Report: Liverpool seriously considering move for Forest star who Ian Wright would pay to watch
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Nottingham Forest have made a brilliant start to the 2024/25 campaign and Nuno Espirito Santo must be delighted with the start.
The Reds beat Leicester City 3-1 on Friday night to sit in fifth for a day before the games on Saturday and Sunday took place.
To be seventh in the top flight after nine games is fantastic for Forest and right now the team has 12 points between them and the relegation zone.
With the good start to the campaign comes a negative and Forest already receiving admiring glances from bigger clubs for their top stars.
Nikola Milenkovic only signed in the summer and Newcastle are keen on him, whilst other players are being monitored constantly.
Liverpool seriously considering move for Forest star Murillo
According to Team Talk, the Brazilian defender is the latest player to be added to the shortlist of the Anfield giants.
It hardly comes as a surprise. Murillo is part of a defensive unit that is the only one so far this season to stop a Liverpool team managed by Arne Slot from scoring.
Forest defeated Liverpool 1-0 in September – not that Slot ever mentions it – and Murillo was brilliant that day.
Signing Murillo won’t come cheap to any team in the Premier League and beyond when the time does come for him to move on from Forest.
Evangelos Marinakis stood firm on a £70 million valuation in the summer amid vast interest from a host of clubs across Europe.
Forest won’t want Murillo to leave but given how his stock is rising it does look inevitable that the time will come at some point in the future for him to move on.
What Ian Wright said about Murillo
The pundit is a massive fan of Murillo and struggles to mention Forest in any context without waxing lyrical on his brilliance.
Speaking on a recent Wrighty’s House Podcast, he said: “I just don't want Forest to ever substitute Murillo. Ever! Honestly, again in the game, he did a couple of things at centre-back, picking up the ball and driving forward.
“But, I just thought to myself if I'm paying to watch football in this time when everything seems so robotic, to see a player just doing things, trying to nutmeg people in his own half and then turning and doing that Maradona turn, coming out and passing through lines, that's what you pay to see.
“It was brilliant to watch from Murillo, he's playing how I envisage football to be played.”
Murillo is growing with every appearance and alongside Milenkovic he’s really starting to take his game to the next level.
The fact he’s a left-sided option means he will cost more to any potential suitors and if Liverpool are the club that press ahead with Murillo, they better be prepared to dig deep.
