Liverpool insist they won’t sell Suarez to Arsenal at any price for ‘football reasons’

 

By Phillip Eta on August 9, 2013   

 

Liverpool owner John Henry, has warned unsettled striker Luis Suarez, that he will not be sold this summer.
The 26-year-old accused the club of breaking a promise to sell him to a club that has qualified for the Champions League, if they failed to finish in the top four.
Brendan Rodgers has since denied he agreed to such condition and blasted the Uruguay international for trying to engineer a move to Arsenal.
“We are not going to sell Luis. It’s a football reason. It’s not finances. At this point, so late in window, with everyone who’s already moved or isn’t moving, we do not have time to replace him,” Henry is quoted as saying in the Daily Telegraph.
“So for football reasons we can’t –- and especially to Arsenal. We’ve made that clear. I have said to Ivan Gazidis [Arsenal chief executive] in a personal conversation that we will not sell to Arsenal. It is unequivocal, but that doesn’t seem to slow them down so I can’t wait to see what the next bid is.
“We’re not in Europe this year and have not been in the Champions League for a while. To sell to a rival for those Champions League positions, or one of them, would be ludicrous. Whatever the bid is, we won’t sell him. We need Luis. Hopefully this will pass.”

Henry also stated that he hoped Suarez will be ability to play to his full ability, once the transfer windoww closes on September 2, although the player is suspended till the end of Septemeber for biting Branislav Ivanovic.
“That’s going to be between the manager and player,” Henry added. “The manager is upset, as he should be, the supporters are, Luis is, but that’s going to be between those two and his team-mates. He’s one of the best players in the world. I have no reason to believe he won’t continue to be.
“If you look at the full context of what’s happened here, it’s jarring to all our supporters. The club has stood by him so strongly at a time you could question whether the club should have stood by him, but they did.”
The American also took a swipe at whoever leaked the details of Suarez’s contract, which encouraged the Gunners to send in an offer of £40,000,001, hoping to trigger his release clause.
He said: “It should have been confidential, so absolutely it concerns me. How does a club that doesn’t have permission to speak with your player see his contract?
“Unfortunately, it’s the way it works in football. People don’t speak about it publicly but that’s the way it’s run. It’s how things are done. I don’t think there’s a point reporting Arsenal because it just seems to happen everywhere, throughout football.
“I think Gordon Taylor is right when he says it’s not good for either side to have any clause. It’s not good for football and maybe the Professional Footballers’ Association can do something about this.”

Source: Dailypost

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