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Luis Suarez calls on Liverpool to keep promise to let him leave the club this summer as Arsenal waits

Losing patience: Luis Suárez is frustrated by Liverpool's stance over his desire to join Arsenal


By Pete Jenson11:00PM BST 06 Aug 2013
Luis Suárez told Telegraph Sport on Tuesday night that he will hand in a transfer request before the end of the week if Liverpool do not clear the way for him to move to Arsenal.

The player believes he has exhausted all other avenues in his efforts to make Liverpool honour an agreement he says was established at the start of last season, which he believes obliges them to release him to a club playing in the Champions League if they bid more than £40 million for him.

Arsenal’s initial bid exceeded that by £1, but sparked a war of words with the Merseyside club, who insist they will not sell. But in his first big interview this summer, the Uruguayan striker lays bare his frustration at the way his transfer request has become bogged down and has accused the club of misleading Liverpool supporters about his actions and motives

“I want to move to play in the Champions League and there is a club offering me that opportunity,” he said. “I have told the manager that I want to leave the club.

"I am being accused of showing a lack of loyalty but last year I had the opportunity to move to a big European club and I stayed on the understanding that if we did not qualify for the Champions League the following season then I would be allowed to go.

“I gave absolutely everything last season but it was not enough to give us a top-four finish. Now all I want is that Liverpool honour our agreement.

“Last season, we told Liverpool there was interest from a top European club but they told me: ‘we have a new coach, we are going to push for the Champions League’. I spoke with Brendan Rodgers several times and he told me: ‘stay another season, and you have my word, if we don’t make it then I will personally make sure that you can leave’.

“Liverpool is a club with a reputation for doing things the right way, I just want them to abide by the promises made last season.”

Suárez says his contract was amended to include a clause, which, to his understanding, would allow him to leave if an offer for over £40 million came in.

“I have the club’s word and we have the written contract and we are happy to take this to the Premier League for them to decide the case but I do not want it to come to that,” insisted Suárez. “We have the backing of the PFA.”

Suárez signed for Liverpool in January 2011 from Ajax for £22.8 million and starred under Kenny Dalglish scoring 21 goals in 52 games, although his time at Anfield has often been marked by controversy, including being banned for racist comments against Manchester United’s Patrice Evra and also for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic.

When new manager Rodgers came in he wanted to tie the player down until 2016 and increase his wages to £80,000 a week. But Liverpool had a fight on their hands because there was an offer – understood to be from Juventus – on the table.

Suárez says: “That was the moment to show my loyalty to Liverpool and I did. They had given me my chance in England and stood up for me through my ban. I know I have made mistakes in my time here but I have apologised many times over. This is not about that. This is about the club having agreed to something both verbally and in the contract which they are now not honouring.”

But now the player believes Liverpool are unfairly painting a picture of an ungrateful player who simply wants to abandon his club.

“I am 26, I need to be playing in the Champions League. I feel I have done enough to be playing in the Champions League at this stage of my career. Now there is an option for me to do that and I want very much to take it.

“I don’t feel betrayed but the club promised me something a year ago just as I promised them that I would stay and try everything possible to get us into the Champions League.

“They gave me their word a year ago and now I want them to honour that. It is not just something verbal with the coach but something that is written in the contract.

“I don’t think the supporters are angry, I think they understand a player when he has the ambition to triumph at the highest level. I am 26-years-old, I was a long time at Ajax without playing many games in the Champions League. I’m not going to another club to hurt Liverpool.

“I am always going to be grateful to Liverpool for everything. But I have to put my career first. People say Liverpool deserve more from me but I have scored 50 goals in less than 100 games and now I could double the money they paid for me.

“I just ask that they respect the objectives I have in my career. I don’t want things to end badly. I just want us to come to an amicable agreement according to what was agreed.”

Suárez was initially linked this summer with a move to Real Madrid but he denied a move to another English club would simply be a stepping stone to a move to Spain in the near future. He said: “Right now the Premier League is the biggest and most important. My record shows that I am not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season.

“I have no problem playing in England for many more years. If we are just talking about the level of the football and the way the supporters are then it is an incredible league. Any player in the world at the moment would like to play in the Premier League.”

He has also been criticised for citing his relationship with the British press as a reason for wanting to move and then pushing for a switch to another Premier League club.

“I had just arrived in Uruguay where the press are very good to me because I am one of theirs,” he says. “They asked me about the press in England and what am I going to say? Of course I don’t like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.”

Suárez has a foot injury and will miss Wednesday night’s final pre-season friendly against Valerenga.

However, he says most of his team-mates at Liverpool understand his situation: “Some of them had urged me not to go but others understand and especially when I explain to them what was promised last year.”

Steven Gerrard urged the player last week to stay at the club until there in an opportunity to move to Real Madrid or Barcelona and admitted that Liverpool would be taking a step backwards if they allowed him to leave.

Suárez said: “He and the other players have always supported me and I am grateful for that. It is the same with the supporters. I got a great reception at the weekend.

“When you are at a club for as long as you are together you stick up for each other but that does not give the club the right to go back on their commitment.”

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No sources this time - straight from the horses mouth and his reasons for leaving. Maybe now reality can be seen

"I am being accused of showing a lack of loyalty but last year I had the opportunity to move to a big European club and I stayed on the understanding that if we did not qualify for the Champions League the following season then I would be allowed to go.

“I gave absolutely everything last season but it was not enough to give us a top-four finish. Now all I want is that Liverpool honour our agreement.

“Last season, we told Liverpool there was interest from a top European club but they told me: ‘we have a new coach, we are going to push for the Champions League’. I spoke with Brendan Rodgers several times and he told me: ‘stay another season, and you have my word, if we don’t make it then I will personally make sure that you can leave’.

is he to be believed?

no way should we sell him to arsenal, we should tell suarez straight that if a foreign club comes in for him with an acceptable offer then he can go, but no way should we be f##king up our own chances of qualifying for the CL just because he`s desperate to play in it.
by wanting to play for another english club he obviously couldnt care less about LFC so why should this club bend over backwards for him
i`d honestly stick him in the reserves for a season before i sold him to arsenal.

Let me get this straight, Liverpool doubled his wages after he dragged us through the Sh*t storm of evragate and he then again sullies the clubs name by biting a fellow professional and we're being unreasonable in not giving him a move.

He's like a little fooking kid, we may lose out on a few million but I'd let him rot tevez style.

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Tue Aug 06, 2013 10:36 pm wrote:no way should we sell him to arsenal, we should tell suarez straight that if a foreign club comes in for him with an acceptable offer then he can go, but no way should we be f##king up our own chances of qualifying for the CL just because he`s desperate to play in it.
by wanting to play for another english club he obviously couldnt care less about LFC so why should this club bend over backwards for him
i`d honestly stick him in the reserves for a season before i sold him to arsenal.

Spot on. Couldn't care less him being so desperate to play in the CL.

We aren't selling him to Arsenal, the fact that he puts his priorities over the club is frankly f**king disgraceful.

Let's just ask Faildrid for Modric plus 20m and call it a day, hey.

I agree. He can f*** right off about moving to Arsenal.
Especailly at a bargain price. Any slim chance of 4th is gone even before a ball is kicked.

Really liked the fact that Sureaz is 100 % admitting about lying to all lfc supporters about the press, family etc.

Like I said before, Torres is a *ucking saint compared to this *issant

eds » Tue Aug 06, 2013 11:00 pm wrote:

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Tue Aug 06, 2013 10:36 pm wrote:no way should we sell him to arsenal, we should tell suarez straight that if a foreign club comes in for him with an acceptable offer then he can go, but no way should we be f##king up our own chances of qualifying for the CL just because he`s desperate to play in it.
by wanting to play for another english club he obviously couldnt care less about LFC so why should this club bend over backwards for him
i`d honestly stick him in the reserves for a season before i sold him to arsenal.

Spot on. Couldn't care less him being so desperate to play in the CL.

We aren't selling him to Arsenal, the fact that he puts his priorities over the club is frankly f**king disgraceful.

Let's just ask Faildrid for Modric plus 20m and call it a day, hey.

Forget about those fantasy swap deals as practically no player from a CL club will come which is why it will be such a blow losing Suarez.
Not only strengthening a rival but finding a replacement.

f*ck the kunt, let him go and play for Arsenal, we'll be better off! We'll get above f*cking Arsenal with or without him, I'm sure of it! Just get the money and let him go to his beloved Arsenal, a club which has the Round of 16 in the CL and the 4th spot trophy as top priority! Sell him to the arsholls but not before he hands in a transfer request, I don't want him getting any "loyalty" bonuses.

Penguins » Tue Aug 06, 2013 11:29 pm wrote:

eds » Tue Aug 06, 2013 11:00 pm wrote:

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Tue Aug 06, 2013 10:36 pm wrote:no way should we sell him to arsenal, we should tell suarez straight that if a foreign club comes in for him with an acceptable offer then he can go, but no way should we be f##king up our own chances of qualifying for the CL just because he`s desperate to play in it.
by wanting to play for another english club he obviously couldnt care less about LFC so why should this club bend over backwards for him
i`d honestly stick him in the reserves for a season before i sold him to arsenal.

Spot on. Couldn't care less him being so desperate to play in the CL.

We aren't selling him to Arsenal, the fact that he puts his priorities over the club is frankly f**king disgraceful.

Let's just ask Faildrid for Modric plus 20m and call it a day, hey.

Forget about those fantasy swap deals as practically no player from a CL club will come which is why it will be such a blow losing Suarez.
Not only strengthening a rival but finding a replacement.

You mean like Coutinho at Inter last season, who were in the CL?

Dude, I wouldn't make such a sweeping statement that we can't land any players at CL bound clubs.

Modric had an incredibly poor debut season for Faildrid and things may get worse for him under Ancelotti this season, so can't see why we couldn't tempt him with a move back to England.

His situation almost mirrors Sahin from last season, where the same thing was being said "NO CHANCE OF GETTING HIM"

As for strengthing a rival, what do you mean, Faildrid are not the ones competing for a CL spot in England? And if Suarez has blantantly put his cards on the table WE SHOULD BE FINDING A REPLACEMENT.............RIGHT NOW!

Well now we know the real suarez lying,phony b.astard. and if this verbal agreement was made why did he sign a new contract? Because all he seen was ££££££ signs. 99% of these so called footballers are just mercenaries. The days of the Carras and gerrards are becoming a thing of the past. The only was things will change is if the fans stop attending the games and everybody else cancels there sports packages with Sky, BT etc. Then the high wages will stop. But it won't happen as those in power know It's in our blood past down the generations,also you have all the brainwashed Asians of Indonesia. Thailand etc etc. We the fans were sold down the river about 20 years ago. It breaks my heart

Well now we know the real suarez lying,phony b.astard. and if this verbal agreement was made why did he sign a new contract? Because all he seen was ££££££ signs. 99% of these so called footballers are just mercenaries. The days of the Carras and gerrards are becoming a thing of the past. The only was things will change is if the fans stop attending the games and everybody else cancels there sports packages with Sky, BT etc. Then the high wages will stop. But it won't happen as those in power know It's in our blood past down the generations,also you have all the brainwashed Asians of Indonesia. Thailand etc etc. We the fans were sold down the river about 20 years ago. It breaks my heart

RUSHIE#9 » Tue Aug 06, 2013 10:57 pm wrote:He's like a little fooking kid, we may lose out on a few million but I'd let him rot tevez style.

+1 ...like I said, I would be happy to pay his wages and let him rot in the reserve team bench to teach this rat (and any potential mercenaries like him) a lesson than to see him helping one of our rival and get them into the coveted CL spot at our expense. This definitely looks like the scenario is not going to benefit any parties so why not kill two birds in one stone, then sell him off to the highest bidder after the World Cup?

Ok so we have official confirmation Suarez is lying c.unt. To all of us who were mindlessly devoted to him, he has taken a great big steaming dump on us AND Not for the first time...  !!!

Suarez will bring chaos to which ever team buys him. This guy is as much a curse as he is a talent.

Arsenal fans enjoy his talent while he uses your club as his personal toilet.

As much as we are a piling on the hate at Suarez right now let's not forget this lads......

"I don't feel betrayed [by Liverpool] but the club promised me something a year ago just as I promised them that I would stay and try everything possible to get us into the Champions League.

"They gave me their word a year ago and now I want them to honour that. And it is not just something verbal with the coach but something that is written in the contract. I’m not going to another club to hurt Liverpool."

Let me start by saying IF THIS IS TRUE, this really does not paint a good picture of Rodgers or FSG. They need to come out and completely deny this now or we should be demanding that Rodgers, management and the club owners be sacked immediately. You should NEVER be making these kind of promises even verbally, NEVER.

And then this.

"People may accuse me of showing a lack of loyalty but last season we told Liverpool there was interest from a top European club but they told me:  We've got a new coach and we’re going to push for the Champions League'.

"I spoke with Brendan Rodgers several times and he told me: 'Stay another season, and you have my word if we don't make it then I will personally make sure that you can leave'.

Once again, IF TRUE this club is in complete and utter shambles with certain expectations being preached through the media and complete down-right lies being fed to the players on the other hand. The club needs to make a stance on what Suarez has said and I will be completely admonished if they do not deny any of it.

The grenade has been sent to Rodgers and Henry. Let's see how they respond. 

Still don't think we'll sell him to Arsenal. If a non English team offers £50mil+ lets get rid and move on. Otherwise bad luck Luis, you ain't going anywhere.