‘Top, top boy’: Jurgen Klopp hails ‘electric’ £60m striker Liverpool want to sign this summer

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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has heaped praise on Benfica striker Darwin Nunez amid claims he is being eyed up for a move to Anfield.

Liverpool are back in Champions League action on Tuesday night as they travel to Lisbon to take on Portuguese side Benfica.

The Reds edged past Inter Milan in the last round and will need to step up their game a little to beat a very tricky Benfica side.

Benfica dumped Ajax out in the last round and the match-winner that night was star striker Darwin Nunez as he buried a crucial header.

That has been the story of Nunez’s season – goals, goals and more goals.

In 34 games for Benfica this season, Nunez has racked up 27 goals and three assists on his way to becoming one of the top young strikers in world football.

Unsurprisingly, Nunez is now being linked with a big-money move away from Benfica this summer, just two years since arriving from Almeria.

Portuguese newspaper O Jogo have been quoted by Sport Witness as saying that Liverpool are ready to make their move for Nunez this summer.

Hailed as ‘electric’ by Micah Richards, it’s claimed that Benfica now want a huge £60million fee for Nunez at the end of the season.

Liverpool went shopping in Portugal during the January transfer window, luring Luis Diaz to Anfield – and Nunez could follow suit.

An audition against Virgil van Dijk will be a great test for Nunez, and he has now been hailed by Liverpool boss Klopp.

Speaking at his pre-match press conference this afternoon, Klopp has admitted that he thinks Nunez is a ‘good striker’ and the next off the Uruguayan conveyor belt.

Klopp added that Nunez is a ‘top, top boy’ and will be a threat to Liverpool on Tuesday night, urging his defenders to keep him quiet.

“He’s a good striker,” said Klopp. “The next one from Uruguay! I don’t know how they play together, Cavani, Suarez and him, in one team – that’s probably a challenge to put that in place.”

“Top, top boy. Yes, the goals he’s scored. Obviously the one against Ajax in Amsterdam was a massive one, yes in the group stage as well, so he’s not shy. He did now not start the last game, he came on at half time because of coming back from international duty, so we expect him to start tomorrow, and we have to make that he will not get a lot of balls,” he added.