Virgil van Dijk has already warned his Liverpool teammate about the monstrous challenge of facing club-record signing Darwin Nunez in training.
The Reds' new recruit - poached from Benfica for an eye-watering £85million - has not yet linked up with Jurgen Klopp's squad for pre-season after being on international duty with Uruguay last month. But after the words of Van Dijk after Liverpool's meeting with Benfica last term, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is already bracing himself for when Nunez walks through the doors of their training complex in Kirby.
Speaking to Liverpool's website upon returning to Merseyside, the midfielder explained he's looking forward to seeing his new Uruguayan teammate up close, declaring: "I think obviously Darwin, we played against and saw him first hand and I think everything that we saw in those games… he reminded me a little bit of Luis [Diaz] when we played against him when he was at Porto.
