HE WAS PRESCRIBED TO BARCELONA BY LUIS SUAREZ YET IS GOING INTO THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER-FINALS WITH BENFICA. DARWIN NUNEZ'S STOCK SIMPLY KEEPS ON RISING.
The Portuguese side were to a great extent second best against Ajax in Amsterdam on Tuesday, yet it was Nunez who headed the unequivocal objective in the bind to give Benfica a 3-2 total win that sends them into the last eight.
That was a fourth objective in the Champions League this season for the 22-year-old Uruguayan forward, who has been connected with a transition to Newcastle this week.
While Nunez actually played for Almeria in the Spanish second level, Suarez asked the Barca ordered progression to sign his countryman.
"I have 15 years of global experience, so I could go on all day about advances," Suarez uncovered. "Furthermore, I told them, 'focus on this one, he's generally excellent, he has exceptionally fascinating things'."
Barcelona pushed for an arrangement. Yet, in the midst of their monetary emergency, at last they couldn't come to an arrangement and watched Benfica spend a club record move expense of 24m euros (£20m) to take the forward to Lisbon in September 2020.
"Barcelona, for sure, showed a solid interest in Darwin. We examined how the activity would be and illustrated it, yet they were at that point going through a difficult stretch in those days and that confounded things," Almeria's wearing chief Joao Goncalves clarified for BBC Sport.
"I'm persuaded that, had those talks occurred in a less fierce period for them, he would have moved to Barcelona.
"What was on the table was the chance of them marking Darwin and leaving him with us for one more season borrowed. Basically like they had done before with Pedri at Las Palmas."
'No, you're not taking my other child'
For somebody who experienced childhood with the Brazilian line in the unassuming community of Artigas and dreading, for a lot of his youth, that a stream flood would obliterate his home, playing Barcelona away is no tension by any means.
In spite of the battles the humble Nunez family experienced, they have remained together all of the time.
The first of them to venture out from home was the oldest child, Junior, who dazzled Uruguayan force to be reckoned with Penarol and stuffed his things to set out toward the capital Montevideo after previous global Jose Perdomo came for him.
The previous midfielder, who played multiple times for Coventry City in 1990 and had spells with Genoa and Real Betis, functioned as a scout covering the north of the country for his previous club Penarol. Perdomo kidded on out that, after several years, he would be back for their most youthful child, Darwin, as well.
He was dead serious, despite the fact that things wound up not being basically as straightforward as he had trusted.
"At the point when he turned 13, I reached out again with the dad [Bibiano Nunez] about carrying Darwin to Penarol and he concurred," Perdomo reviewed.
"However at that point, when I showed up in Artigas, the mother [Silvia Ribeiro] was there and told me: 'Perdomo, you have proactively taken Junior from me, yet Darwin, no, you won't take. How about we stand by a smidgen more since he's still excessively youthful and I would rather not lose him. I as of now miss Junior a great deal.'
"It was what was going on. It required three, four months to persuade the mother. Also, when we at last did, you can say that she wasn't agreeable to me. She became extremely irate."
Nunez got to Penarol in 2013 and immediately rose through the positions at the club. By 2015, at 16 years old, he partook in a senior group instructional course interestingly. He could never have been more joyful.
'He has no roof'
However, it was very great to be valid.
Toward the start of 2017, he needed to have a medical procedure on his cruciate tendon and was sidelined for eighteen months. It was a gigantic blow and, surprisingly, caused him to consider resigning from football.
In any case, his family and associates remained close by thus, in 2018, he returned on schedule to get a spot in the South American Under-20 Championship the next year.
His exhibitions in Chile were gigantically censured via web-based entertainment, which turned into an issue for Nunez, who accepted counsel from the group's therapist. From that point on, he quit actually looking at his telephone after matches.
In spite of that, he actually figured out how to get himself on the radar of Almeria. The Spaniards required a youthful striker and chose to face a challenge on him, paying 8m euro to Penarol in 2019. He was a moment hit, proceeding to score 16 objectives in his sole season for the club.
"It involved planning - maybe assuming that we had gone for Darwin a half year after the fact, we could not have possibly had the option to buy him," said Goncalves.
"Luckily, we did it in a second when he was beginning to score at Penarol, yet hadn't turned into a slam dunk. Despite the fact that he had not done well for the under-20 side, we accepted something really stood out about him and were compensated for that.
"At the point when he left for Benfica, we were all considering the way that he would act in typical conditions. In the event that he did what he did in a pandemic setting, envision what he's prepared to do."
Perdomo has a similar energy as he added: "On the off chance that you consider Diego Forlan, Edinson Cavani and Suarez, they all have various qualities, so I don't figure you can think about them.
"What really invigorates me about Darwin is that I think he actually has a great deal to advance, he has no roof. He's Uruguay's future number nine."
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