Newcastle and Chelsea keen on former Liverpool star

Newcastle and Chelsea keen on former Liverpool star Darwin Nunez Premier League Return Could Tempt Chelsea and Newcastle Darwin Nunez’s strange, restless career could be heading back towards English football, with Daily Star reporting that the former Liverpool forward has confirmed his departure from Al Hilal less than a year after leaving Anfield. It feels entirely in keeping with Nunez that even his exit from Saudi Arabia carries a sense of chaos, possibility and unfinished business. Few forwards in recent Premier League memory have been quite so magnetic, quite so maddening, or quite so difficult to categorise.

Daily Star state that the Uruguayan “represented Liverpool between 2022 and 2025” after arriving for a fee worth £64million, yet “generally fell short of justifying” that figure. That assessment will sting some Liverpool supporters, particularly as Nunez was part of the squad that won the Premier League. Yet it also captures the contradiction of his time at Anfield, he was never dull, rarely anonymous, and often decisive in ways that did not always show up neatly in the numbers.

Saudi Spell Ends Abruptly Liverpool eventually chose to “cut their losses”, moving Nunez to the Saudi Pro League for around £46m last summer. For all the talk of fresh starts, the move appears to have unravelled quickly. Photo: IMAGO According to the report, Nunez made an encouraging start at Al Hilal, only to be squeezed out after Karim Benzema’s January arrival.

Daily Star explain that Al Hilal had to manage foreign player restrictions, with rules allowing “only eight overseas players born before 2003” in their 25 man squad. That administrative detail matters. Nunez has not simply faded because of form alone.