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Liverpool boss Klopp confident Nunez will prove quality: He needs time

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp insists Darwin Nunez will be stronger after his first season in England.

The €100m signing from Benfica has struggled for consistency.

But Klopp says: "There's a lot more to come,.

"That's clear. He needs time to settle. The most difficult thing for a striker is to come into a team that is not clicking.

"Imagine if he played for us in a good season, an 80-point or more season, he would have scored more goals, definitely. But it is like now each situation we created and we miss it and it is a more high level.

"Mo Salah, in his best season when he scored 40-odd goals, missed chances. That's normal. Erling Haaland [has] missed chances. But they had much more than we created in this period. Fifteen goals is absolutely fine.

"There are still three games to go so possibly he can increase that number as well. He had time to adapt at Benfica and there was no language issue, or less than it is here. We tried to help him so he can help us even more than he did already."

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