Luis Suarez was the subject of a notorious £ 40 million and £ 1 bid from Arsenal in the summer of 2013, but was spoken by Steven Gerrard in Liverpool
Luis Suarez admitted that he was going home and cried after he was convinced to stay in Liverpool in 2013. The Uruguaya striker was in the middle of a notorious £ 40m-plus-£ 1 bid from Arsenal, a movement that they believed would activate his release clause.
However, Liverpool was adamant to not sell their talisman, where the owner of the club John W. Henry is famous in a tweet: “What do you think they smoke there at Emirates?”.
Suarez wanted to leave, pulled by the locks of Champions League football that Arsenal offered. But in an unexpected turn, he unveiled in a chat with streamer Davoo Xeneize that Liverpool's legendary captain Steven Gerrard Successyy intervened.
Suarez told his interaction with Gerrard, “Suarez said,” He said to me, “Listen to me, I would also go to Real Madrid and other places, but the best decision is that you will stay this year, because going to Arsenal will not help you in your career at all.
“If you stay, you will decide next year whether you will go to Bayern Munich, Real Madrid or Barcelona.”
Driven by the words of Gerrard, Suarez admitted: “That day I started crying and told my wife that I would stay,” reports the Liverpool Echo.
Luis Suarez had an excellent definitive campaign with Liverpool, just missed the Premier League title, but managed to obtain 31 goals and was on 12 assists in just 33 league matches. Gerrard's prediction was also perfect, with Suarez made that big money to Barcelona in the summer of 2014 for £ 65 million.
However, the wish of the productive striker to leave Liverpool was not only clear during his flirting with Arsenal in 2013. The now 38-year-old revealed that he left Anfield almost also in the summer of 2012.
It was Juventus who almost lured Suarez away, but the Uruguayan was influenced by the newly named Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers to stay. “In 2012 I wanted to go to Juventus. But Brendan Rodgers convinced me to stay with his ideas about football.”
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