Luis Diaz reveals the top target he has set for himself with Liverpool this season

Luis Diaz wants to build on his flying start to the season with and enjoy his best-ever campaign with the Reds.

Diaz has netted five times and registered one assist in Liverpool’s first seven games and he wants to beat last season’s tally of 13 goals. That’s the star’s best return for the Reds as he approaches three years at Anfield and he wants to improve every season.

“Let’s hope so, that’s the idea,” said Diaz. “I always think about helping the team, which is the most important thing. I think it’s a good number.

“I always try to get better each year, to improve on what I did the previous one, and the goals and assists come on their own.” Diaz is more clinical under head coach and he is adding an end product to his play.

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The South American has frustrated Liverpool fans at times and they feel he should have more than the 29 goals he has scored since his £37.5million move from Porto in January 2022. No-one can question his love of playing and he puts this down to his upbringing in the town of Barrancas in La Guajira region of Colombia.

Diaz, 27, says he even carried on playing as a kid when he kicked the ball and lost a toenail. “The toenail story, yes,” he said. “It was great. When we were playing on a pitch in front of my grandmother’s house, all we cared about was playing football and having a good time.

“It used to be a dirt pitch, with stones, poor quality, but we were happy and we would play there. That’s where the story about my toenail comes in. There were too many stones and the ground was too dirty. I hit the ball wrong and my toenail came off.

“I said, ‘I don’t mind, I want to keep playing’. I wanted to keep playing, that’s all I wanted to do. I don’t know, I really didn’t care much about anything else. I put a plaster on and carried on playing.”

Diaz says growing up in Barrancas in northern Colombia gave him the desire to succeed because everyone there wanted to improve their lives. “La Guajira is the best thing that’s ever happened to me,” he told UEFA.com.

“Barrancas is a place I’m proud of, knowing that I was born there, knowing that I came from there. The fact that my roots are in Barrancas has always been something that I’ve been proud of.

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“Most people there know each other, they get along very well. They’re determined people, they also strive to better themselves. No matter how few opportunities they get and how little they have, they’re always trying to live life with a smile on their faces, trying to forge the best path forward for themselves, trying to be happy with what they have.

“They’re always cheerful, they’re always trying to forge the best path forward for themselves.”

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