AC Milan Lirik Darwin Nunez Usai Liverpool Tolak Rekrut Kembali

Klub raksasa Italia AC Milan kini dilaporkan tengah mempertimbangkan untuk mendatangkan penyerang tim nasional Uruguay, Darwin Nunez, pada bursa transfer musim panas setelah Liverpool menolak kesempatan untuk merekrut kembali mantan pemainnya tersebut.

Langkah Rossoneri yang dipimpin oleh manajer Ruben Amorim mencuat menyusul situasi sulit Nunez di klub Arab Saudi, Al-Hilal, karena regulasi pembatasan pemain asing membuatnya terpinggirkan dari skuad domestik akibat kedatangan Karim Benzema.

Legenda Liverpool, John Barnes, memberikan pandangannya mengenai rumor kembalinya penyerang berusia 26 tahun tersebut ke Anfield di tengah era baru kepelatihan Andoni Iraola.

"No, if Iraola doesn't want to play that way. If he says, ‘I want to play that way’, which suits Darwin Nunez's style, then it's possible. But if he says, ‘I don't want to play a chaotic style’, then Darwin Nunez shouldn't come back." ujar John Barnes, Legenda Liverpool.

Barnes menegaskan bahwa pihak klub dan para pendukung harus sepenuhnya mendukung gaya permainan apa pun yang dipilih oleh manajer baru tanpa terus terikat pada warisan taktik masa lalu.

"This is not about Jurgen Klopp. If Jurgen Klopp was still there, maybe he would say we want him back. Then maybe it would be the case.

The fact is, he left when Jurgen Klopp was still there. So I don't know what the situation is with him." kata John Barnes, Legenda Liverpool.

Lebih lanjut, Barnes menekankan pentingnya memberikan kepercayaan penuh kepada struktur skuad yang ada saat ini daripada melihat perekrutan pemain baru sebagai satu-satunya jalan keluar.

"But what we have to do, as a new manager, whatever style of football he wants—fast, slow, chaotic, organized, slow in possession, dynamic, or ‘heavy metal’—we have to follow what the manager wants and support him. We can't keep holding onto Jurgen Klopp's legacy and saying we have to go back to that." tutur John Barnes, Legenda Liverpool.

Ia mencontohkan bagaimana klub lain seperti Arsenal bersabar memberikan waktu bagi manajer mereka untuk membangun proses hingga meraih kesuksesan jangka panjang.

"So, Mo [Salah] was wrong in terms of what he said about non-negotiables, that we have to play a certain way. We have to give the manager a chance and say, whatever style of football he wants, he will pick his players and we will support him." jelas John Barnes, Legenda Liverpool.

Barnes juga memperingatkan dampak negatif yang bisa terjadi jika manajemen klub bertindak gegabah memecat pelatih hanya karena tidak meniru pendahulunya.

"[Mikel] Arteta finished eighth in his first year, eighth in his second year, and fifth in his third year. They supported him. You can see the results.

The owners, the chief executive, and the hierarchy don't sack managers; the fans do. And the fans, unfortunately, lost faith in Arne Slot. So, that decision had to be taken." urai John Barnes, Legenda Liverpool.

Menurutnya, atmosfer ketidaksabaran dari suporter sering kali menjadi penyebab utama kegagalan manajer baru di klub-klub besar Premier League.

"Now, if Iraola loses two or three games in the first month, are we then going to sack him? Because when Man United brought in David Moyes—who is a good manager—to Man United, because he didn't do what Fergie did, they sacked him. Then Louis van Gaal, ‘Fergie would have done it like this’, they sacked him.

Jose Mourinho, ‘Fergie would have done it like this’. If we keep dwelling on Jurgen Klopp's legacy, we're not going to get a manager coming to Liverpool and having success. Forget that.

Whoever the manager is coming in, we support him in whichever way he wants—slow, fast, tricky, heavy metal, chaos, whatever. He makes the decisions, not the legacy of the past." tambah John Barnes, Legenda Liverpool.

Mengenai urgensi belanja pemain, ia meyakini komposisi skuad The Reds yang ada saat ini sudah memiliki kualitas yang mumpuni.

"When Arne Slot came, we signed [Federico] Chiesa and [Wataru] Endo, who never played, and we still won the league. So, is signing players the solution? We signed four players, to the tune of £400m, but it didn't work.

Is signing players the solution to the problem? We have enough players. We have good enough players.

Now, if we need a center-back, we'll get a center-back." tukas John Barnes, Legenda Liverpool.

Barnes mengakhiri pandangannya dengan mengingatkan agar kebijakan transfer tidak sampai mengorbankan jalur perkembangan para talenta muda potensial di klub.

"I don't look at signing players as the solution to the problem. If we sign a player and talk about [Yan] Diomande coming in, what happens to [Rio] Ngumoha? We're blocking his pathway.

So for me, I think we have enough players at the moment. If we can get better players and the manager wants more, fine. But for me, I think the players we have are good enough.

We have to trust them. We have to trust the manager and move forward." tegas John Barnes, Legenda Liverpool.

Dilansir dari Milan Vibes dan Anfield Watch, Al-Hilal bersedia memutus kontrak besar Nunez senilai 400.000 poundsterling per minggu demi memfasilitasi kepindahannya kembali ke Eropa, baik lewat pemotongan harga transfer maupun opsi pinjaman.

Namun, kendala utama bagi AC Milan saat ini adalah tuntutan gaji bersih sang pemain yang mencapai kisaran 20 juta euro per musim, yang memaksa terjadinya negosiasi lanjutan guna menyesuaikan batasan anggaran gaji Rossoneri.