Benfica president: "Liverpool offer made it impossible to keep Nunez"

With the new

boss Eric ten Hag traveling to Portugal to seal a move for their

striker,

's side made an offer that neither Darwin Nunez and Benfica could reject as the 23-year-old striker joined

on a record £88m (€100m) deal.

Benfica president and former Milan player, 

admitted the Reds' €100 million transfer plan made it impossible for

to remain at

as the club was forced to sell their Uruguayan superstar.

He told

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“We are talking about one of the highest transfers of the market. We are still coming out of a pandemic situation, which held back the football market. Making a sale of €75+€25m is not open to discussion.

“The sale of Darwin is more than justified. There weren’t even conditions to keep him; it was completely impossible, for the values that came into the club and for what Darwin went on to earn.”

Scoring in his official debut for Liverpool against

and further scoring in his Premier League debut at

, Darwin Nunez was in a good form until he was then shown a straight red card when he lost his cool against

.

After losing their Champions League opener to

4-1, they will next face

on Tuesday following the cancelation of this week's EFL games following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

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