Arsenal have made a £40m plus £1 bid
for the striker, who insists the Anfield
outfit agreed to let him leave for a
Champions League club after the Reds
failed to crack the top four Luis Suarez has urged Liverpool to honour their agreement and allow him
to leave for a Champions League club this summer. The Uruguay international has been
the subject of two recent offers from
Arsenal, who bid £40 million for the
striker plus an additional £1 in order
to trigger a release clause Suarez
insists exists in the contract extension he signed 12 months ago. Liverpool rejected the offer, but Suarez
is adamant the club told him he would
be able to move if the Anfield outfit
failed to qualify for Europe's premier
club competition. "Last year I had the opportunity to
move to a big European club and I
stayed on the understanding that if we
failed to qualify for the Champions
League the following season I'd be
allowed to go," Suarez told The Guardian. "I gave absolutely everything last
season but it was not enough to give
us a top-four finish – now all I want is
for Liverpool to honour our
agreement." Suarez also indicated he is ready to
take his case to the Premier League in
an attempt to make the move happen. He continued: "I have the club's word
and we have the written contract and
we are happy to take this to the
Premier League for them to decide the
case but I do not want it to come to
that. "I don't feel betrayed, but the club
promised me something a year ago
just as I promised them that I would
stay and try everything possible to get
us into the Champions League. "They gave me their word a year ago
and now I want them to honour that.
And it is not just something verbal
with the coach but something that is
written in the contract. I'm not going
to another club to hurt Liverpool." Though he stopped short of
specifically mentioning a desire to
move to Arsenal, Suarez gave Arsene
Wenger's side encouragement that
they might yet secure his services by
revealing he saw no problem in moving to another Premier League
club, despite previously citing the
intrusive English media as reason for
him to seek a move abroad. He added: "Right now the Premier
League is the biggest and most
important league. My record shows
that I'm not the kind of player who
wants to change clubs every season
and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years. "If we are just talking about the level
of the football and the way the
supporters are then it is an incredible
league. Any player in the world at the
moment would like to play here. "It is not as if I am asking to move to a
local rival. And I would not consider
moving to a club outside the
Champions League."