Luis Suárez

[frank the tank]

why should uruguay be allowed to appeal without LFCs buy-in. In reality, if that is increased to 6 months - from all football - then why should LFC be focked over again...

This whole thing is a joke to be honest. A sick one. I hope LFC take a new stance where we refuse to release players for international duties (or at the very least, make all our players pull out through injury - a-la ferguson). If a player can get banned from all football by FIFA, then why should we take the risk on it....

FIFA just making it up as they go along. They have bought into the whole danny mills malarky hook line and ****in sinker.... the cunts....

Another thing - i wouldn't pay Suarez for that period either. The clown. In fact, i would sign someone else and make Suarez pay his wages over that period as well.

[chadrtc]

Thing is, there's been worse acts on a football pitch for far lesser cautions. The ones mentioned above; Pepe standing on Messi's hand, Mourinho's eye gouge etc which get minimal punishment and are more or less forgotten. It's not like he bit a chunk out of his arm, so I'm struggling to comprehend where 4 months come from despite him being a repeat offender.

Obviously I agree, he's a ****ing idiot and shouldn't have put himself in this position in the first place.

But are there any where the offender has recommitted the same crazy act with this regularity? It sucks, but he fully deserves this punishment... We don't, but that's the way it goes when you employ crazy people.

Personally, when the ban is over I would not add him to our Champions League squad as punishment for his actions.

[Resu]

Is it better to have Suarez for 29 games next season than not at all?

Depends on the money we get and how the replacement does. There is also the risk of having him 20 games, before he gets his next ban. Will he be able to keep the quality if he has to restrain himself, especially in big matches. So many questions, so few answers. He certainly is a gift to any kind of media.

[chadrtc]

I'm not defending him you ****ing numpty.

I'm pointing out that other acts of deliberate violent conduct do not get treated the same. Where have I once said what he is done is acceptable. I'll give you a clue. He'll have done it again before you find it.

As I have said previously in this thread, the bite is being punished because of its shock factor, because you dont see it. But to suggest it is worse than deliberately headbutting or elbowing someone is madness.

Discussion over.

[frank the tank]

Look on the bright side of life - our points tally was quite good for the last 8 PL he missed from biting ban & this probably means Lambert will get more game time which is good to see.

what a ****in retarded opinion

[dom9]

[Buzzo]

'...All footballing Activities'.

He will need to put his Champ manager season on hold.

[G]

I think we have found a positive.

So if they increase the ban after the appeal, what is the minimum number of games we'd accept him being available for?

I don't think it matters. He had a price before all this and he's still worth that price IMO, his worth on the pitch far outweighs the ban possibilities, for us at least. I think it's unlikely anyone will want to pay that price now so we have to decide if we sell him on the cheap or keep him til he redeems himself yet again and sell on the next upward curve.

It'd be the latter for me.

[baronvonskidmark]

It seems incredibly harsh that we have been the ones who have taken proactive steps all season to help him with these problems and when he goes off to play for another team who don't do the same - indeed they actually indulge him as a national hero - we end up also getting punished. And arguably more severely.

That is no justice at all.

[dom9]

It seems incredibly harsh that we have been the ones who have taken proactive steps all season to help him with these problems and when he goes off to play for another team who don't do the same - indeed they actually indulge him as a national hero - we end up also getting punished. And arguably more severely.

That is no justice at all.

Or you could argue that he is a 27 year old adult who should not need such mollycoddling everywhere he goes.

If he can't be trusted to manage himself, why should anyone else take the rap for it?

I'm just really pissed off that this has affected us. The punishment is ground breaking in that regard, and completely without merit imo.

[wiw]

why should uruguay be allowed to appeal without LFCs buy-in. In reality, if that is increased to 6 months - from all football - then why should LFC be focked over again...

This whole thing is a joke to be honest. A sick one. I hope LFC take a new stance where we refuse to release players for international duties (or at the very least, make all our players pull out through injury - a-la ferguson). If a player can get banned from all football by FIFA, then why should we take the risk on it....

FIFA just making it up as they go along. They have bought into the whole danny mills malarky hook line and ****in sinker.... the cunts....

Another thing - i wouldn't pay Suarez for that period either. The clown. In fact, i would sign someone else and make Suarez pay his wages over that period as well.

what a ****in retarded opinion

As is the bit in bold

[frank the tank]

As is the bit in bold

touche!!!

[Norbs]

That 4 month ban will not hold up, not when it doesn't affect him mostly on an International scale.

Very harsh on Liverpool, deserved for Suarez though in all honesty.
He's done it to himself, 3rd time FFS.

That's the problem, IMO. It's Suarez who is banned, the fact that he plays for us seems to be irrelevent. The banning from ALL football is to stop us from picking the ruling apart to suit our needs

[Leyton388]

He's a ****ing prick who's cost this club dear. He wont be ready to play until December with him not.

[RedAndWhite]

He's a ****ing prick who's cost this club dear. He wont be ready to play until December with him not.

Nothing stopping Stevie and the lads popping over to Luis for a knock about after training is there - as surely FIFA cannot control people private lives.