Liverpool are in the process of finalising a loan deal for Uruguayan defender Ronald Araujo from Barcelona. The deal could also see Liverpool sign Araujo after the year-long loan for £55m in an option to buy.
He will become Liverpool’s fourth Uruguayan player, with two of the players making more than 100 appearances for the club.
Sebastian Coates
24 appearances, 2 goals
Sebastian Coates joined Liverpool in 2011, directly from the Uruguayan League. The fee of £10.5 million was quite high for the time, and with only 24 games played in his four-year spell, it didn’t quite work out. In 2015, after a few loans, Liverpool sold him to Sunderland for just £2 million. Coates went on to have a great career in Portugal, being a stalwart for Sporting and is now back at Nacional playing in the Uruguayan League.
Luis Suarez
133 appearances, 82 goals
Luis Suarez was an electric player in a Liverpool shirt and with 82 goals in 133 games, he is one of the best finishers that the Premier League has seen in a goals per game focus.
His best season came in 2013-14, where he scored 31 Premier League goals in 33 games.
Suarez also did, however, have many controversial times in a Liverpool shirt with the racist clash with Patrice Evra and the biting of Branislav Ivanovic.
Liverpool would ultimately decide to sell Suarez after a further biting incident at the 2014 World Cup, ending in a lengthy ban.
Darwin Nunez
143 appearances, 40 goals
Darwin Nunez was a marmite figure for Liverpool fans. His play style was so electric with the pace that he broke with and his pressing in attack.
He gave Liverpool fans some incredible moments, such as his two goals against Brentford in the dying minutes and his brace against Newcastle with a man down to win the game from behind. There also is that famous clip of him celebrating the Carabao Cup win by jumping over the advertising hoardings, even when he was injured.
Nunez, however, was wasteful in front of goal and could easily have doubled that 40 goal tally, if his finishing had been to a higher standard.
