Spanish football journalist Guillem Balague believes Barcelona’s £75 million deal for Liverpool’s Luis Suarez will be completed before the weekend. The striker who is serving a four month ban from football after his bight on Chiellini looks set for a move to the Catalan club.
This comes after sports shop Futbol Mania starting selling shirts that donned ‘L.Suarez 9’. This has increased rumours that current Barcelona winger Alexis Sanchez who wears the number 9 shirt is close to a move to Arsenal.
Balague said to Sky Sports, ‘Liverpool have given up on him and the figure that Barcelona need to pay is between £70m and £80m. In any case, that is as much as Liverpool wanted. There seems to be an early payment of 40m euros which Barcelona is waiting for the sale of Alexis Sanchez to be able to say ‘here is the money’. But in any case it is going to happen and Luis Suarez’s family expect it to be confirmed by the end of this week.’
The case for Liverpool now is to find a suitable replacement to fill the void left by Suarez when the forward leaves for the Nou Camp.
Written by Ben Waterhouse – @BenWaterhouse_
