Luis Suárez

[EwarWoo]

If they are going to spend upwards of £40m on a player then they will have to break the wage structure.

To be honest the wage structure thing is a bit of a myth anyway they had the fourth highest wage bill at £143m 11/12 season. United were 3rd with £162m and we were 5th with £119m.

I dunno, it's not just that. Even if it does turn out to all be true I still think it's all about the football for him.

[Sarb]

Wenger ranted about Suarez being a diver and a cheat and it doesn't seem to have deterred Suarez.

Suarez is not the brightest to be honest. I think Pere and him were using Arsenal to flush out interest from Madrid and test out the clause. I'm not 100% convinced how much desire he has to go to Arsenal though

[Shaggy]

Maybe someone should bombard his twitter with that. He probably wouldn't give a **** though.

"Suarez got the penalty last weekend... it was no penalty. Nobody touched him.”

“Where they go overboard is that nobody touched him. I can understand if they push the ball too far but when no one touches him... Then, when they roll down the sock, take the shin pad out like he has been kicked like mad. It's a bit overboard.”

“Everyone who has played football can understand they try to win the penalty but when he goes completely, afterwards, to get a bit more … we don't need that."

But now Koscielny has ensured Suarez's behaviour is up for debate once again.

“Who is the forward I hate to face? Suarez," Koscielny said to L'Equipe. “Last season I didn’t feel too well. It was a match at 12.30pm and I don’t like that schedule.

“He is tiresome to defend against. He cheats. He pulls your shirt, giving small blows. You always want to give him a kick but you have to be careful not to be sent off.

“For example on September 2 against Liverpool, it was the case with Luis Suarez.

“He is a player who likes to dive as soon as there is contact. During a challenge we jostled a bit each other and he fell.

"He started to talk to me in English, to say it was a penalty.”

[MrMichael]

If we can't sell him to a foregin club for £50m+ then we should keep him. No way that we should sell him to Arsenal whatever the player want.

As already been mentioned many times, selling him to Arsenal would mean that we have more or less no chance to finish in the top four.

If we sell him to them then I would blame the club as much as I would blame Suarez.

We shouldn't not do that, that would be crazy.

Dortmund don't sell players to their biggest rivals do they? They had to sell Götze because Bayern activated the clause and in the Lewandowski case they refused to sell him to them. They said no to €20m+. He will leave on a free next season but their rather keep him and miss out on the money.

They would have accepted a move if he had moved to a foreign club but not Bayern.

Torsten Frings

I take your point here Arn and idealistically you are right, it would be great if we just told Luis to stfu and made him honour his contract. However that just isn't how the football world works any more, and picking one example of Dortmund, and one player (who they probably would have sold to Bayern were it not for the Gotze thing) is not really very representative.

In other leagues big players switch between clubs on a relatively regular basis and while it would definitely stick in many of our throats if Suarez is sold to Arsenal, if he is determined to force a move there, there are no other options AND they stump up our valuation I actually think it would be counterproductive, and very disruptive, if we did stick our fingers in our ears.

We could do a lot with a well spent £55m. 6 Coutinho-esque buys, difficult though they would be to find, would improve us significantly more than keeping a pissed-off Suarez, however good he may be.

[spider-neil]

Hopefully this is sorted one way or the other by next week because if this drags into next and August this is going to undermine our new season preperations (if they have already).

[Sarb]

With a transfer committee in place in the UK, it will be highly annoying if we use this saga as an excuse for us taking our eye off it regarding signing players.

[spider-neil]

Links for attacking players seem to have dried up, maybe the reason we are so reluctant to let go of Suarez even though he clearly wants out.

[Shaggy]

Since Wenger last won a trophy, LFC have won an FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League and the Super Cup

[dom9]

No way are Arsenal gonna go up to £55m.

I still want him to stay. Big time. I've defended him all through the flirting with Real Madrid but this desire to join Arsenal has royally ****ed me off. If he joins them he can get to ****. I'm fed up of him, but I don't really care that he's acting like a total arsehole, I want his skills in the side. He won't down tools like Torres did because I don't believe he's capable - if he stays I'm certain he'd be flat out as he always is. Stay for another year, get us into the top 4, stay, attract CL players next season and watch us fly. Gwan Luis. Gwan.

This has pretty much been my point of view since the bite.

[Fredo]

Think he'll stay. It's just about Arsenal posturing IMO.

[Kenneth]

Torsten Frings

I take your point here Arn and idealistically you are right, it would be great if we just told Luis to stfu and made him honour his contract. However that just isn't how the football world works any more, and picking one example of Dortmund, and one player (who they probably would have sold to Bayern were it not for the Gotze thing) is not really very representative.

In other leagues big players switch between clubs on a relatively regular basis and while it would definitely stick in many of our throats if Suarez is sold to Arsenal, if he is determined to force a move there, there are no other options AND they stump up our valuation I actually think it would be counterproductive, and very disruptive, if we did stick our fingers in our ears.

We could do a lot with a well spent £55m. 6 Coutinho-esque buys, difficult though they would be to find, would improve us significantly more than keeping a pissed-off Suarez, however good he may be.

I agree but the problem is likely to be that arsenal have no intention of matching our valuation.

[spider-neil]

Think he'll stay. It's just about Arsenal posturing IMO.

I think barring Suarez refusing to play/taking them to court (making Liverpool desparate to get rid) the fee will be 50m + and I think they will pay it.
Arsenal have a lot of money in the bank, a stadium that is paid off and restless fans that are sick and tired of their penny pinching.
From Arsenal's point of view they would be picking up a premiership player who is easily in the top five players in the world who hardly ever gets injured and works his arse off. I think the fact that Suarez is doesn't bother them at all.

[MrMichael]

I agree but the problem is likely to be that arsenal have no intention of matching our valuation.

Then they can most definitely **** off

My argument is with the "shouldn't sell to Arsenal at any price" line. We most definitely shouldn't sell to Arsenal for £40,000,002 or whatever their next pisstake offer will be.

[Corndog]

I don't understand the surprise at some of his antics, he has never been a 'stand up guy' since he has arrived. He definitely comes across a bit thick imo.

I also don't understand why he would want to join another club in the league when they constantly sing 'Luis Suarez you know what you are' implying he is a racist. Personally, that'd put me off if i was in his position but then again i probably wouldn't have bitten an opponent either.

He is a fabulous player and i think with the way the market appears to be at the moment i'd rather keep him. I'll have no problem cheering him on next season if he stays with us because despite this saga, i am a fan of his football skills not himself as a person and tbh never really was, probably to do with all the gesticulating and arm-waving/whinging he does.

[Sarb]

Thing is, I don't get why some are so confident that if he ends up staying he'll give 110%. I'm not so confident on that one. If he's at the stage after all his backing that he considers legal action against us to get a move then I don't believe he'd actually give 110% if he stays.