Liverpool hero McManaman convinced by Nunez potential

Liverpool hero Steve McManaman is convinced by Darwin Nunez's potential.

McManaman admits he rates highly the Uruguay striker.

"He is a young lad learning, he still doesn't know English fully and that will help when he maintains that level of conversation with his team-mates," McManaman told the PA news agency.

Because we are English we think everyone should turn up and speak English. It's ridiculous.

He has not played a lot of high-profile football. The team before Benfica was a lower league team, then he joined Benfica and a couple of years years later he has joined Liverpool.

We saw it with De Bruyne at Chelsea, Mo at Chelsea.

You try to go and live in Uruguay tomorrow and get on with business it is bloody hard. You need to give them time to settle.

We need to give him time, definitely, as you cannot judge him over 18 months when he is playing for Liverpool at the very highest level, across world football.

Good players should improve year-on-year and if that happens he could turn into a fantastic centre-forward."