Luis Suárez

[ntto]

I'd still keep him. Even instead of £71m

[dom9]

I think when Torres left it felt like the club was in serious danger of freefall whereas we do seem to be going places with everything on and off the pitch.

True, but Torres really got in the neck. I guess the fact he went to Chelsea - a direct rival made matters worse. If Suarez was going to Chelsea now, I image there would be less good will about.

[I, Ravel Morrison]

I'm honestly quite surprised at how pragmatic most people on here seem to be about this. The difference in reaction between this and Torres is considerable.

Looking back at the time each had with us, I still preferred Torres to Suarez.

We worship Suarez's outrageous skill and tenacity on the field but Torres, I feel, was the more beloved player. We thought of Torres as one of us, underlined by writeups such as 'The King and the Kid', as a player who got the Kop.

[RedReet]

Not angry, you gotta kind of accept if you get a Spanish/Portuguese speaker and he's boss it's likely he'll end up at one of them two cunty clubs. But cant be cheering him on or anything. I'll be interested to see how his relationship with Messi goes though, cant be shouting at him the way he does when Sturridge ****s up or shoots and misses when a pass was on. And he goes mental when teammates don't press, Messi was Berbatov esque last season.

I think he will.

He may not be as aggressive, but i don't think he'll be able to take that away from his game.

[RedReet]

Didn't score many though did he. Maybe my musings are warped but that game where Gerrard took over, scored and they had a laugh about it. After which Luis carried on missing from all the rest of them!


Edit: at you to Mudds! Maybe they're both not great. Ronaldo gets slaughtered for his efforts too, not easy to score a free kick I suppose.

I thought he did quite well last year. This article from Jan supports mine (and Mudds I assume) views on the subject.

https://www.bsports.com/statsinsights/football/premier-league-free-kick-liverpool-man-city-utd

That being said, Gerrard is a very good free kick taker too and scored some crackers in his time.

[Fierce]

True, but Torres really got in the neck. I guess the fact he went to Chelsea - a direct rival made matters worse. If Suarez was going to Chelsea now, I image there would be less good will about.

This is surely exactly the reason why Torres is loathed and Suarez still loved!

[spider-neil]

I think people are pragmatic about Suarez leaving because;
1) they know if the release clause is meet it is out of our hands.
2) Suarez has serious issues and potential one more misstep about from a ridiculously lengthy ban.
3) he always gave his all and was never going to stay at Liverpool for the rest of his career.

For me personally it's less about him stay now and more how we reinvest the money.

[Roboklopp]

True, but Torres really got in the neck. I guess the fact he went to Chelsea - a direct rival made matters worse. If Suarez was going to Chelsea now, I image there would be less good will about.

We worship Suarez's outrageous skill and tenacity on the field but Torres, I feel, was the more beloved player. We thought of Torres as one of us, underlined by writeups such as 'The King and the Kid', as a player who got the Kop.

This having been said I'm pissed off he won't give us another season when we were so close & back in Europe.

[Slinky Skills]

If he goes for 70 mill it is clearly a lot of money but I can't help but feel disappointed that it's not more.

Was expecting 80 million at least if not a ton.

[Fosterbloke]

We wanted £80m, they wanted to pay £60m.

Meeting pretty much in the middle is not a bad deal. Anything with a 6 in front of it would be disappointing.

Thank Luis for helping us get into the Champions League. Surely that's worth an extra £10m to us (bringing up to £81m!)

[greenbloodred]

£71m is acceptable imo, plus there's the £3m savings in wages (duration of his ban) so I guess you could say its £74m . Not bad for an ageing first class ****ing liability

[Fosterbloke]

£71m is acceptable imo, plus there's the £3m savings in wages (duration of his ban) so I guess you could say its £74m . Not bad for an ageing first class ****ing liability

Good call mate.

[ric.williams]

On the plus side though, at least Stevie will be back on free kick duty, on the whole I think Luis was pretty poor at them for us, last season anyway! Can't be brilliant at everything I suppose.

[I, Ravel Morrison]

This having been said I'm pissed off he won't give us another season when we were so close & back in Europe.

Yeah, it was this, the timing of it, and the fact he went to a direct rival in Chelsea. I still think Torres paired with Suarez could have dramatically lead us to fourth that season.

I remember the mood being '**** off, Torres'. With Suarez it's 'Thanks for the great goals and memories, but you can kindly **** off now.'

[spider-neil]

What's the release clause and why would we accept less?