da 888casino： Despite being banned for a total of 19 games during his Liverpool career, Luis Suarez has never been sent off for the club. That’s a pretty impressive stat for a player that has used racially offensive remarks towards an member of the opposition, bitten a player, and been accused of stamping on opponents on more than one occasion.
da leao： But aside from his despicable antics, Suarez is a bloody good player. Which is the only reason he hasn’t already been shipped out to become some other club’s pain in the backside. But just how many goals do you need to score in a season to make up for all the negative press that a player brings to your club?
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Obviously there are certain ‘fans’ that will spend their lives supporting Suarez’s disappointing exploits, but the kind of unsavoury individual that condones such actions isn’t worth acknowledging anyway.
Liverpool aren’t the only club with these kind of fans, every club has its fair share of idiots in the stands, but the true fans know Suarez is starting to tarnish the reputation of their great club, and as we all well know, the name on the front of the shirt is far bigger than the name on the back.
The argument for Liverpool fans is that just who could they get in as a replacement for Suarez, because his goals have been influential in Liverpool’s Premier League position this year, right? Well, no. According to Opta, even if Suarez’s goals were discounted this season, they’d still have finished a relatively disappointing 7th in this season’s campaign.
In fact Liverpool coped just fine without Suarez when they had to, they won three of their last four games of the season while Suarez was banned, including an entry into performance of the season with a 6-0 win against Newcastle. During that time former Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge found the net five times, and Coutinho continued to play the kind of football that made Liverpool interested in his signature in the first place.
Basically what I’m trying to say is that Liverpool have a perfectly good squad to cope without the Uruguayan next season. Coutinho looks quite the talent, and Sturridge’s goals to game ratio has improved vastly since he was given the chance to play as an out and out striker, rather than on the wing.
There’s no doubt that Suarez will need replacing, but with a transfer fee of a reported £50million for the striker and the impending £15 millionfrom West Ham for Andy Carroll, they’ll certainly have the spending power to compete with the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea.
And if Liverpool are able to compete with the Premier League giants off the pitch, who knows, they may soon be able to challenge them on it. £65million is the kind of budget that should be able to secure Champions League for your club, and there’s no doubt that Liverpool have the stature to get back to their once sublime best.
It may look like a short term nightmare for the club, but in the long term it’d be the right decision to let Suarez go. They’d have the capital to enhance their squad in numerous positions, and they’d manage to turn a profit on what is effectively a ticking time bomb.
Should Liverpool cut their losses or will Brendan Rodgers regret letting Suarez go?
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