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The Summer of Suarez

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Luis Suarez says he would consider offers from Champions League clubs this summer



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Liverpool FC player Luis Suarez​
LUIS SUAREZ has reiterated that he’s “very happy” at Liverpool FC but says he would have to consider any offers from Champions League clubs this summer.
The Uruguayan striker has been in stunning form this season – plundering 29 goals in 40 appearances for Brendan Rodgers’ side.
However, with the Reds in danger of missing out on Europe, Suarez admits they’re in a “difficult moment”.
Bayern Munich and Juventus are among a host of clubs to be linked with a move for the 26-year-old and Suarez, who is under contract until 2017, has warned he will weigh up his options at the end of the season.

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“I am very happy at Liverpool but you never know in football,” said Suarez, speaking in his homeland ahead of their World Cup qualifier with Paraguay on Friday.
“A player’s ambition is always there, the ambition of wanting to play in elite teams is always there.
“I’m in a world-class team, an elite team like Liverpool. We have to realise we have a new manager who is imposing a philosophy and a way of playing that the players are adapting to as best we can. We hope that it will bear fruit next year.
“If another team comes around with more prospects of competing in international club competition games, which is willing to have me, they are welcome.
“We would talk to the club, we would see if I want to go, if I don’t want to go.”​
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Read more: Liverpool Echohttp://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2013/03/20/luis-suarez-says-he-would-consider-offers-from-champions-league-clubs-this-summer-100252-33030521/#ixzz2O6ptoE93
 
Too much noise ... If he has to go, we better get 50+ million so we can buy two world class players to replace the goals and leadership.
 
It will be a long summer alright. Tbh, I dont think he'll leave. He's honest in that interview and hasnt said anything wrong. There is enough positive noise aswell from him and his agent that I think he'll be staying.

And, we dont have to sell him regardless. He's contracted to 2017.
 
I'd also bet against him going this summer, but I reckon he's used that interview to put a marker down that he's going to want to see real progress next season, leading to a serious challenge for a CL spot at the very least.
 
Judge Jules said:
I'd also bet against him going this summer, but I reckon he's used that interview to put a marker down that he's going to want to see real progress next season, leading to a serious challenge for a CL spot at the very least.
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Serious challenge? we better get 4th spot ...
 
Wouldn't disagree in principle, Wizzy. IMO if we're in the race right to the end and lose out only on goal difference or something, he'd give us more time. However it's certainly true that, if we want to be absolutely sure of keeping him, we have to get 4th.
 
Hansern said:
Why? Where we finished last season doesnt matter.
He loves playing for us, the club, the fans, enjoying a fantastic season and seem to believe that we're going somewhere.
Suarez comes across as someone who cares about something more than money.

If we fail to qualify for the CL next season, I imagine he'll consider his future. But I wouldnt be surprised if he stayed regardless.
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Really? Suarez is a born fucking winner and so far ahead of the rest of our squad it's untrue. He wants to win everything from 5 asides in training to CL's Titles and cups.
He'll be off either this summer (most likely) or next. Don't do this to yourself.
 
Dreambeliever said:
Really? Suarez is a born fucking winner and so far ahead of the rest of our squad it's untrue. He wants to win everything from 5 asides in training to CL's Titles and cups.
He'll be off either this summer (most likely) or next. Don't do this to yourself.
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So he cant win them with us? And if I believe he'll stay for at least another season, then thats what I'll do.
 
We have to believe that in a 3 year periode we'll be challenging.
If we qualify for the CL next year he'll stay regardless imho.

Ah well, if he leaves he leaves. The club will still be here.
 
James Pearce (@JamesPearceEcho)
20.03.13 22:08
There's nothing dramatic about Suarez's comments. He's happy at #LFC but will consider any offers in summer. Wouldn't expect anything else.
 
Hansern said:
James Pearce (@JamesPearceEcho)
20.03.13 22:08
There's nothing dramatic about Suarez's comments. He's happy at #LFC but will consider any offers in summer. Wouldn't expect anything else.
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Robin Van Persie
Fernando Torres
Cesc Fabregas
Wayne Rooney
Carlos Tevez
Etc etc etc...

Were all "happy" at their club and suggeasted they'd "consider any offers" too.
 
In addition, its not the best examples mate

Torres - sulked and moaned for 6 months on the pitch and was clearly unhappy

Cesc - everyone knew he would want to return to Barca. He also spoke about joining them again

Van Persie - didnt want to sign a new contract with 1 year remaining

Wayne Rooney - rejected a new contract at Everton and was sold to Utd at 18

Carlos Tevez - well he's just a fucking nutter isnt he. He's happy in England at 9 am but wants to burn his village down and move to Argentina after lunch

Suarez - well, he's signed a new contract. Is happy and has spoken out several times that his future is at Anfield

But, what happens happens. Its no point discussing it and if he wants out we'll deal with then.
I dont think he'll leave, and with that I'm done with the thread.
 
He has a record for stating he's willing to listen to offers, only if there are bigger than his current club.

April 2009
"AS Roma, that's an example of a club I wouldn't leave Ajax for at this moment. Villarreal in Spain, same story. If clubs like that make an offer this summer, I will surely stay. I want to do it like Huntelaar. He had set his mind on the absolute top after Ajax and he didn't accept any other offers. And now he's succeeding at the top. Another step forward in between wasn't necessary for Klaas.

The two Spanish top clubs are an option for me. I know the city of Barcelona well since my family-in-law is living there. My wife Sofia and I are going to visit them regulary, not every week though. I love it there. But will I join Barcelona one day? Or when? You just cannot know that.

I've intensely thought about it over the past weeks. We're one year before the World cup. Uruguay is competing for the qualification an I'm a fixed started in the national team. So I don't want to risk that spot for a club under the absolute top. At Ajax, I know what I have and what I still can win next season. Personally, I think I can be happy about this season. I feel good on the right wing. I prefer that position over being centre forward. Coming from the wing, you have more room for the one-on-one."
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July 2010
“Manchester United and Barcelona are the elite clubs in Europe,” Suarez said. “If they call, you listen. I would only leave Ajax for a team in that category.”
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/luis-suarez-starting-show-frustration-1719767


Even by his standards, the body language of Luis Suarez has been fascinating in recent matches.

This is a player who wears more than his daughter's name on his sleeve while out on the pitch, so shows of emotion, rage, frustration, despair and of course joy should come as no surprise to any seasoned Liverpool-watcher.

Yet in St Petersburg last week, it was noticeable that towards the end of the game, the South American began to vent a rising frustration towards his own bench. Every time something didn't go right, every time there was a thwarted attack or a mistake, he threw his arms wide as he wheeled towards his manager and coaches.

Against Swansea, particularly in a difficult opening half hour, a similar pattern was followed, as Suarez remonstrated with team-mates - most notably Daniel Sturridge - at their failure to see the play developing around them.

He has always done this of course. Suarez is no mere mortal on the football pitch, he sees things on a higher plane than most of his team-mates - a bit like that recent Sherlock Holmes movie where he can draw angles and lines in his head like a computer graphic.

When others don't show the same awareness - and feed him the ball, obviously - he gets frustrated and angry, and can't help but show his displeasure. In this regard, he is like Eric Cantona, who used to reserved a special type of contempt for the inferior technique of Andy Cole.

What was different about Suarez at Anfield last Sunday though, was his despair. Yes, he was angry when Sturridge couldn't return the ball after a glorious pass to send his partner away. Yes, he gestured with an animation you would expect from someone so passionately committed to his cause.

Yet he frequently then cast his gaze first to the bench, and then to the ground, his shoulders slumping and head shaking slowly from side to side, as he contemplated the failings in front of him.

Now, where Suarez is concerned, there is no point trying to read too much into anything, especially when he's out on the pitch. He has often said he is a different animal when he pulls the shirt on, driven by the demons of his youth, fighting for his life - and that is an appropriate metaphor considering where he came from - as he clawed his way out of the Montevideo slums.

Yet there still seems to be a slight sense of the striker noticing all too readily the failings of his team when things have gone wrong in recent weeks, and transmitting an air of the heartbroken father despairingly disappointed in a wayward offspring.

If there was a sense of familiarity about his body language, then you don't have to look too far back in recent Anfield history to find a similar story. Fernando Torres spent much of his last 18 months with Liverpool screaming frustration and disapproval, to the extent that he eventually - disgracefully - undermined his own team-mates.

Suarez won't do that. If one thing is certain about him, he is a winner who would never do anything consciously to harm his chances of the team victory that provides his lifeblood. He will cajole and castigate, but only to enhance prospects, not undermine.

His petulance when being substituted with barely 10 minutes to go in a game against Swansea that was long before won showed the passion he has for his cause, and illustrated perfectly that he WANTS to be out there, leading Liverpool's charge.

But his body language still begs the question of how long he will remain at Anfield, and it is interesting his own manager Brendan Rodgers was moved only last weekend to admit that ALL clubs must face up to the prospect of their best players leaving, as Cristiano Ronaldo's departure from Manchester United so clinically illustrates.

For what it's worth, I believe Suarez is sincere when he suggests - as he did recently - that he will probably be at Liverpool next season, but the key word is probably. He said in an interview with a Spanish radio station, "let's talk about my future again this summer or next".

He no doubt wants to stay at Anfield because he loves the adoration of the fans, and importantly has bought into the impressive revolution being carried out by Rodgers. It is clear that Suarez has respect for his manager and the style of play that is evolving at Anfield.

That should mean he stays for at least one more season. You'll have guessed by now though, there is a but coming, and it revolves around the identity of potential suitors in the summer.

Suarez is hot property, he is one of the most creatively, dangerous, talented forwards in world football, and he's added a clinical edge to his finishing (Zenit apart) that makes him attractive to the best and biggest clubs in the world.

I'm not certain that the striker would be interested if Chelsea or even Manchester City came calling, and of course there is no way he could move to Old Trafford. But Real Madrid? Barcelona?

Barca will almost certainly be in the market for a striker in the summer because David Villa has never really re-established himself after injury, and if there is a template for the type of forward who would fit perfectly at the Nou Camp, it is Suarez.

He likes Liverpool, there is no doubt, and I believe he will stay for one more season. But he is pragmatic enough to have gone on strike to earn a move to Ajax earlier in his career, so if Barca came calling, then he would have to be tempted... and his body language offers a big enough justification for that, because who wouldn't want to play alongside team-mates of equal technical standing?

On the surface, that would be a disaster for Liverpool at this stage of their evolution, but as Torres shows, no player is irreplaceable. In fact, they dodged a bullet at Anfield in getting rid of such a selfish player at the right time, as his subsequent performances for Chelsea have undoubtedly proved.

Liverpool probably need at least three defenders in the summer, a new keeper, a new central midfielder and two strikers.

If they were to get £50million for Suarez, then it would make the job of financing such wholesale changes that little bit easier.
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Liverpool probably need at least three defenders in the summer, a new keeper, a new central midfielder and two strikers.

If they were to get £50million for Suarez, then it would make the job of financing such wholesale changes that little bit easier.

We need that anyway regardless. If Liverpool sell £50m Suarez, we should be looking at buying a fucking world class forward, so forget about much of that £50m going towards those players.

I think he'll go anyway.
 
mark1975 said:
I think he'll go anyway.
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I think he will too if we get strong interest from a top club.

Interestingly though for someone so good there has been very little speculation on clubs interested in him.

Looking at all the rumours from the last year or so the only club that don't seem to have a top target in the striking department is Barca. Would they want him? I think he'd be absolutely brilliant in that side and perhaps the one club I wouldn't mind him going to as I could still enjoy him there.

If he does leave though we have a really job on our hands to replace him wisely - we can't afford another Carroll fiasco.
 
keniget said:
I think he will too if we get strong interest from a top club.

Interestingly though for someone so good there has been very little speculation on clubs interested in him.

Looking at all the rumours from the last year or so the only club that don't seem to have a top target in the striking department is Barca. Would they want him? I think he'd be absolutely brilliant in that side and perhaps the one club I wouldn't mind him going to as I could still enjoy him there.

If he does leave though we have a really job on our hands to replace him wisely - we can't afford another Carroll fiasco.
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This is my inkling aswell, and it'd be typical Barca really to come in out the blue. I just don't see him being here if one of the big guns come in, and as it's Luis Suarez, that's about the caliber of team he's going to attract.
 
Yeah, I agree with that. Barca are probably the team I'd say he'd join without thinking to much about it.
There is talk of them renewing Villas contract though. And if the Neymar transfer is true I dont think they can afford or have a place for him.

Real seem to be after Aguero. Bayern have apperantly agreed a deal with Lewandowski. Juve hav signed Llorente. PSG have Ibra and Lavezzi and just bought Moura. The other English clubs I'm not worried about.

Its Barca, and if they come in for him he's gone. But other than that I think he'll give it one more year.
 
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