Liverpool striker Darwin Núñez has hailed teammate Mohamed Salah and detailed the wise advice the Egyptian star gave to him upon his arrival at the club.
The Uruguayan striker arrived at Liverpool from Benfica in the summer after two successful years with the Portuguese side.
His first few months in the Premier League have proven to be anything but smooth, with the striker yet to fully adapt to life at his new club.
Darwin has openly admitted to struggling with the language, recently revealing that he doesn’t yet understand everything that Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is saying to him.
That has been seen on the pitch, where Núñez has sometimes looked out of sync with the way Liverpool play in his early days at the club.
That’s a situation that has improved in recent weeks, with the striker looking more settled than he did previously and his performances getting better as a result.
“Salah is an excellent player and an excellent person,” Núñez told ESPN.
“When I arrived in pre-season, I was talking to him, we had Fabinho as a translator. In those first few games I was very nervous.
“I had arrived without training and things weren’t going my way. Then Mohamed called me to talk to me, 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 didn’t know English.
“He told me that I was going to learn it, to be calm now, to do what I did at Benfica, that my potential was important for the team and that I had his backing and that of the captains.”
