With Luis Díaz completing his move to Bayern Munich on Wednesday, we look back on his time at Liverpool and see what the Bundesliga champions are getting.
It is one of the Kop’s favourite songs. “Luis Díaz, he’s from Barrancas, and he plays for Liverpool!”
However, that last line is no longer the case as the Colombian winger completed a move to Bayern Munich on Wednesday for a reported fee of around £65.5 million, signing a four-year deal just a couple of months after being crowned a Premier League champion with Liverpool.
Díaz departs Anfield having scored 41 goals and recorded 16 assists in 148 games for the club, winning two League Cups, an FA Cup and a Premier League title.
To some, it might seem a strange decision to sell Díaz. He was one of the Reds’ better players in 2024-25, with 17 goals and five assists in 50 games, including 13 goals and all five of his assists in the Premier League.
It seems the player’s age and a desire to try something new have been the main motivations behind the deal. At 28 and with two years left on his deal, it didn’t seem like Liverpool were eager to hand Díaz a long-term contract and a pay rise, while Bayern were happy to finally add a big-ticket attacker after reportedly missing out on a number of targets, including Florian Wirtz, Nico Williams and Bradley Barcola.
Díaz spent three and a half years on Merseyside, joining the club in January 2022 from Porto, and he added a big boost to Liverpool’s already superb attacking options. The 2021-22 season saw them challenge on all fronts, and within four months of arriving, Díaz had already won the League Cup and the FA Cup.
His six goals and four assists in 26 games in that half-season helped Liverpool get within a whisker of winning the Premier League and Champions League as well, in what would have been an unprecedented quadruple for an English club. Ultimately, Manchester City denied them by a point in the league while Real Madrid pipped them in the Champions League final.
With Sadio Mané leaving in the summer of 2022, Díaz was essentially his replacement, even though he’d come in six months prior, and he set about trying to show he could live up to the standards set by the Senegal star.
He managed four goals and two assists in his first 12 games of the season before suffering a knee injury at Arsenal, which kept him out for over six months. He scored just once in his final nine games of what was a disappointing campaign for Liverpool, who finished fifth.
That said, he still showed his quality in the time he spent on the pitch that season. Only three players completed more dribbles per 90 minutes in the Premier League than Díaz (3.2 – minimum 900 minutes played).
4.9 – The five players with the most dribbles completed per 90 minutes in the Premier League in 2022-23 (min. 900 minutes):4.9 – Allan Saint-Maximin3.5 – Adama Traoré3.4 – Kamaldeen Sulemana3.2 – Luis Díaz2.6 – Saïd BenrahmaSlalom. pic.twitter.com/qC8Wx5ktSb
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) May 30, 2023Díaz was able to play much more in 2023-24, but his campaign was disrupted in a stranger way than merely injury. Díaz’s parents were kidnapped for ransom by the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Colombia in November 2023. His mother was released quite early in the ordeal, but his father was held for 12 days before the guerrilla group released him.
During what was a horrible time for him, Díaz missed a couple of games before coming off the bench to score a late equaliser at Luton Town, lifting his shirt to reveal a message in Spanish that translated to “Freedom for Papa”.
Despite having to go through all that, Díaz was able to end the campaign with 13 goals and five assists, and was one of Liverpool’s most creative players. None of Díaz’s teammates created as many as his 82 chances from open play in all competitions.
His solitary season working under Arne Slot in 2024-25 was fairly inconsistent in terms of his form, possibly in part because he found himself playing around a third of his minutes (33%) as the central attacker.
Díaz scored five goals in his first five Premier League games last season, while he hit a hat-trick in the 4-0 home win over Bundesliga title holders Bayer Leverkusen in the league phase of the Champions League. Perhaps that performance against Bayern’s domestic rivals is what convinced them to sign Díaz.
However, after scoring his 12th goal of the season in the 5-0 thrashing of West Ham at the end of December, the Colombian hit a dry patch, scoring just once in his next 19 games. He did add four more in his last seven outings, though, playing a significant role as Liverpool strolled to their 20th English top-flight title.
Something else Díaz showcased was his solid defensive work, winning possession more often (147) in 2024-25 than any other Liverpool forward in all competitions.
All that has convinced Bayern to part with around €75m to bring Díaz to Germany, where he will likely slot in on the left of what could be an electrifying attack.
Díaz will link up with two more exceptional players who made the move from the Premier League to the Bundesliga in Harry Kane and Michael Olise.
While playing with Mohamed Salah must have been fun, getting to provide for Kane is likely to be equally fruitful, as the former Tottenham Hotspur man has 85 goals in 96 games for the Rekordmeister since arriving at the club two years ago, at least 52 more than any other Bayern player in that time.
Then you have Olise, who took the Bundesliga by storm after joining Bayern from Crystal Palace last summer. The France international boasted 27 goal involvements in the league (12 goals, 15 assists), with his 15 assists the most in the Bundesliga, while he managed 35 involvements in total (17G, 18A).
Díaz appears to be the replacement for Leroy Sané, with the Germany international leaving for Galatasaray earlier this summer. Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman remain in Munich for now, but you would think given the money splashed out on Díaz, he will be a regular starter on that left side.
Jamal Musiala will be missing for the next few months after suffering a fractured fibula and dislocated ankle at the Club World Cup, so manager Vincent Kompany will be looking to Díaz to unlock defences with his work rate, dribbling ability and flair. His 2.05 open-play chances created per 90 in the Premier League last season was exactly the same as Musiala achieved in the Bundesliga, and more than Sané (1.93), Joshua Kimmich (1.80), Gnabry (1.75) and Kane (1.32).
He was perhaps unfairly compared to Mané during his time at Liverpool as he was essentially the former Southampton man’s replacement. Reds fans had a special relationship with Mané, who was a major part of the attacking trio that largely defined Jürgen Klopp’s transformative time at the club, along with Salah and Roberto Firmino.
Coincidentally, Mané also left Liverpool for Bayern, though he wasn’t as much of a success there. Twelve goals and six assists in 38 games wasn’t terrible, but after just one season, he left for the Saudi Pro League. Díaz is two years younger than Mané was when he made the switch from Merseyside to Bavaria, though, and will back himself to become a key part of Kompany’s team over the next few seasons.
After the deal was announced on Wednesday, Díaz’s now former boss Slot told reporters: “It was [always going to be a sad day when Díaz left]. First of all, for the person he was because he always had a smile on his face no matter what, in the year that I’ve worked with him. I played him a lot so then maybe it’s a little bit more normal to have a smile on your face. But even when I didn’t play him, he always came out for every training session and gave it everything, with a smile on his face.
“Apart from that, I’m going to miss his song a lot, a lot, a lot as well because it was maybe one of the best songs our fans have for a player. And of course, all that he contributed to us winning the league.”
The Kop will miss singing Díaz’s song next season, and not just because it’s so catchy that it seemingly had the manager nodding along too, but because the player from Barrancas no longer plays for Liverpool.
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