Former agent of Darwin Núñez recalls separation from Uruguayan striker at Liverpool

Edgardo Lasalvia, former agent of Darwin Núñez, recalled the separation with the Uruguayan striker from Liverpool, who passed through Benfica.

“I didn’t get a chance to talk to Darwin. I found out when he came with six bodyguards and didn’t want to do interviews at the airport. I had sent a guy from the company to pick him up. I tried calling him and, via WhatsApp message, he told me that he liked me a lot, that he was going to be my friend forever, blah blah, but that he was going to start a new path with another company and he blocked me. I didn’t even have the opportunity to respond”, he pointed out, in statements to the Uruguayan program Offsideyes Sports Carve.

Lasalvia revealed that he saw Darwin in Qatar at the 2022 World Cup.

«I saw him at the World Cup, him and his family. I greeted them from afar, but this was not the time to speak. It will happen if all goes well. I don’t have a contract with the players, I rarely sign anything, because it seems to me that the word is worth more. To the kids I say ‘whoever wants to leave, leave now’. When they reach the top after I’ve given them everything, paid for operations, fought with doctors, everyone knows what I’ve done and I look from the outside. And these businessmen from up there, they buy you the latest Lamborghini and they are superstars because they dress in suits and speak five languages. And I’m a Zé Nobody», he continued, recalling the times when the striker was still at Benfica:

«They started to make his head when he was at Benfica. It’s the first time I’m talking about this. It’s a struggle, they offer my players the latest iPhone. It is the prostitution of the football world. I was upset when I lost Darwin. He broke me in half. My heart goes out to my children and true friends », he concluded.