Darwin Nunez has revealed the advice Mohamed Salah gave him after he completed a big money switch from Benfica to Liverpool in the summer transfer window.
The £85 million man struggled to settle into life at Liverpool as Nunez struggled with the language barrier, but Salah called the 23-year-old to offer him some much-needed advice on how to adjust.
Nunez has shown glimpses of his talents and what he can bring to this Liverpool side and is back in the squad that will look to progress to the last 16 of the Champions League with a point away at Ajax tonight.
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The Uruguayan striker arrived at Liverpool's pre-season camp short of fitness and was ridiculed on social media for some misses during friendlies before scoring on his Premier League debut at Fulham.
Nunez spoke to ESPN Uruguay to talk of Salah's guidance: "Salah is an excellent player and an excellent person. When I arrived in the preseason I was talking to him, we had Fabinho as a translator.
"In those first games I was very nervous, I had arrived without training, and things didn't work out for me. Then Mohamed called me to talk, he told me that I had to be calm because I was new, that I was just adapting to the club.
“He told me that he also went through that moment, that when he arrived in 2017 he did not know English, and he told me that I was going to learn it, that now I should be calm, that I should do what I did at Benfica, that my potential was important for the team and that he had his support and that of the captains."
Nunez came up against Virgil van Dijk when Liverpool knocked Benfica out of the Champions League last season and the striker has admitted it makes him "hot" when he struggles to get past the Dutchman in training.
"Van Dijk is a monster, sometimes I get hot because I can't pass him in training, he puts an arm in me and takes me out," Nunez added. "He is a very important piece for Liverpool, and he is also a reference, he is always talking to everyone, he is very funny and it is good that there are people like that in the dressing room.
“It's very difficult to beat him heads-up. I also thank him because when he was interviewed he gave me the upper hand and said that it had been very difficult to mark me; I admire him a lot as a player and as a person."
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