Luis Suarez vs Italy
Luis Suarez will miss the start of the Premier League season. What’s new? He craved Champions League football, but now he will miss Liverpool’s first three games in the competition. Liverpool will have to make do without their talisman until October.
It remains to be seen whether his ban, which includes “administrative activities” extends to transfers (as depending on the source, it does, or doesn’t). If it does he may not leave the club in this window. What is clear though, is that if he leaves he has handed any potential buyer the upper hand in negotiations.
Like many Kopites, I went into the World Cup fully expecting there to be drama surrounding Luis Suarez. His new contract and recent declarations about how happy he was at Liverpool did little to reassure. Being a realist I thought there was every chance that he wouldn’t be lining up against Southampton on the opening day of the season, but I did have hope.
Turns out all of my worst fears have been realised. However, what I could never have expected was that our number seven would once again dramatically press the self destruct button. That he chose to do it on the biggest stage in world football simply adds insult to injury.
Last season all our troubles seemed so far away. The rehabilitated Suarez was conquering all and collecting plaudits everywhere he went. He spoke glowingly of Life in Liverpool (the city and the club). His work with Steve Peters, we were assured meant he was a changed man. His wife had also waded in asking him to ‘do it for the children’.
Has Luis used up all of Reds fans’ good will?
To be fair to Luis he did. His disciplinary record last season was exemplary. Gone too were the histrionics that usually accompanied a decision going against him. We seemed to be witnessing a true redemption. Here was a player who had cast aside all of his negative baggage, whilst losing none of his brilliance.
However, just as he has done before Suarez has shown that the mad man is never far from the surface. We now face losing Suarez not to a rival or Spanish superpower, but to yet another ban. Our troubles, it seems are here to stay.
Brendan Rodgers must have his head in his hands. We don’t know what FSG or our main sponsors make of it, but you can be sure that the transatlantic phone-lines will have been busy over the last couple of days.
It is hard to see what Suarez could say or do to repair the damage he has done to his image and by extension his club. His position at Liverpool is surely untenable.
So here we are in the midst of one of the most important summers in years and our manager is having to tear up his transfer plans. He may well have prepared a plan for replacing Luis should Madrid eventually get their man, but he would have been banking on circa £100 million with which to source a suitable alternative. He can forget that now.
A transfer to one of the Spanish clubs seems inevitable. Probably in January. The best we can hope for is that Brendan can maximise the fee.
On every level Luis Suarez has royally screwed the club. Yes he has potentially wrecked his own career and while as a human being I have some sympathy for this, it is the damage to my club that concerns me the most.
This should have been a summer of promise, of hope and joyous expectation. Instead we find ourselves back at square one and picking up the pieces after another reckless suicidal moment from our fatally flawed genius.
I don’t know about you, but I have had enough.
Nope I rather have Suarez for half a season than not have him at all. Best player in the Premiership by a mile. Any team would be weaker without him. If he stays at Liverpool he will still bag over 20 goals next season.
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its somehow good for some of us liverpool fans who never want surez to leav at all.
Already scousers bleating with Aldridge on Sky Sports News saying unfair to ban him for Liverpool as when Ivanovic incident occurred & he was banned, Suarez was able to play for Uruguay.
So thick as that incident was under our FA jurisdiction & if Liverpool had been in Champs/Europa Lges he could have played.
Latest incident was under FIFA jurisdiction which encompasses Worldwide game.
Liverpool should fine him 4 months wages as he’s let them down & won’t be available to play for them but no doubt that as usual they will revel in playing the victim!
Not bleating mate, more hopeful now that he will stay, the lad makes mistakes, but he sure can play football and he has the talent most of us can only dream of, but your a hater and hater is going to hate and that is not a mistake, so what’s great talent?
As a Liverpool fan,i agree that suarez is a world class player,but me I have had enough
Balls, we all know that he will be banned for 4 months, but its not the end of the world, the boy will be back soon enough, and going by his previous record after suffering long bans he will be better than ever when he does. I can live with his madness because his genius is just magnificent.
What some people aren’t seeing is that Suarez is now likely to leave Liverpool more than ever, No individual is greater than Liverpool FC . Liverpool have clearly had enough. After sticking by him last summer and risk spoiling its name, I don’t see a repeat of that again. Sadly this incident might have lowered his price, so the best thing for Liverpool FC to do is to try and secure the best possible deal.
What you don’t understand is that he is vital to our future. Talking long after he’s gone to pastures new.
Secure top 4 next season and it cements our place at the top. Man U debts will start to bite, harder than luis. Once our future top 4/stadium is done. Let him go.
Had enough? Why? Did he brake someone’s leg?
Let’s put it into prospective. To us, he is worth another top 4 place, which is priceless.
All the image crap? We are liverpool, and the face of the club is one Steven Gerrard.
Business comes first. If we can secure another top 4 place with Suarez. So be it!
Ynwa
I think sponsors might disagree Erin
What about the barca sponsors? Last time I checked, he’s not going to play in Dundee…..
You reckon, or you just repeating what all the non Liverpool fans have been desperately hoping would happen for the last two years or so. Man grow some balls and support your player and your team and stop been such wuss. Its not like he broke legs deliberately, knocked the stuffing out of a fan, elbowed players in the jaw, raked his studs on a players face, stomped on heads, stabbed someone, shot up the local mall with an uzi, beheaded people in the name of an imaginary friend, started world war 3 and released Barney on the planet. Get some bloody perspective!
Luis!!!!luis!!!!luis!!!!!!!…..the talk of the day again…….am just short of words..sincerely speaking,don’t know what to say…..ynwa 4 life
I love the fact that he knocked England out & I’m laughing at the bile being spewed at him from fans of other clubs 🙂
He will be back soon to haunt you all like he did Hodgson & gets my full support.
Ferdinand banned for 6 months for missing drugs test.
Cantona banned for 6 months for assaulting a fan.
Fergie kept both scumbags with a ‘win at all costs’ attitude.
Suarez banned for 4 months for a pathetic little bite. We need a sense of perspective. Has to stay for me. Only world class player we have.
Wow! Everyone had enough! Enough of what? Don’t just simply assume that letting Suarez leave is a smart thing. He bit Ivanovich, gets punished and came back and helped us to 2nd in the table,after more than 4 years back to UCL. Banged in 31goals. During that time the English press devoured him and pushed us to get rid of him. But the funny thing was,not a single paper said or rediculed Arsenal for bidding for Suarez. Now, Suarez bit someone again and everyone wants to get rid of him and again every LFC fan who wants to see him out fail to notice that of all teams, this time Barca and Real waiting to pounce. Every person has a darkside, for Suarez its his habit of biting. BR managed to control him last season and we all saw the outcome. As his title says” a flawed genius”. Habits can’t be changed but definitely can be controlled.