When players like C Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic, who are in the 40s, can still emerge in the European League, it not only shows the ability to become old and strong, but also a manifestation of no successor.
Even so, any player with shiny stats in the Europa League will always join almost all the giants before and after the transfer window.
This time, the protagonists include both Haaland and Mbappe, as well as Benfica's top eight finisher Núñez.
Being able to play a goal battle with Liverpool, who is in good shape, and win a Place in the Quarter-finals of the Champions League for Pao Chao, Núñez's value suddenly soared.
As early as March, the Manchester Evening News had manchester city's content that "despite the legend of Haland, there is still the story of Núñez".
Coincidentally, the player who can become one of Núñez's value judgment criteria is Benfica's "predecessor" Joao Felix, and Felix's Atletico Madrid was eliminated by Manchester City in the Champions League.
As players of 1999, Núñez and Felix have not been able to rank as young players, but compared with the veterans of Europe's super long battery life, they are really rookies or even children.
If a "kid" like Núñez were a little more fierce, maybe Barcelona in the Champions League would end up being third in the group.
But such a comparison is difficult to show much value, and Felix's horizontal comparison is enough to illustrate.
【Curriculum vitae of peers in 1999】
As a constantly injured player, Felix has scored 8 goals and 4 assists in 24 games in a La Liga season (ending 2022-5-3), and has played alongside Atletico madrid for three seasons in the Champions League, which is enough to be called a rich resume.
Felix's rivals and teammates are Suarez, Carrasco, Griezmann and other old jianghu, and even Correa is an old qualification within the Atletico team.
Nunez's current pod statistics are far better than the original Felix, and the cooperation between Lafa Silva and Gonzaro Ramos in the team is also tacit.
But as a player born in 1999, Nunez's level is still super, and Felix has been fighting at the Champions League level for a long time.
[National team - Nunez only played half of Felix]
When the Uruguayan national team still has to rely on veterans like Suarez and Cavani who are close to retirement age to advance to the World Cup, all the Uruguayan youngsters seem to need to improve too much.
The same as Felix, the same player born in 1999, also entered the adult national team in 2019, and the number of appearances with Felix is 9:22, which seems to be a smaller gap than the Gou Chao against the Champions League.
[The club's high competition - Felix is still a deputy for three seasons]
Felix of the national team is still an assistant to Cristiano Ronaldo, Bernardo Silva and Fernandez; in La Liga, even the former Benfica youngsters who have gained a foothold still score fewer goals than Suarez and Correa.
Even more pronounced in the league is that La Liga's top scorer is The high-scoring Benzema of the season, scoring three times as many goals as Felix.
And no matter which giant Nuñez is "about to officially announce", those who are over 30 years old or even over 35 years old will not have any possibility of making room in the short term.
Moreover, as a similar contrast of Felix, what is shown at this moment is still only the performance of the dark horse of the tungsten, rather than the state of the explosion after landing on the giants.
Comparing Manchester City, Sane, who made his early appearance in Schalke 04, has become a contrast; Real Madrid's Vinicius has spent many seasons to find the feeling; Barcelona has used a group of small forwards, injuries and instability are troublesome.
Núñez can be the focus of media forecasts at this point, but there is no sign of surpassing his peer Felix yet.