Read this from January:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footbal...ons-League.htmlLUIS SUAREZ EXCLUSIVE: Even if Liverpool fail to qualify for the Champions League, I will stay... this is the club of my dreamsRight at the end of the interview, Luis Suarez delivers the line that will bring some light to a rather dark week at Liverpool Football Club.
Asked what he will do if Liverpool do not qualify for the Champions League this season, Suarez is cryptic at first. And then, unexpectedly, categorical.
'I will wait until the end of the season and see how we are doing,' he says. 'We won't know until then how we are doing and what our position is so I am prepared to wait until that time.
'But I want to say now that, if you want to know what will happen to me if we don't qualify for the Champions League, then I will say this: I have a contract with Liverpool and I am very happy here. I will stay.'
Suarez has said some peculiar things during his Anfield stay but here, in a small interview room at the club's Melwood training centre, the Uruguayan is right on message. It is perhaps as well.
There have been times this season when one wonders exactly what would have happened to Liverpool had it not been for their remarkable striker.
Suarez is the kid who used to pretend to be Liverpool manager on his PlayStation back home in South America, the kid whose dream came true.
In 84 games in his two years at Anfield, the 26-year-old has scored 43 goals. Much has been said and written about him during this time that has not been about his football. Although inevitable, given what has happened, it is also unfortunate when he remains one of the most remarkable talents in the game.
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard paid his team-mate - and the man who captained the side in Gerrard's absence last weekend - the most striking tribute, telling newspapers Suarez is the best centre forward he has featured alongside in his decade-and-a-half in professional football.
When I mention to Suarez that this moves to one side players such as Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler, Fernando Torres and, with England, Wayne Rooney, he puffs out his cheeks. Briefly, he looks like that teenager at home in Montevideo again.
'I get goose pimples when I hear he said that,' said Suarez. 'In my country, we call it Carne de Gallina. Like the skin of a chicken. That's how I feel.
'Gerrard is such a good player and what he said about me I will never forget. It's unbelievable. He has such a good record over many years in the English game and is a great example to all the players here, especially to me.
'We all respect him. He has won almost everything and if anything goes wrong on the pitch he never tells the players off. He just speaks to them afterwards and when he speaks to them you can take it as a fact that he is right. He is just trying to help people.
'Steven has also said things to me in private that I will never forget, about things that have happened and things that I can do here. These are conversations that players have. People don't hear them but they are so important. They make a difference to a person like me, to my career and my life.
'The ones we had are private but say everything about him. Steven has given me motivation to carry on and do well with what he has said. He has helped me hugely.'
It goes on....
