Liverpool agreed to Luis Suarez transfer if a Champions League club offered £35m claim Arsenal target's camp
Liverpool agreed to Luis Suarez transfer if a Champions League club offered £35m claim Arsenal target's camp
Reds are alleged to have said they would entertain bids for the striker from big London sides, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich
Biting the hand that feeds him: Agent says Suarez is frustrated by Liverpool's stance
Alex Livesey
Luis Suarez is refusing to give up on a £40million transfer to Arsenal after angrily claiming Liverpool AGREED to let him go.
Suarez's agent, Pere Guardiola, has told the Anfield giants
that the striker is frustrated, wants to quit and feels let down over
what he thought were promises to sell him if the Reds missed out on the
coming season's Champions League.
Now, the Uruguay international
is determined to force the issue as he wants to join Arsenal - while
also secretly harbouring hopes that Real Madrid will come in for him. The Gunners
are prepared to wait on Suarez, their No1 transfer target, even though
Liverpool have insisted he will not be sold to a Premier League rival.
It could now get ugly, as the transfer saga threatens to drag on until the August window shuts - and Suarez is no stranger to forcing his way out of a club.
He took his case to a Dutch tribunal when he moved from Groningen to Ajax in 2007.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has insisted the 26-year-old has given up on the clause in his contract that was thought to oblige the Reds to sell if they received an offer in excess of £40m.
But
it is understood that - despite not taking the issue of the clause to
the Premier League - the Suarez camp still believes Arsenal's offer of
£40,000,001 is enough to allow him to leave, and they have not abandoned the possibility of legal action to get him out of Anfield.
Liverpool
insist the clause is "water-tight" and only requires them to inform
Suarez that a club have made an offer of that value.
The Uruguayan's advisers, meanwhile, remain adamant that he should now be entitled to leave Anfield.
Suarez's
people claim they met with Rodgers and the Liverpool hierarchy in June
to discuss the player's future, after he insisted he wanted to leave.
Guardiola
expressed Suarez's anger and said he wanted to quit if an offer came in
from a big club which had qualified for the Champions League.
They
claim Liverpool verbally agreed to negotiate if an offer of more than
£35m came in and that while they would never sell to bitter rivals
Manchester United, offers from big London clubs, Real Madrid or Bayern
Munich would be entertained.
Some observers have questioned
whether the Gunners count as a Champions League club yet as they must
win a play-off tie next month - the second leg of which will be played
less than a week before the transfer window closes - to reach the group
stage after finishing fourth last season.
Suarez also says
Liverpool promised to tell him about any negotiations and now feels let
down because they have rejected an offer from Arsenal.
His camp they also believe there has been contact from Real and Chelsea, which has not been passed on by the Reds.
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