Liverpool forward Suarez must leave following handshake fiasco
Published on February 15, 2012 by Ben Green · 13 Comments
Following the (no) handshake incident at Old Trafford. It’s clear there is no future at Liverpool for Luis Suarez. As if the fact that being banned for eight matches and fined £40,000 was not enough, Suarez had to add insult to injury for a situation that has already damaged the club’s and more importantly his reputation enough.
Unfortunately, Liverpool are reliant on Suarez for his flair and invention in front of goal, and this has been missed whilst he’s been out, notwithstanding victories against Manchester City and and United in the cups. I say unfortunately because Liverpool have come to rely on him and frankly the best way I could describe him is unreliable. His behaviour has damaged the team and their efforts this season. The weekend’s farce, for me, simply sealed his fate.
For this reason, he’s got to go in the close-season. If a Real Madrid or Barcelona come in for him and offer £30-35m, then happy days. See you later Suarez. Let’s face it, he’s one the very few, if any of the players that Liverpool has purchased since Kenny Dalglish came in that would fetch anywhere near what the club paid for him.
The old adage that no player is bigger than the club surely has some relevance in this situation. The team needs players that can apply themselves and focus on their football, not controversy. The team is better with it’s best players in it, not on the sidelines banned. Be humble. If Dalglish and Liverpool allow Suarez to remain at the club they are demonstrating the club no longer has the backbone that took it to the pinnacle of the world game not too long ago. One could perhaps argue that it is just this type of player that has brought about Liverpool’s demise in recent years. Yes, we all know about the lack of commercial awareness in leveraging the club’s global fan base. Yes, we know about the apparent inertia in either redeveloping Anfield or relocating to a larger stadium. Yes, we know about all of these things. However, the club is in the business of playing football and any success it has must start and end on the field of play.
The ultimate reason for Liverpool’s continuing shortcoming is down to players like Suarez. They have the ability – undoubtedly – but ability alone is not enough. The attitude has to be there also and it for sure, seems to be absent in Suarez. To say I was surprised to whiteness his actions on Saturday would be a gross understatement. When I saw that, I put my head in my hands and thought “…Well, that’s it for you, lad”. The boy’s behaviour is just unacceptable and it definitely affected his performance. This has no place at Liverpool Football Club and anyone who argues against this, clearly does not understand the very fundamental of it. Sell him and bring in a player with ability AND attitude. Someone that isn’t going to be banned for what could be the most crucial part of the season.
I said at the beginning of this season that Liverpool would struggle to make the Champions League placings and got slaughtered on here. Fine, not a problem. Where are Liverpool now? As much as I love the club I’m realistic enough to know this will be a struggle, even back then I knew. The likes of Suarez simply make a difficult job even more so and for me, does not deserve to be at the club. Liverpool do not need him. Of course the struggles cannot be put squarely down to Suarez. However, considering the team has a very mean defence and can’t score for toffee, then things become a little clearer. There are other players in the team also who should step up and keep the wheels turning but they haven’t done so. This is another argument.
Next season Liverpool need to be firmly in the chasing pack, not on the fringes. To realise this, Suarez has to make way for one with a better attitude and who can represent the club in a more dignified way and uphold what it stands for.
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Tags: Anfield, Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool FC, Luis Suarez
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What crap. Luis is going nowhere. He paid his dues with the suspension and fine and now his apology! Let it go mate!
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My God this is a laughable article. What world do you live in? We are talking football and money here!
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What a load of b*****x. He refused to shake someones hand. He didn’t kung fu kick a supporter in the chest.
Why don’t you concentrate on Mamure or whoever else is unfortunate enough to have you as a supporter.
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when disagry with u its about time some had the balls to stand 4 something if it was any other club yes i wood be on your side its man utd and the fa r up there arses they get a way with murder year in year so your not proper liverpool fan u should back him up it about liverpool fc started beenin real men at war playin the gentle all the time .
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What a trash article. I read the first few paragraphs and then didn’t bother. This lance attempt at football journalism has the thought process of a juvenile. Maybe you should apply to the Daily Star. You obviously understand little about the club and how they support their players. You obviously have not botheted read the FA report before commenting on a subject. A decision based on one mans word against another’s, no video evidence apart from speculation, no witness statements, no recommendations from Latin American linguistic experts. Just an FA agenda to use someone as a guinea pig to set an example and send a message. And an FA board member who happens to be the Man Utd CEO David Gill. It’s all there in black and white if you can be bothered to read the 115 page document.
If I were you I’d use an alias when you write because you will never have any credibility with the trash you write.
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Was about to write the same almost word for word – But – should it be let go? you have to remember that up to the M.U. kick-off K.D. was still saying L.S. should not have been suspended, so… it follows that it is likely L.S. was of the same mind, and if that is so then he was very unlikely to want to shake the hand of someone who he believed got him an 8 match suspension that he did not deserve?
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I have to agree I’m afraid. This is an article that it trying to pander to the brainless.
Suarez does not have to go anywhere. From the perspective of the original incident, he’s paid the penalty. And for the handshake incident he’s apologised. It’s all done and dusted.
There are few lessons to learn though. Liverpool will have to go back to the PR drawing board to learn what they did wrong, and make a few changes behind the scenes to ensure any future controversies are better managed from the outset.
However there are rumblings about a possible parliamentary investigation into the spectre of racism in sport. If so, we’re not quite done, because that might force a few further truths into the open regarding the Suarezgate affair. Truths that thus far have only been alluded to. Truths that up to now the media have ‘conveniently ignored’ in pursuit of their ‘moral outrage’ agenda.
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CRAP.
It is a setup / stitch. Suarez, once the set up subsidies, will be a legioned and sell more merchanise than united. Crap.
Once all this hip subsides then Suarez will become the biggest merchanise ever in the world of football, and Feguson knows this
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This is journalism at its worst. The entire issue was dealt with very poorly by everyone involved from the start. The FA report was a joke, Liverpool’s PR was very poorly thought out, Fergie’s stirring and statements about other team’s players being a disgrace, when he can’t control his own (Cantona, Keane, the Neville/Schmeichel handshake etc and then Evra’s goading and celebrations. The truth is, Suarez may truly believe that what he said is normal and not racist in his culture, and Evra isn’t fluent in Uraguayan Spanish and changed his story, several times in a word-against-word trial with no evidence. In this case, Suarez has served his punishment for a crime he didn’t commit and, just maybe, didn’t want to shake the hand of a man that inflicted it upon him.
Arguments aside thought, its trash “journalism” with an agenda from any old fool, like this, that have made this incident in to a media free-for-all. He doesn’t need to leave, and I for one like to see a player get p!ssed off when he loses – in my book that’s the right attitude. YNWA
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Suarez has never admitted being racist he still denies being racist so why should he shake someones hand who has had him charged with racism. this article is terrible sort your head out
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I dont need to say much other than to the journalist who conjured up this masterpiece…. Just F##K OFF
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I dont need to say much other than to the journalist who conjured up this masterpiece…. Just F ##K OFF
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Are we STILL on this issue??? He might be controversial, but he adds some creativity and drama in a game that has become one for sissy boys and cry babies.
Evra crying wolf (again), Nani crying a baby; a game where good tackles are re-branded as fouls.
What happened to the beautiful and once passionate game called Soccer?
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