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I know that a lot of you are 'upset' that he has said "anything can happen in football". Some of you are probably already burning your shirts and hanging Suarez effigies from the nearest oak tree. Others may have burning torches and pitch forks ready to run him out of town for refusing to say that he wants to stay at LFC until he's 83 'cos we're "the biggest and bestest club in the universe." Fine......

However, if you look at it from a 'football' perspective it makes no sense to sell our best player, considering he has 4 years left on his contract. Let him earn his transfer and leave next year - by then, he might have fired us into the CL and will want to stay anyway. If not, he will have given 100%, as he always does, and could be even more valuable in 12 months time.

The problem with Liverpool Football Club receiving £50m for him is that we cannot attract players of a sufficient calibre to replace him. Everytime we have a quality target in sight we immediately become the player's second choice once his agent alerts other clubs as to his availability. Of course, we could do what we have been doing and use £50m to buy 4 or 5 'good' players, but that isn't what we need. We need Suarez or someone like him, but 'someone like him' wouldn't want to come to Liverpool so the money will end up wasted.

meanwhile back in the real world

Interesting post Carheex and i agree with a lot of what you say, however, i just dont see the point of keeping a player that wants away. Although, having said that, i cant see him not giving 100%..he's that kinda guy, if he's on the pitch, he'll give you his all. Good post. Something to think about for the owners.

Absolutely. It's in his best interest to perform out of his skin. If he sulks and plays badly for the next 12 months would any top club still want him? no. Keeping him until next summer is the clever thing to do.

Part of Brendan's job is to make the players happy - anyone can sell a player that is getting itchy feet, but that's not good management. Cantona, Beckham, Rooney, Modric, Fabregas, Ronaldo etc all wanted to leave thier clubs, but they were made to wait by good managers. You don't just give in when it's your best player in question and there's no real possibility of attracting someone of equal quality. Not unless his departure is being orchestrated between the club and the agent, who both want to make a nice profit......

Oh dear.
This really has got to stop.
+1

meanwhile, bit disappointed by this alledged comment

Luis Suarez has offered encouragement to Arsenal to increase their bid for him by claiming that Arsene Wenger's interest makes him feel "valued".

Not the arsenal bit, which is a load of ole bollox anyway imo, but the 'feeling valued' bit.
I was hoping that he feels very valued both by LFC and the vast majority of our fans tbh, never mind some random club that are merely sniffing.

I read a 'supposed' transcript of an interview where he mentioned about 'feeling valued'. It seemed that he was saying he was surprised at the valuation and interest considering his chequered disciplinary record. Personally, I don't find that particularly upsetting. Surely people have more important things to worry about.

I don't know how people are getting so livid about it if they actually read it. In it, he literally laughed at the idea of going to Chelsea. I agree with car full stop. This whole business of "he wants to go, sell him!" crap is insane. The most he said is "anything can happen" and that he'll talk to BR and the board on the 21.

To those who are angry that he might not completely happy, well Of course he's not completely happy here! Even if he loves the club as much as he claims he does, we have finished 6th, 8th, and 7th for the three seasons he's been here and we have won only 1 trophy. I don't want any of our players happy with that, and Suarez wants to be a winner.

We can't afford to have the attitude that "if he doesn't want to wear the shirt, he doesn't deserve to wear the shirt" anymore, because we aren't the club that dominated the football world back in the 80s. We aren't even the team we were under Rafa or Houlier. Until we have a replacement that we know will work, anyone wanting him to leave is daft.

He can't afford to sulk if we don't sell him because next year is a world cup year, and he needs to play. He'll give 100% like he always does, and he'll honor his contract as long as Liverpool owns it. Selling him would be a terrible mistake.

Spot on Carheex. A realistic look at the situation. People forget he signed a four year contract, we are in control. Even if he came out sulking in the press for us 'blocking' a transfer (a huge IF anyway, I don't think he's being petulant at all, just an athlete wanting to make the most of his career), then he would be over it by the time he is off his ban anyway. He would be itching to play. And if he was still desperate for a transfer, he would be playing for one. Win win for us.

Yeah, i think Carheex got this thread spot on. I wonder how Faz and SP feel about it though? I agree with it, as he said, all great clubs and managers have dealt with simillar situations in the past, its time we did the same.

Completely agree car. Spurs keeping Modric the other year didn't work out too bad for them so why should it be different for Suarez?

He's our player, has another four years on his contract so we hold the cards here.