaught with the signings of Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz, on with involvement successful Newcastle striker Alexander Isak, Nunez’s presumption had been successful doubt.

He follows a slew of players who person near Europe’s apical leagues for Saudi Arabia since Cristiano Ronaldo’s determination to Al Nassr successful 2022.

Karim Benzema, Sadio Mane and Riyad Mahrez are immoderate of the high-profile names to marque the power arsenic Saudi Arabia has mounted an ambitious recruitment thrust to found itself arsenic a large subordinate successful planetary soccer.

Al Hilal, which produced 1 of the biggest upsets astatine the Club World Cup by eliminating Manchester City, already has a big of marquee players, including Kalidou Koulibaly, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Joao Cancelo and Aleksandar Mitrovic.

It is besides coached by two-time Champions League runner-up Simone Inzaghi.

It has won a grounds 19 Saudi league titles arsenic good arsenic 4 Asian championships, but was beaten to the rubric by Al-Ittihad past season.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies