Benfica ‘lowers’ the price of Darwin almost in half

Darwin Núñez will be one of the hot names during the next summer transfer market. Benfica’s Uruguayan striker is in the sights of several important clubs after establishing himself as one of the great revelations on the European scene. Everything he touches turns not only into goals, but into gold.. The ten million euros that Almería disbursed, in the Second Division, so that the Uruguayan gunslinger crossed the pond in 2019-2020 generated stupefaction, but he silenced it with 16 goals and three assists.

Those brilliant numbers in a category that is so even, competitive and more prone to collective brilliance than to the individual caught the attention of Las Águilas, who paid 26 million euros for Darwin to fly to the next rung of his career. In Lisbon he also landed on his feet. Fourteen goals and twelve assists in his first season, to finish unleashing all his talent in the current one.

In the absence of completion, your service record already includes 26 goals and two assists and a key goal to eliminate Ajax in the Champions League that will go down in history and has finished exalting him among the fans. Numbers that testify to his evolution to a more area forward, who progressively sharpens his goalscoring nose. Is he ready for another step in his career?

Benfica puts a price on it

In the Premier League, clubs like Tottenham, Newcastle or Arsenal are very interested. In Spain, Atlético de Madrid wants him, who will lose his compatriot Luis Suárez. The Uruguayan striker’s clause with Benfica is 150 million euros. However, the people of Lisbon, account The gamehave priced their departure at 80 million.

Its market value, according to Transfermarkt it’s 40 million, so the amount Benfica is willing to let him out for is no joke. The game explains that Darwin’s commitment to his current agents expires in the summer and that Jorge Mendes has already established contacts to participate together with his current representatives in an operation in the next transfer window in which the charrúa will once again generate a substantial capital gain for his team.