Luis Suárez

[Slinky Skills]

Has this prick left yet or what?

[Norbs]

[Shaggy]

Damian @DamianLFCpl
Luis Suarez agent insists £40 million bid will trigger release from Liverpool - Tony Barrett, The Times

[Shaggy]

[Gibbo]

**** off man.

[Chazza]

Arsenal ready to offer £40m to lure Luis Suarez

Luis Suárez’s representatives believe that Liverpool’s resolve to keep the striker can only be tested when a £40million clause in the striker’s contract is activated.

By Chris Bascombe10:30PM BST 16 Jul 2013

Liverpool insist that they will be under no obligation to sell Suárez even if this valuation is met. They believe it entitles them only to inform Suárez of the approach, but this position will be examined if – or when – a side offers that much. For Suárez and his advisors, such a bid is sure to prompt them into thinking he is entitled to make his Anfield exit.

Until such an offer is made, Liverpool have been able to stand firm maintaining that they rate *Suárez even higher than the £50 million they received for Fernando Torres when he was sold to Chelsea two years ago. The only bid received so far has been from Arsenal, as reported by The Daily Telegraph on July 7, and confirmed by Liverpool’s managing director Ian Ayre this week.

There are suggestions that Arsène Wenger is prepared to increase his offer to £35 million. However, it has now emerged that the first Arsenal bid would have eventually increased to that amount based on Suarez’s appearances and success in north London.
Should Arsenal make a *second bid, it will inevitably be above £35 million in order to eclipse the opening offer. Most likely, Wenger will agree to pay £40 million for Suárez to keep ahead of Real Madrid and other suitors in the chase for the striker. It will be at that point the saga will get messy as Liverpool try to resist Suárez’s sale regardless of the contract clause.

The club want the player and not the proceeds of his transfer as they are discovering how difficult it is to recruit – and in Suárez’s case keep – high-class players when you have no Champions League football to offer.

Liverpool are interested in 20-year-old Brazilian winger Bernard and have approached his club, Atletico Mineiro. Bernard has a release clause of around £20 million, but the South American is wanted by several Champions League clubs, Arsenal believed to be among them.

As with the recent pursuit of Armenian Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Liverpool are vulnerable to having prime targets lured elsewhere to play in the elite competition.

Stewart Downing, meanwhile, has informed Liverpool he has no wish to leave the club for West Ham. Sam Allardyce was prepared to pay £8 million for the former England winger, but Downing wants to fight for his position at Anfield.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/10184058/Arsenal-ready-to-offer-40m-to-lure-Luis-Suarez.html

[Dessy]

**** it, let the arse have Suarez for £40 mill on the proviso that they take Downing for **** all as part of the deal!

[Shaggy]

Hold firm for £50m and don't ****ing sell to Arsenal. Very easy to say no.

[Leyton388]

Sadly, and I mean that with a heavy heart, players of today are not prepared to work with a team in transition to get back into the place they all as players crave.

They want it all, and they want it now, and if that means moving with the bonus of a huge signing on fee after one or two seasons, then thats what they do.

Very rare these days to find a top class, and I mean top top class player, who is willing to work with a team that has an amazing history, to get back where it should be, when he can sign for a team that is already in that place.

Loyalty is a thing of the past, and the sooner we get used to it the better.

SG and JC are the last of a breed, legends and heroes in football are stories we can only tell our kids about, they no longer exist.

If the reports are true about LS wanting out, then he is no better than Torres and Owen, especially after all the support he has had during his, shall we say, darker moments.

[Chazza]

How can there be any confusion over the clause? Surely it is laid out in the contract?

Get the feeling this is going to get very messy.

[Kenneth]

Hold firm for £50m and don't ****ing sell to Arsenal. Very easy to say no.

Although it might not be, depending on legal interpretation of his contract.

[Shaggy]

Again though I go back to Cavani. £55m. Suarez is better than him. £40m's a joke really.

[Gibbo]

Selling him to Arsenal wouldn't be a very good idea at all.

Strengthening our direct rivals, who are in my opinion are Spurs and Arsenal is something we should avoid at all costs. I would honestly rather sell him to Chelsea than Arsenal.

I've got a weird feeling Madrid aren't going to come with a bid.

[Shaggy]

As much as I'd hate it, I'd also rather sell him to Chelsea.

[Chazza]

Rooney to Chelsea
Ibrahimovic to Madrid
Suarez to Arsenal

LFC with £40m, a big hole to fill and selling clubs driving up the prices.