Liverpool summer signing Darwin Nunez has been compared to Reading favourite Shane Long.
23-year-old Nunez arrived on Merseyside in the summer for a reported £64m from Benfica, scoring nine goals in 18 appearances up to the World Cup break.
He had scored 48 in 85 for the Portugese giants in the previous three seasons- earning 14 caps for Uruguay.
Reading legend Kevin Doyle, who has been working as a pundit for Irish channel RTE, discussed the forward in the same breath as former club and international teammate Long.
Arriving in Berkshire together in 2005, then-teenage Long was an unknown quantity.
Staying until 2011, he scored over 50 goals in over 200 appearances before a decade long stay in the Premier League.
Speaking on the pair, he said: "I played with someone like that. I played with Shane Long who was very raw when he was younger. He came to Reading and he had raw, raw pace, and he needed help and he needed coaching.
“He had played Gaelic growing up and very little football. He got coaching, but if he got more football coaching when he was younger he had the ability to be a really, really top player. He was a top player anyway, but to get to the very top.
“He’s one I saw who was very like Nunez. Raw, maybe needs a couple of chance. But when you have that pace you have half a chance. Nunez looks like that, willing to learn and listen. Like Shane Long."
35-year-old Long has scored just once this season, but missed more than a month out with a virus.
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