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It's official, Liverpool fans - Darwin Nunez is your new number 9. The chaotic striker has snatched his chance to inherit the iconic shirt following Roberto Firmino's move to Al Ahli in Saudi Arabia on a free transfer. Nunez's decision to take the number got us thinking about all the great strikers who have sported the 9 for Liverpool since the turn of the century. Here's 90min's ranking of every player to wear it since 2000. 10. Iago Aspas Aspas failed in England / Matthew Ashton/GettyImages Years: 2013 - 2014 Games: 15 Goals: 1 Iago Aspas has had a fine career in La Liga with Celta Vigo, but he was a huge disappointment in his one and only season in England. His only goal for Liverpool came against Oldham Athletic in the FA Cup - he failed to find the net in the Premier League - and the Spaniard's most memorable moment came when he played a Liverpool corner right into the path of an opposition player. Not great. 9. Rickie Lambert Lambert returned to Liver...

In January of 2021, I wrote a story with the following headline : "Trae Young's ill-advised 3-pointer tells larger tale: An average shooter who thinks he's Steph Curry." I got skewered for it. Told I know nothing about basketball. Next thing I know I'm defending my words on an Atlanta radio show as though they were based on something other than indisputable facts.  Trae Young wasn't an elite shooter then.  And he's still not an elite shooter now.  Understand, I'm not talking about Young's shooting talent, which clearly isn't cut from average fabric. I'm capable, believe it or not, of accounting for the difficulty of Young's shot diet, just as I understand that the shots he takes are his decision. Yes, we lend some statistical leeway to those tasked with conjuring up offense for themselves and everyone around them, and yes, a guy like Young is valuable beyond his a...