Luis Suarez - Non LFC

[Fierce]

Really? Hmm, I'll look into that.

I'm on Android

Further though, it only happens when I'm browsing in landscape rather than portrait mode. Which I guess is connected to the way the phone works, I can watch a video in the browser when in portrait, but if I click play on a video on a website whilst in landscape it takes up the whole screen and changes to what appears to be a video player of sorts

Cool post bro

[McDermotX]

[Assassin]

[Vermilion]

We should send this guy in a Barca shirt.

Bloody hell! Barca's shirt is proper ****e! probably quite hot too!

[peekay]

Paul Tomkins has really let himself go.

Suarez is perhaps the first footballer to move in two opposite directions at once. Double-jointed knees, triple-jointed ankles, shoulders that dropped left and right as if dislocating before popping back into place as a bamboozled defender tackled fresh air.

More than anything, he is an animal, fierce and feral, fighting tooth and nail, using all his cunning.

His lungs are bovine; his balance feline; and, for good and bad, his instincts vulpine: a fox in the box who can also open the chicken pen and make off with its contents. He has the balls of an elephant, the hide of a rhino, the dive of a swan, the fangs of a viper and the bloodlust of a lion.

http://tomkinstimes.com/2014/07/luis-suarez-is-an-animal/

[Cormack74]

Meant to post yesterday but forgot: Marca were reporting the Barca president's claim that the fee was less than €85m and he would reveal exactly how much when Luis is unveiled. Think that's about £67m.

[G]

Yeah Ballague interviewed him. He asked was the fee €81m and El Presidente confirmed that it was around that and the full fee would be confirmed.

If we stay silent when they confirm it I'd be worried it's the correct fee. However they lied through their teeth over Neymar's fee so you never know.

[Phoenix07]

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has given the clearest possible hint he thinks Luiz Suarez's bite ban should be cut.

Barcelona-bound Liverpool striker Suarez has an appeal to FIFA's disciplinary committee, after he was banned for nine international games and from all footballing activities for four months for chomping Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during a World Cup group match, dismissed last week.

The Uruguay star is not now appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne and, in a move that appeared to undercut his own organisation's process, Blatter said he felt Suarez had been unduly punished.

Blatter, speaking at the final 2014 World Cup press conference in Rio's Maracana stadium, said: "Concerning disciplinary cases, they are to be dealt with by independent committees.

"It's not like the past, when we had designated committees and could tell them what to do. We are now in a democratic system, with independent jurisdiction in FIFA.

"But concerning Suarez, as a footballer, I feel for him. I feel such a punishment hurts, it hurts.

"As president of FIFA I have to accept the decisions taken by an independent committee. But I hope this player will come back to football because, on the pitch, he showed before his suspension, his capacity technical, tactical and how he smells the goal with two great goals against England.

"He will be back. He is now at one of the greatest clubs in the world and he will confirm his position as one of the great players."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...s-luis-3861118

[McDermotX]

You having a ****ing pop Blatter ???

[Norbs]

I would truly thump him if I met him, sod the consequences

[RichC]

Whilst it'd be ****ing tempting he's almost 80!!!

[Yozza]

Johan Cruyff says ex-Liverpool star is bad for Barca team

BARCELONA legend Johan Cruyff has warned his former side that Luis Suarez's impending arrival could be detrimental to their title hopes, and slammed the club's forward line as overly individualistic.

Writing in his column for Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Cruyff bemoaned Suarez's £75m arrival - believing he will compromise the Catalan giants' universally applauded style of play.

He said: "I can't see how Barca intend to continue playing the same way, with a keen focus on team play, if Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez are in the side.

"The three of them are too individual.

"In signing Suarez, the club are showing a preference for individual genius over a team that plays great football."

Cruyff's renowned love for 'total football' is perhaps the root of his concern for Luis Enrique's rapidly changing side.

The loss of both Xavi and Carles Puyol and the acquisition of Suarez perhaps signals a shift away from the tiki-taka style of play firmly rooted in the La Liga sides DNA.

Cruyff continued to say that the new-look front three would make Barcelona "good for action, but not a good footballing team as a whole."

And he warned: "The style of play developed under Frank Rijkaard and Pep Guardiola is being wiped out."

[Vermilion]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K86J1q4_yzc"]SUAREZ BITE - Suarez in JAWS REMAKE by 442oons (football cartoon) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyqK68BMnnc"]LUIS SUAREZ BITE - Silence of the Lambs style! by 442oons (football cartoon parody) - YouTube[/ame]

[Le Chef]

Anyone think Messi may be off, perhaps City or PSG

[Kenneth]

I don't.