The "Suarez camp" should run away and join the circus. Issuing a press statement while backpedalling furiously is quite a skill.
If Suarez had anything between his ears he'd sack that agent of his forthwith.
Luis Suarez pwned by the Lizards and is Staying, and has said sorry to BR and teammates
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The "Suarez camp" should run away and join the circus. Issuing a press statement while backpedalling furiously is quite a skill.
If Suarez had anything between his ears he'd sack that agent of his forthwith.
Kenny Dalglish's column today
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/kenny-dalglish-column-suarez-hope-2145253
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/kenny-dalglish-column-suarez-hope-2145253
They ARE the same.
Maybe he read this thread and finally realized Transfer Requests are meaningless.
Danny Murphy
I don't agree with him about Rooney. No way is the relationship between Rooney and Moyes ever going to work out.
Reds show of strength on Suarez must be applauded
LFC principle owner John Henry with manager Brendan Rodgers
It was a show of strength for which Liverpool FC’s principal owner John W Henry and manager Brendan Rodgers have been rightly applauded.
The Reds’ response to Luis Suarez’s outspoken attack on his employers this weekwas calculated, smart and emphatic.
The Uruguayan thought he could back Liverpool into a corner as he plotted to secure a move to Arsenal but his outburst backfired spectacularly.
The Reds have stood accused of pandering to Suarez throughout the controversies which have dogged his two and a half years on Merseyside. Not this time.
When Rodgers went on the offensive in Oslo’s Ullevaal Stadium on Wednesday night, it was a breath of fresh air.
Suarez was publicly chastised for his “total lack of respect” towards the club, his team-mates and the supporters who pay his wages.
The manager vowed to take “strong and decisive action” which began with banishing the disgraced striker to train on his own. When Rodgers spoke about the club’s cherished values which Suarez had trampled all over, his words resonated.
Having pulled no punches, what Rodgers needed was unequivocal backing from on high and it arrived within 24 hours with Henry’s defiant comments.
The American confirmed that Suarez was going nowhere. He would rather the 26-year-old spent the season doing laps around the Kirkby Academy than consider the “ludicrous” idea of selling him to the Gunners.
Crucially, Henry also insisted that not even bids from abroad would be considered at this stage as it was too late in the window to secure an adequate replacement. He was crystal clear - there will be no backing down.
The owner’s refusal to give in to player power was refreshing. It also made a mockery of the idea that all Fenway Sports Group (FSG) care about is the bottom line.
If Henry could only see dollar signs then he would have simply ushered Suarez out the door to the highest bidder.
Keeping your prized asset against his will represents a gamble as Suarez’s value could diminish.
Yet it’s one Henry believes Liverpool simply have to take if they are serious about climbing back into Europe’s elite this season.
During a summer when the Reds have encountered the problem of trying to attract star quality when you are outside the Champions League, they can ill afford to lose a world class frontman.
They know that next summer will be different. When Suarez is down to the final two years of his contract, there will be pressure on Liverpool to sell if he still wants out.
But the hope is that by then Anfield will be a more attractive proposition for potential replacements. Suarez has some serious bridges to build before he ever pulls on a red shirt again but both Rodgers and Henry believe there is a way back for him at Anfield.
Liverpool don’t fear the prospect of Suarez doing a Carlos Tevez and disappearing to South America on strike to play golf for four months.
Suarez loves the game too much and anyway he needs to deliver on the pitch if only to put himself in the shop window.
Strangely, the fact he’s suspended for the opening six games of the season actually plays into Liverpool’s hands.
His unavailability until late September means all sides now have time to take stock. The heat will be taken out of the situation.
Suarez has plenty to ponder – not least how badly advised he’s been over that controversial clause in his contract and the wisdom of speaking out to two national newspapers.
He might not like it but he now needs to accept he’s staying put and start out on the long road to repairing the damage he’s done.
Suarez decided he had grown too big for Anfield but this was the week when Liverpool bared their teeth and refused to be bullied.
It was a show of strength for which Liverpool FC’s principal owner John W Henry and manager Brendan Rodgers have been rightly applauded.
The Reds’ response to Luis Suarez’s outspoken attack on his employers this weekwas calculated, smart and emphatic.
The Uruguayan thought he could back Liverpool into a corner as he plotted to secure a move to Arsenal but his outburst backfired spectacularly.
The Reds have stood accused of pandering to Suarez throughout the controversies which have dogged his two and a half years on Merseyside. Not this time.
When Rodgers went on the offensive in Oslo’s Ullevaal Stadium on Wednesday night, it was a breath of fresh air.
Suarez was publicly chastised for his “total lack of respect” towards the club, his team-mates and the supporters who pay his wages.
The manager vowed to take “strong and decisive action” which began with banishing the disgraced striker to train on his own. When Rodgers spoke about the club’s cherished values which Suarez had trampled all over, his words resonated.
Having pulled no punches, what Rodgers needed was unequivocal backing from on high and it arrived within 24 hours with Henry’s defiant comments.
The American confirmed that Suarez was going nowhere. He would rather the 26-year-old spent the season doing laps around the Kirkby Academy than consider the “ludicrous” idea of selling him to the Gunners.
Crucially, Henry also insisted that not even bids from abroad would be considered at this stage as it was too late in the window to secure an adequate replacement. He was crystal clear - there will be no backing down.
The owner’s refusal to give in to player power was refreshing. It also made a mockery of the idea that all Fenway Sports Group (FSG) care about is the bottom line.
If Henry could only see dollar signs then he would have simply ushered Suarez out the door to the highest bidder.
Keeping your prized asset against his will represents a gamble as Suarez’s value could diminish.
Yet it’s one Henry believes Liverpool simply have to take if they are serious about climbing back into Europe’s elite this season.
During a summer when the Reds have encountered the problem of trying to attract star quality when you are outside the Champions League, they can ill afford to lose a world class frontman.
They know that next summer will be different. When Suarez is down to the final two years of his contract, there will be pressure on Liverpool to sell if he still wants out.
But the hope is that by then Anfield will be a more attractive proposition for potential replacements. Suarez has some serious bridges to build before he ever pulls on a red shirt again but both Rodgers and Henry believe there is a way back for him at Anfield.
Liverpool don’t fear the prospect of Suarez doing a Carlos Tevez and disappearing to South America on strike to play golf for four months.
Suarez loves the game too much and anyway he needs to deliver on the pitch if only to put himself in the shop window.
Strangely, the fact he’s suspended for the opening six games of the season actually plays into Liverpool’s hands.
His unavailability until late September means all sides now have time to take stock. The heat will be taken out of the situation.
Suarez has plenty to ponder – not least how badly advised he’s been over that controversial clause in his contract and the wisdom of speaking out to two national newspapers.
He might not like it but he now needs to accept he’s staying put and start out on the long road to repairing the damage he’s done.
Suarez decided he had grown too big for Anfield but this was the week when Liverpool bared their teeth and refused to be bullied.
He'll still go. Trust me.
At some point yes, but not to a competitor, so probably not in this window unless Real give up on Bale and come in with a realistic offer.
This window...
We said all of the same things when Torres was looking to leave, and we had even less time then than now to find a replacement.
It's all posturing.
We said all of the same things when Torres was looking to leave, and we had even less time then than now to find a replacement.
It's all posturing.
And we landed Carroll. Not going to make the same mistake again.
... And how did that work out for us?
Do you think the lizards might just want to try a different tactic this time?
Carra can shut the fuck up.
The image below has the translation of John W. Henry’s quotes from the interview with NRK.No (via Liverpool Reddit.) Video below is of Henry and his wife at the Valerenga match.
if henry thinks we can achieve those goals without spending another 50 mill on a couple of players then he's fucking deluded.
US owners in transfer backlash as United and Liverpool strike pact to prevent Rooney and Suarez going to London
By JOE BERNSTEIN
PUBLISHED: 22:28, 10 August 2013 | UPDATED: 22:28, 10 August 2013
Anfield principal owner John W Henry and United's Glazer family, who already know each other well from their connections in American sport, have been in regular contact throughout the transfer sagas which, alongside Real Madrid's efforts to sign Tottenham's Gareth Bale, have dominated the summer.
They have agreed to stand resolute and not cave in to Suarez, Rooney or their representatives, who have agitated for moves.
Liverpool will not sell Suarez at any price to Arsenal, and Rooney can forget a move to Chelsea.
By pursuing this strategy, both sets of owners believe it could mark a turning point in the steady rise in player power.
Coming from the US, they have been appalled at the ease with which star players under contract to their Premier League clubs expect to click their fingers and get the moves they want.
They also regard Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy as a natural ally following the way he stood up to Luka Modric joining Chelsea two years ago and is now dealing with the unsettled Bale.
Liverpool will only sell Suarez if a foreign club - therefore not a direct competitor - like Real Madrid come in with a Bale-esque bid of around £80million.
The only way out for Rooney is if big-spending Paris Saint-Germain or Monaco dangle a £60m carrot in front of United.
Realistically, neither is going to happen.
Both players understand they need to leave wriggle room in case they are not allowed to leave.
Rooney is said to be distraught, having told friends for some time that he wants to leave United this summer, while Suarez has been on a PR offensive, having claimed in an explosive interview last week that Liverpool had misled him about being allowed to leave.
Liverpool are interested in signing another forward - £10m Juventus striker Alessandro Matri - but not to replace Suarez.
Former Reds manager Rafa Benitez, now coaching Napoli, had a bid accepted for Matri yesterday but the player would prefer a move to England.
Henry, owner of baseball franchise the Boston Red Sox, said on Thursday he was 'unequivocal' that Suarez would not be sold to Arsenal.
A foreign club like Real would have to pay a big premium at this stage because of their past experience.
When Liverpool sold Fernando Torres to Chelsea for £50m on the last day of the transfer window in January 2011, they hurried through the £35m signing of Andy Carroll from Newcastle which proved disastrous.
Suarez still has to serve six games of a 10-match ban for biting Branislav Ivanovic of Chelsea last season, but Henry said: 'We couldn't replace Luis so late in this window, so for football reasons we can't sell.'
Like Liverpool, United are adamant that Rooney will stay but they may face a more difficult period of reconciliation.
The 27- year-old England forward is aghast that his agents have not been able to force through a move after two bids from Chelsea.
But even a transfer request or a third offer of a British transferequalling £50m from Jose Mourinho would not alter the Glazers' stance.
United manager David Moyes did not select Rooney for today's FA Community Shield against Wembley at Wigan on Sunday, but expects him to play some part in England's game against Scotland on Wednesday at Wembley.
In an MUTV interview to be broadcast today, Moyes said: 'I am pleased about Wayne being in the England squad. I had a long conversation with Roy (Hodgson) last week about it, and told him Wayne's situation.
'Wayne has had a shoulder injury which has meant he has not been able to have any contact and he has been sore with it. He has trained a little bit with the reserves as a non-contact player, a floating player, but at least he got a little bit of football work.
'He trained with the first team on Saturday and did a bit of extra work so he is probably more likely to be ready for England than he will be for us.'
The Scot added: 'Roy knows, and I'd only expect Roy to play him for a short time as well. Hopefully Wayne is not in too good a form because it would be good if Scotland get a result!'
Of the three sagas, Bale's switch from Spurs to Madrid is the likeliest, though both clubs are more happy to do a part-exchange deal than a world-record cash move.
Spurs want Fabio Coentrao, Alvaro Morata and Angel Di Maria, though they may have a job persuading them to leave Spain.
It would also suit Real by preserving Cristiano Ronaldo's world-record £80m price tag.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2389073/Wayne-Rooney-Luis-Suarez-London-moves-blocked-US-owners.html#ixzz2bbaaoU2D
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By JOE BERNSTEIN
PUBLISHED: 22:28, 10 August 2013 | UPDATED: 22:28, 10 August 2013
English football's biggest rivals Liverpool and Manchester United have made an unofficial pact to stop Luis Suarez and Wayne Rooney leaving for Premier League rivals in a fight to curtail player power.Anfield principal owner John W Henry and United's Glazer family, who already know each other well from their connections in American sport, have been in regular contact throughout the transfer sagas which, alongside Real Madrid's efforts to sign Tottenham's Gareth Bale, have dominated the summer.
They have agreed to stand resolute and not cave in to Suarez, Rooney or their representatives, who have agitated for moves.
Liverpool will not sell Suarez at any price to Arsenal, and Rooney can forget a move to Chelsea.
By pursuing this strategy, both sets of owners believe it could mark a turning point in the steady rise in player power.
Coming from the US, they have been appalled at the ease with which star players under contract to their Premier League clubs expect to click their fingers and get the moves they want.
They also regard Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy as a natural ally following the way he stood up to Luka Modric joining Chelsea two years ago and is now dealing with the unsettled Bale.
Liverpool will only sell Suarez if a foreign club - therefore not a direct competitor - like Real Madrid come in with a Bale-esque bid of around £80million.
The only way out for Rooney is if big-spending Paris Saint-Germain or Monaco dangle a £60m carrot in front of United.
Realistically, neither is going to happen.
The intransigence of Liverpool and United explains why Suarez and Rooney have so far failed to hand in official transfer requests, even though there have been suggestions that they would.Both players understand they need to leave wriggle room in case they are not allowed to leave.
Rooney is said to be distraught, having told friends for some time that he wants to leave United this summer, while Suarez has been on a PR offensive, having claimed in an explosive interview last week that Liverpool had misled him about being allowed to leave.
Liverpool are interested in signing another forward - £10m Juventus striker Alessandro Matri - but not to replace Suarez.
Former Reds manager Rafa Benitez, now coaching Napoli, had a bid accepted for Matri yesterday but the player would prefer a move to England.
Henry, owner of baseball franchise the Boston Red Sox, said on Thursday he was 'unequivocal' that Suarez would not be sold to Arsenal.
A foreign club like Real would have to pay a big premium at this stage because of their past experience.
When Liverpool sold Fernando Torres to Chelsea for £50m on the last day of the transfer window in January 2011, they hurried through the £35m signing of Andy Carroll from Newcastle which proved disastrous.
Suarez still has to serve six games of a 10-match ban for biting Branislav Ivanovic of Chelsea last season, but Henry said: 'We couldn't replace Luis so late in this window, so for football reasons we can't sell.'
Like Liverpool, United are adamant that Rooney will stay but they may face a more difficult period of reconciliation.
The 27- year-old England forward is aghast that his agents have not been able to force through a move after two bids from Chelsea.
But even a transfer request or a third offer of a British transferequalling £50m from Jose Mourinho would not alter the Glazers' stance.
Brothers Joel and Avi, whose father Malcolm is owner of NFL club Tampa Bay Buccanneers, have known Henry for several years and will tough it out.United manager David Moyes did not select Rooney for today's FA Community Shield against Wembley at Wigan on Sunday, but expects him to play some part in England's game against Scotland on Wednesday at Wembley.
In an MUTV interview to be broadcast today, Moyes said: 'I am pleased about Wayne being in the England squad. I had a long conversation with Roy (Hodgson) last week about it, and told him Wayne's situation.
'Wayne has had a shoulder injury which has meant he has not been able to have any contact and he has been sore with it. He has trained a little bit with the reserves as a non-contact player, a floating player, but at least he got a little bit of football work.
'He trained with the first team on Saturday and did a bit of extra work so he is probably more likely to be ready for England than he will be for us.'
The Scot added: 'Roy knows, and I'd only expect Roy to play him for a short time as well. Hopefully Wayne is not in too good a form because it would be good if Scotland get a result!'
Of the three sagas, Bale's switch from Spurs to Madrid is the likeliest, though both clubs are more happy to do a part-exchange deal than a world-record cash move.
Spurs want Fabio Coentrao, Alvaro Morata and Angel Di Maria, though they may have a job persuading them to leave Spain.
It would also suit Real by preserving Cristiano Ronaldo's world-record £80m price tag.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2389073/Wayne-Rooney-Luis-Suarez-London-moves-blocked-US-owners.html#ixzz2bbaaoU2D
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cavani should look up the definition of 'skeleton head'.
He'd find a picture of Rivaldo.
shut up, modo
'now that's what you call loyalty'
fuck off, skeleton head.
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fuck off, skeleton head.
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Hahaha. Whelan! Hahaha.
If suarez played for wigan & was caught on camera killing the elderly by biting into their jugular in a wigan nursing home every night he'd still line up for them whilst awaiting trial.
If suarez played for wigan & was caught on camera killing the elderly by biting into their jugular in a wigan nursing home every night he'd still line up for them whilst awaiting trial.
I heard that interview on talk sport..
Of course he would sell him, I thought. 40 million+ for a Wigan player. . You would laugh all the way to the bank...
