arminisgod
Player Valuation: £35m
on another note: Wenger and Arsenal will have some serious explaining to do with their fans. If they get off to a poor start they will be murder at the emirates
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23690244
Luis Suarez will not join another English club - Steven Gerrard
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard says he is confident that Uruguay striker Luis Suarez will not be sold to Arsenal this summer.
Gerrard said he could not guarantee Gunners target Suarez, 26, would still be at Anfield when the transfer window closed, but added he was sure he would not be going to another English club.
"I don't know what is going to happen over the next few weeks," said Gerrard.
"But I am really confident he won't be going to anyone else in England."
Suarez has excelled since joining Liverpool from Ajax for £22.7m, scoring 51 goals in 96 appearances.
However, has been training alone since trying to engineer a move this summer, with Arsenal having had a bid of just over £40m turned down.
Gerrard could not escape one of the transfer sagas of the summer, despite speaking on the eve of England's first match against Scotland in 14 years.
But he said he would do all he can to prevent Suarez from leaving the club.
"He is one of the best players in the world, so I can understand why clubs are showing an interest in him," he said. "If I can use my influence to try to make him stay, of course I will do that.
"I enjoy playing with him and I don't want him to go. For Liverpool to be successful and to keep moving forward, we need to keep our best players."
When Gerrard was asked how he saw the situation panning out, he said: "At the moment? I haven't got a clue."
Gerrard went on to add that, in his view, the Premier League transfer window should be closed before the season starts in order to prevent clubs being unsettled by long-running transfer sagas during the season.
This season's deadline is on Monday, 2 September - over two weeks after the opening round of fixtures.
Come on Luis, do the honourable thing and show him up.
So he might be staying now?
So he's back to not being a dirty, cheating, horrible racist chunt then?
I predict he will say sorry to the fans and the club and they will lap it up
I think he will sign a new contract in the next few weeks with a cast iron clause in it that he can leave next summer if a pre agreed fee is met
Starting to think he'll stay. I hope he does really as there will be some frantic deleting of posts on RAWK and Twitter, some first class revisionism abou how the media twisted his words and the least sincere apology in the history of football.
However this finishes, the pinkies will come out of this looking terrible, both club and supporters. At least the internet dwelling ones, they're completely detached from reality and it's bloody brilliant to watch.
Looking forward to some of their new songs next season too, especially when they all start doing the Jaws theme.
Always knew he would stay. This is more about the club going forward than a talented individual staying. We have demonstrated that we really are a big club. We are ahead of Arsenal and spurs, whilst we are bigger but poorer than the plaything clubs city and Chelskie. We have demonstrated once again that we are the only real competitors to the half red manks in terms of kudos and standing. We are on the way back and even if Suarez leaves us next year we are still climbing that hill because we are too big to be bullied.
Id imagine the poems's are being written at the moment..
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