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Dunks latest write up on the Suarez situation, opinions?

It came as no surprise to learn that the 2 newspapers briefed on Arsenal's so called Luis Suarez transfer bid were The Telegraph and The Times, with the usual hacks running what was fed to them from a senior Liverpool FC executive.As soon as the news started to filter through last night, the first thing we did was enquire as to who had put their names to the reports, once informed, we opted to stay clear and leave touching on it until today because it's all just so predictable.Naturally other rags have now sourced The Telegraph and The Times but those 2 were definitely informed of Arsenal's 'interest' directly from Anfield.Clubs don't leak approaches like this unless it can benefit them. We are 100% convinced that this approach has been leaked to try and instigate a bidding war for Luis Suarez. Liverpool don't want to sell but if they are forced to it could dramatically influence the amount of money that Liverpool could raise from a potential sale. The more clubs that step forward the better, if the player is going to try and force through a move.A bidding war between the likes of Arsenal (although they wouldn't break the bank), Chelsea and Real Madrid would be helpful but the player has his heart set on a move to the Bernabéu and the Spaniards know this. If a move to the Spanish giants falls through, we wouldn't be surprised to see the player make an embarrassing u-turn and suddenly rediscover his apparent 'love' for Liverpool because 'it would be so hard to say goodbye to such amazing fans'.Do Arsenal want Suarez? Well yes of course Wenger would love to sign him, but Arsenal knew fine well that their 'bid' was going to be turned down. All they want to do is apply pressure on Real Madrid to try and force through a deal for Gonzalo Higuain. Liverpool know this too but rather than keep quiet, they want to show their zero tolerance of interest in the player to the fans (to show they're trying to keep him at the club) and at the same time instigate interest.The Suarez situation has dragged on too long already. We'd love to see Liverpool announce that they have opted to sell the player as a result of him refusing to commit but that's not going to happen because not only would the Reds have to accept a lower transfer fee (as buying clubs will know the Reds need to sell) but the player would be entitled to a golden handshake as he can claim he never requested to leave.It's all a game and we're tired of it. Liverpool need to show some balls and Luis Suarez needs to man up and act professionally and leave the club graciously like Xabi Alonso did and not do a Michael Owen or a Javier Mascherano. Talk of the 'pain' caused by the British media is a poor excuse. We don't begrudge Suarez leaving to win silverware and let's be honest, few people would reject Real Madrid, but don't treat us, the fans, like we're muppets.The longer this drags on, the more damaging it is to Brendan Rodgers' plans next season and that is unacceptable.

I think Dunk is taking it all a bit too personally. LS is just a footballer who is under contract with us at the moment. He owes us nothing more than 100% effort on the pitch - he gives us that and a lot more. And that really is the end of the story until something actually happens.
Dunk's write up seems to mock Suarez's love for the club. Even if we take everything that the press write as being true, no one can say that he doesn't love Liverpool. You can pick out all the soundbites, twisted quotes and skewed interpretations you like, but one thing that is consistent is Luis Suarez's love for Liverpool Football Club.

IF he leaves he'll be going abroad, and I expect that the press treatment he has received is the biggest factor. If he wanted to leave to pursue trophies then he'd just say so, wouldn't he? And if trophies were a high priority then maybe he joined the wrong club in the first place! If he stays (which I am sue sure that he will), he has my full support. IF he leaves, then good luck to him - without him we'd have been in the bottom half of the table and unable to attract even the unknowns that we are going for!

common denominator in all of this is suarez and his agent fuelling bids and speculation , dunk is right suarez and his agent should man up and put in a transfer request or report back to training knuckle down and get ready for the season .

agreed. he is acting like a brat. as soon as the season ended he should have handed in a transfer request.

i agree either he puts in a transfer request or he knuckles down , in other words either put up or shut up !!!!

I might be mistaken, but, didn't you say some time ago that we performed better without him, especially last year?

Agree with that. Can't beleive everyone beleives what is written in the press.

how is suarez fueling this? it seems like it was leaked by liverpool executives and not his agent. You have an agenda against Suarez which I can understand but try to stick to facts and not create things or use what people on here may say as fact

LFC have not asked arsenal to bid , suarez's agent would have done it through the network of agents thats how it works agents fuel it

they can bid all they want regardless of what an agent does or doesn't. they might agree a fee with a club but not agree terms with a player and his agent as often happens.

To say a club can't bid for a player without going through his agent is farcical.