Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted that the club did everything they could to stop Luis Suarez joining FC Barcelona.
The controversial Uruguayan was in the spotlight once again this Summer after he chose to bite an opponent for the third time, but this time at the World Cup, and his punishment is to miss four months of football activity, but that still hasn’t stopped him from signing for the Catalan club.
A fee is reported to be around £75million after Barca officials reveald that the deal was 100% done, and Rodgers has finally opened up and spoken publically about the deal.
“We did everything we could as a club to keep Luis,” Rodgers told the Liverpool Echo.
“He wanted to go and play in Spain, and unfortunately when a player no longer wants to play for you, we need as a club to look at it.
“It was his decision for him to go, he’s gone to Barcelona, a club he wanted to play for and now we’ll move on.
“I’m not sure if he would have gone regardless of the World Cup. But I never felt that towards the end of the season, and likewise he never said he would give us another year either. He had obviously signed a new deal so we had that.
“But I think we have had great service out of Luis and it’s one that we can’t worry too much about now, it’s done, it’s gone and our focus is here.
“There is a lot of work going on with the recruitment team in terms of getting in the right player and I am sure we can identify that.
“This club and many other clubs have shown over a period of time you move on, and believe me, it will be a really exciting season for us.”
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt – @AlexsArticles
