The Sunday Times have claimed that Luis Suarez will demand a move to Spain after the World Cup if either Barcelona or Real Madrid meet his release clause.
The newspaper claim that the Uruguayan has a release clause of approximately £68m in his contract and that Suarez will insist Liverpool allow him move should the Spanish giants trigger it.
Last summer Arsenal met the then release clause by lodging a bid of £40,000,001 but Liverpool refused to allow the striker to move to the Emirates, a decision which almost ended up in the courts and led manager Brendan Rodgers to briefly banish Suarez to train with the youth team.
The former Ajax man returned from his brief exile and the remainder of a long ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic to fire Liverpool to an unlikely challenge, picking up both player of the year awards for his at-times brilliant goalscoring exploits.
The newspaper claim that Suarez is still angry at his treatment from the period, claiming: “Sources close to Suarez say he was upset when the Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers, said the team had not missed him when he was banned for the first five games of the 2013-14 Premier League season.”
Seeing as Suarez and Rodgers were consistently full of praise for each other throughout the season, that would seem unlikely but it could be the opening shot in another long drawn-out and increasingly bitter summer transfer saga.
by: Cian O’Callaghan, June 22, 2014[/QUOTE]
He’s Luis Suarez, he’ll do what he wants…
Tony Barrett@TonyBaretTimes33m
Liverpool have accepted a club record bid of £56 million plus Alexis Sanchez off Barcelona for Luis Suarez. More to follow.
Yann M’Vila looks to be close to signing for Inter. There were initial reports that Mazzarri vetoed the deal but they would appear to be false. They are also being strongly linked with Valon Behrami who Mazzarri had at Napoli, looks like they have decent work done already with all the veterans cut loose and younger players being brought in.
[QUOTE=“Fran, post: 975485, member: 110”]That’s a mugging off. Everton have taken some wad of cash from the Manchesters in recent years Rodwell, Felliani, Lescott, Rooney.
Barkley could be next, and they might find it hard to hold on to Miralles[/QUOTE]
I was way off, £12 million in 2012 with potential add-ons to £15 million. Still a massive loss on a young player 2 seasons later.