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Paul.S
i have the view that i would sell anyone if that sale released funds that maeant we improved the team. it may be that you need to buy 2 or 3 players etc.
with the current form it looks extremely difficult to improve the team by selling him or maybe impossible.
Long may he continue in this form its great to watch, i worry what happens if he gets injured so we need to build in other areas but I would worry if we built the team around him and he left.
Instead of looking one way and being concerned at the potential loss of Suarez, I prefer to look the other and consider that we have a World Class player to build a team around.
If we can buy another very good player (or two) then we have a team to truly fear and that can contribute goals.
Sterling, Shelvey and Suso are looking very good, Lucas is coming back, the back four are reasonably solid (need a left back!) and we're starting to get Rodgers' way of playing.
I'd say things are looking very bright for us. Stop worrying about Suarez and start looking forward to a bright future!
Yet, imagine if he was the Footballer of the Year. There would be uproar, protests, arguments, quite probably resignations. A breakaway black union without doubt, if he won the PFA vote, a very awkward few weeks for representatives of the media if he topped any poll of journalists.
An unrepentant horror as an example to the next generation, it would be fiendishly hard to justify his glorification, almost inexcusable. Yet is he the best player in the league? This minute, by a mile.
Those crowned Footballer of the Year tend to be winners. It seemed incongruous two years ago when Scott Parker collected the prize in a season that ended in relegation for his club, West Ham United.
The case for Suarez would be different. It would be based on his contribution to a former member of the elite, Liverpool, and how far a great club might have tumbled without him.
There was certainly a similar case for Chris Waddle at Tottenham Hotspur one season, when the club could easily have slipped into the bottom three without his frequent interventions. Yet Suarez won't win and can't win, we know that.
He has been associated with too much of football's dark side - racism, simulation - to rise above the negativity. He refused to shake hands with Evra, at first, even though the wronged man made the first move, he openly mocked David Moyes when the Everton manager dared to suggest he went to ground too easily. And yet despite the opprobrium, Suarez stays strong.
If no-one likes him, see if he cares. Perhaps this is why, as well as being this season's best footballer he is also one that troubles the soul.
Suarez does not do sorry, he does not do contrition and, in this, demands to be considered only for his art. Will he care if recognition is not his at the end of the season? Probably not. As Pound said on his release from a lengthy stint of hard labour: 'I've had it worse.'
Most people hate Suarez, whether they formed an opinion themselves or were gullible enough to accept everything they read. It doesn't matter to us, Suarez doesn't need plaudits he just needs to keep on scoring goals. He is a cunt and if he played for any other team we'd hate him too.
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