LIVERPOOL WILL NOT sell Luis Suarez, managing director Ian Ayre said as the fallout from the striker’s bite on Branislav Ivanovic continues.
Suarez was fined by Liverpool this morning as the club wait to see what action FA officials will take following the controversy at Anfield.
The Professional Footballers’ Association revealed that they will offer anger management counselling to the Uruguyan, who faces a lengthy ban after he was seen to bite Ivanovic during yesterday’s 2-2 draw against Chelsea.
Suarez was at the heart of the afternoon’s drama, setting up strike partner Daniel Sturridge for Liverpool’s first goal before conceding a penalty which allowed Chelsea to take the lead again.
The PFA Player of the Year nominee then snatched a point with a equaliser in the seventh minute of stoppage time but the late heroics were overshadowed by his latest on-field controversy.
The incident divided Liverpool’s former pros with Graeme Souness saying that it would be very difficult for Suarez to stay at Liverpool while John Barnes said that he will have to suffer the consequences, but dismissed talk of selling or sacking him as “ridiculous.”
Ayre, who cancelled a scheduled trip to Australia to deal with an incident which is “not befitting of any player wearing a Liverpool shirt”, said that the club will work with Suarez on his discipline.
But after speaking with Liverpool’s American owners, he insisted that the events of the last 24 hours will not have any bearing on the player’s future.
“It affects his future in the sense that we have to work with him on his discipline – but Luis is a very important player to the club,” Ayre told LiverpoolFC.com.
“He’s a very popular player with his teammates. As we keep saying, he signed a new four-year contract last summer and we’d all love to see him here throughout that contract.
He’s a fantastic player, top scorer and everything we’d want in a striker, so there’s no change there. This is more about getting him back on the right track and it’s largely down to [manager Brendan Rodgers] now to work with him on that side of his character.
Suarez, who spoke with Ivanovic to apologise for his “inexcusable behaviour”, conceded last night that he had let down everyone involved with the club. The internal fine will be donated to the Hillsborough Family Support Group at his request, Liverpool confirmed this morning.
Now he must wait for the FA to examine referee Kevin Friend’s match report as well as the video evidence before deciding how to proceed. In November 2010 while at Dutch club Ajax, Suarez was banned for seven league matches for biting PSV’s Ottman Bakkal on the shoulder.
Last season he was hit with an eight-match suspension and fined £40,000 after a lengthy FA disciplinary hearing found that he had racially abused Manchester United defender Patrice Evra during a Premier League match between the sides.
“You can see when you speak to him how sorry he is about it and he’s certainly shown quite a lot of contrition to us,” Ayre said.
I think he felt like he let a lot of people down yesterday. We’ll work with Luis – Brendan particularly – on this side of his character in his game. Hopefully that puts the matter to rest from our point of view and we’ll wait and see if there’s any further action from the football authorities.
He added: “With any incident like this, any major incident at the club, we’re in direct dialogue with the owners, always. I spoke to them last night and they were happy with the way we were handling the matter.”
Worse things have happened on a football pitch .. Remember Liverpools white suits to this day nobody got charged for that ,.
Is the FA having a laugh,if that happen on the street you will be charge for assault..and this is not the first and wont be the last,dont let me start on his delibrate handballs
Sell his teeth….
If you you elbowed somebody or did a sliding tackle on them in the street you’d also be charged. So by your logic any player that’s guily of these offrnces on the pitch should also be charged.
Brilliant player but he’s a loose cannon
I know what he did is awful but I just can’t stop laughing.
So was Cantona, but did United think about selling him after Kung Fu Gate? I think not.
Trisha, Cantona kicked a racist in the chest (And got a 9 month ban). Suarez is a racist who tried to take a lump out of someones arm with his teeth (and at a previous club drew blood from someones chest. Again. With his teeth).
Cannonise him then…. he never did nothing wrong… was always in the right when he stamped on players who were always on the ground, the team mate he decimated in France obviously made a mistake making eye contact with him, and to be honest, call me anything you want if I am paid millions, I do not care… He did not care when he threw himself in feet first to that guy…. with a little kid barely a yard away……
Graham: he never did ‘anything’ wrong.
Seems to be the consensus….
And do not try to pass that off as a grammar lesson, we know what you really meant :)
He bites, he dives, he hates the Jackson 5, Luis Suarez….
Chewy Suarez
I dont blame Suarez I think Ivanovic was trying to choke him by stuffing his elbow into Suarez open mouth.. ;-)
Anger management my hole. Ban the hungry git. Great example.
The best one I’ve heard yet was he was only looking to get a taste of champions league football :-)
Make them all wear gumshields problem solved… Oh wait the Dublin footballer still managed to bite a Donegal man and is still in hiding been covered up by his teammates and county board…
But I thought these kind of things only happen in soccer…
And he asked that the wages he’s fined be donated to the hillsborough trust. As if, this ass has no class. Liverpool are disgusting using the trust as a PR stunt to lessen the focus on a horrible person. Used to like Liverpool as a football club but they really are becoming pathetic backing him every time he messes up. What’s he gona do next? This behaviour is as low as you can get. He doesn’t give one sh@te about lfc and the sooner they realise it the better.
They haven’t backed him, they’ve unceremoniously hung him out to dry and rightly so. The Hillsborough thing is an obvious stunt to get the Liverpool fans back onside and a little cheesy for my taste but this is life.
If you’re referring to “Evra Gate” from last year then I agree that Kenny and everyone involved in that mess really made a disgrace of the club but in my opinion they’ve handled this one about as well as they could.
Fergie backed everyone of his players, no matter what. Except to ones who eventually spoke the truth…. Keane, Ince, Stam… Keane was his right hand man, his general… and just like that he ‘mutually’ left….
Back to Uruguay with the young pup! Shame Ivanovic won’t press charges, deportation would be a great end to Suarez’s season.
No one was hurt.
Overpaid prat!
And any Liverpool fan who begs to differ equally has no self respect. He let his club and the football association down.
You are right, the problem here has been people coming on acting as if players on the club they support never did nothing bad…. and you know who I am talking about. Suarez has broken many people heart, you want to see his brilliance, yet he does this…
There is no excuse for what he did but he had a nibble its not as if he broke somebodys leg and ended their career or anything,people need to get a grip!
He did get a grip ! That’s the problem….
Alot of Liverpool supporters have been going on about cantona’s karate kick for years now, and saying it was a disgrace to football which I would agree with. But now the shoe is on the other foot, he should at least get the same ban.
But to ye Liverpool supporters, cantona came back a better man and player. You better hope Suarez can do the same.
Come on now lets be serious about this, nobody could possibly say that this the same as diving over a stand to drop kick a fan. Ivanafish and Chips might have small mark on his arm from this but he’s already accepted his apology and moved on. Suarez deserves a ban but the only thing that’s odd about this is that he’s bit him, wouldn’t have even been as sore and some of the normal tackles that go in. He’ll get banned and rightly so but there’s no need for the ridiculous hyperbole.
Ted if this was a once off with Suarez I might agree with you but this is the second time he has bitten another player, I mean that is ridiculous so he should get a fairly long ban.
Wasn’t the same outrage when Defoe bit Mascherano.
It was one of the most disgraceful things I’ve seen in Soccer, and before anybody starts – yes I would rank it up there with Cantonas kung fu kick
However I think he should receive a lengthy ban in the region of 4-6 months as this isn’t the first time he has tried to do this , he is a terrible role model for Liverpool foot ball club
Should he be sold- Yes and No,
Yes because he’s a disgrace and No because who do u get to replace him
If I had to choose even if he was a Utd player – I’d say no publicly and hope to get an inflated bid for him in the summer and begrudgingly let him p*ss off and be somebody else’s problem
I’d would also like to hear what Ivanovic thinks of all this – I wonder should there be a police investigation cause if that happened on the street there would
Didn’t ivanovic say he wouldn’t press charges.
I would hardly call a player in line for player of the season a problem. Mountain out of a molehill. Anyone calling for his blood has clearly jealousy written all over them. The only reason a united fan is calling for us to get rid of him is fear. Be afraid. We’ll be on the heals of a decidedly average utd team with a faltering ageing manager next season.
No what Ivanovic actually said was that Suarez is a class striker and if you don’t mark him well enough in a game it’ll come back to bite ya…
No you won’t.
So if someone bit you on a night out you’d have no issue with it? Or would the person not be arrested for a public order offence? He’s a gifted player with serious issues and is an embarrassment to LFC
you don’t watch much soccer so Red Devil or indeed any other sport. What about Jermaine Defore “nibble” a few years ago, Rudi Vollers spiting incident? Just two that come to mind.
A person would only be arrested if there was a charge. Ivanovic had no physical injuries and didn’t want to go through legal channels. That’s entirely feasible on a night out @Gearoid not everyone goes through legal channels to sort their issues.
Sorry @gerry not @ Gearoid. Must be the crack
Yea stop smoking the crack Frankie
@Frankie – ‘Be afraid. We’ll be on the heals of a decidedly average utd team with a faltering ageing manager next season.’
We’ve been hearing that from Liverpool supporters for the last 20 years. It’s getting a bit old at this stage.
Ahh the “next year will be our year” brigade.
As a United fan I’d love a player of his skill to be playing for them, but this so called player has further tarnished a club of Liverpools standing reputation. If this was the first time he did it you might say it was the heat of the moment, but it’s his 2nd time! And a proven racist. It’s such a pity a great talent is wasted on this coward.
That’s the first sensible thing you’ve said all day Frankie
@jrbmc you state that as if it’s fact when all it is, is merely your opinion. Like my comments here. An opinion.
In December 2011, he was banned for eight matches and fined £40,000 after being found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra.
Straight from Sky Sports News ! Or are ther wrong as well Frankie ?
Thanks for that factoid. Who denied it? Shall we pull out his eyes now or leave him do the time for the crime and move on? I never said what he did Sunday shouldn’t go unpunished. It has been punished, a fine. But calling for his blood is OTT remembering that this is my opinion. I don’t think we should sell him and I think utd supporters telling us we should is a bit rich. As my original post said a mountain out of Sundays molehill. Wait to see what the FA do but we ain’t selling. Time to move on now from this for me. Digging up the past for no reason and asking me, are they wrong…what’s that about?
He was found guilty of using inapropriate language. Both Evra and the fa said he wasnt racist. typical sky sports united fans. You get your opinions from the sky news desk. Think for yourselves and not through Jim white
You even state ” straight from the sky news desk ” point proven. I wouldn’t mind you got it wrong
All this from a team whose Manager meets players in underground parking lot to try convince them to sign for man utd…. as usual, 2 rules, one for them and one for the rest. You lot treated Cantona as a God, even though he was an out and out savage. Great talent though he was….
O so just found guilty of being a naughty boy ? Was he ? …. And got 8 match ban for that, well is a wonder any club can field a full team if that’s the case
Admit it all you Liverpool fan are shitting brick cause you know you fu*ked without him and the club know that too and that’s why they wont sack him , but their secretly hoping that someone will pay up stupid money for him in the summer . You can say all you like about Cantona and Defoe but the fact is they did it once , this is his second time to bite a player and deserves all he gets and more. Case Closed !!
We lost Torres and replaced him, if we lose him we will replace him also. Of course we wont sack him, missing a drug test is sackable too, because it implies a positive test. Karate kicking a fan is sackable too but you didnt. So we why would sack him, when other clubs are setting examples like that. Get a life and follow your own team. If another player done this there wouldn’t be half the shite. Go and see what Jim white has to say and come back and tell me what you think
Cantona was a serial psycho…. Keane bettered him…. Scholes was nasty…. at least he was man enough to walk off before the card was shown most times, because he intended it…. again… all you fans claim to support angels…. your team was built on nastiness too…. Robson…. Ince…. Cantona…. Keane…. Scholes…. you need it, when you had them, you were very successful, and better in Europe too….
No 20 !
“all you fans claim to support angels” – amazing!
Give over scholes wasn’t nasty. He was just too slow in the tackle. As for Suarez as a united fan fine him and ban him til the end of the season. He is a fantastic player and it would be a shame if he left the EPL. BR is a decent manager let him deal with it internally.
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Are you out of your mind? A nasty tackle is a late tackle, not meant to win the ball…. he always knew what he was doing…. And Mr Olsen, Hows that glass house when it snows?
you sound like a f*cking 5 year old Graham…
No, I did not stoop to the gutter and insult anyone here, disagreed and gave my own opinions and how I see them. I have seen a lot of comments about Suarez. All of them right maybe, even about Ghana handball…. how was that different to Solksaer taking out I think it was Green for Newcastle years back when he was clear… Solksaer took it for his team, walked before Ref even looked at him… All I have been saying, yes Suarez should be banned, rightfully, but a lot here want him hung and quartered too, forgetting some indiscretions from there own team.
Roy Carroll scooping ball from back of the net..Spurs denied European football because of blatant cheeting….typical Utd fans…I recall duri g seventies and eighties your nasty players and equally nasty fans…ypur own title drought…football dynsaties are cyclical…utd winning a decidedly poor pl woth average ageing team and huge debt.
Suarez should be banned…I am as a 40 year LFC fan disgusted by his behaviour and the fact it was first home game after Hillsborough anniversary & days after Anne Williams passed away. But he has apologised..Ivanovic has accepted this…club have fined him & said fine will go to Hillsborough Families and both club & player await FA decision. Its called due process for info of the lynch mob.
Errrr Memories only start from the beginning of the Premiership Colm….
Admit it …the guy is sc*m Colm ! If you going to bring up the past don’t forget when he denied Ghana a rightful place in the last four of the World Cup by saving a certain goal with his hand , then sent off and seen celebrating when they missed the resulting penalty … And then you have Escobar who was shot for scoring an own goal against the States ,this was his only crime . Yet you all defend Suarez and compare him to other players , he doesn’t deserve to be a footballer
it’s not tit for tat Graham – which is what your trying to make it – and it’s making you sound 5 and not 40.
nobody is forgetting the indiscretions from their own team, in fact nobody is bringing them up.
any fan, no matter who they support, is well within their rights to come on here and express their disgust at what Suarez did yesterday without the likes of you coming back and excusing them of being hypocrites because a player who played for their team did something nasty or violent in years past…its what 5 years olds do in a play ground.
Due process…he has accepted his guilt. Wait for FA…thats what I intend to do and will accept their decision.
‘nobody is forgetting the indiscretions from their own team, in fact nobody is bringing them up.’
Whatever way you make your conclusions, To come on here, everyone is out for Suarez, it was disgusting, again, he deserves whatever the FA does, as a Pool Fan he has broken my heart and no doubt all Pool fans, because he a brilliant player, terrible person. You have your conclusion, I have mine. But a lot came here, shoot there mouths, when maybe they should have been saying, now you know what it feels like. I accept that. When you cannot take an argument, thats when you start insulting’ or ‘tit for tat’
your saying that “maybe they should have been saying, now you know what it feels like” – that’s tit for tat Graham and it’s not really an exercise grown ups tend to get involved in…
Sorry, should have stressed the tone of the statement then, not going to keep this going with you anymore either…. was not meant in the na na nananaaaa tone you read it as… you know what I mean. I get it… anyway, I’m off this as I am sure Journal will keep this going…. have a nice day, enjoy your celebration game too….
Yep was getting a bit childish there myself. Enough said on subject. ‘Til next season!
Ha ha ha ha ha, good one, u a comedian?
ChickenSh*t approach again by the board , behind closed doors their backing the player like they did when he was found guilty as a racist . It just go to show that the player is bigger then the club ….
Just like cantona
@Peter United banned Cantona before the FA did. Which is exactly what Liverpool have failed to do with Suarez.
He will get twelve games from the fa, football is big business and it was unlikely that the club would ban him. United had no choice he attacked a fan after being sent off.
JRBMC he wasn’t “found guilty as a racist”(whatever that actually means). P{lease check your facts. It shouldn’t be a difficult thing to do
So he wasn’t banned for using a rasist remark against another player ?????? No ! Ok me and the other 99.9% of the worlds population must have got it wrong so .
Neither of these situations put either great club in any position but awful. I am surprised Pool have only fined him, and I am a ‘Pool fan, but who knows what has been said behind closed doors, including chelsea. Cantona’s situation is somewhat familiar. Great player, who had been building up serious bad press with his tantrums and stamping, much like Suarez has done with diving. I guess the difference here was Cantona took it into the stands, crossed a major line. Not saying Suarez did not cross the line too, but once it leaves the field it becomes a different issue. The FA also has archaic rules, like if the referee does not have it in his report, or if a free was giving for it… something stupid…
How many games was Ferdinand banned for, for calling Ashley Cole a Choc Ice?
He didn’t call him a choc ice, someone else did. Research please before just posting random sh&te
He agreed with someone who calling him a choc ice. Same deal and hardly would call it random sh:te. Have a look gooner, it is you who needs to research
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18847477
Ye you have
Foolish comment
I wonder if anybody else went to work and bit somebody would the company keep him or why hire him when he was sacked from his old job for the same offence
Honest answer, from a Liverpool fan here…
It depends how good he was at his job.
Funny way of getting sacked collecting 20 million along the way for him.
I blame pat mc quaid.
Biting along with spitting has always been the move of a coward
I dunno, biting Ivanovic was pretty ballsy! The size of the lad!
The way some people have reacted to this you’d swear he was worse than Hitler.
His actions were indefensible but he’s not the antichrist lads.
Has the pope released a statement yet?
Well, he is Argentinian, so, so long Suarez…
Football is just a joke now. Players are overpaid tossers , refs should be given stun guns to deal with constant ranting by players and managers. Officials taking bribes. Uefa only care about the money. Only decent thing about the game is the fans.
Keane, cantona anyone???? Hypocrites!!!!
Gone in the summer. A 20m+ offer for the guy and its goodbye. Think Suarez is sick of England and will jump at a move abroad.
Twenty million plus are you having a laugh, no way the club will sell him for any less than forty. After this no one will bid that so he is staying for at least another season
Just because Liverpool paid 35million for Carroll does not make suarez worth 40m. 20 – 25 million is what he is worth . No one is going to pay liverpool 40 million for him.
you are a fool Munich are already said to have offered 40. Plus if van persie is worth 24 million as a 29 year old with only one full season injury free and never having gone past twenty goals till last year. Suarez is worth twice that, even with his anger issues. Jesus your head is up your hole
Peter. Munich have offered 40 million. Where did you get this nugget of information. The Daily Mirror, The Sun, Twitter or your mate down the pub ?
who would pay 40 million for a racist troublemaker thug like Suarez…?? are you having a laugh ?? bite the arm off whoever wants to take him. excuse the pun MUCH INTENDED !!!!
40m would be a steal for Suarez.
23 league goals. Countless assists. Copa America player of the tournament.
Liverpool should bite the hand off anyone offering 40mill for him.
He shouldn’t kick a ball again and a silly fine to a multi millionaire who in turn uses Hillsborough foundation as a pawn in a publicity stunt is down right sick if u ask me . Scary part is his first reaction is to bite . Luis saurez has become bigger than Liverpool football club .FACT . They can point to cantona etc but the point there is utd banned him before the FA did !! And u can be sure lfc fans said he should of being banned for life . So what’s good for goose
Where was all this outrage when Lennon did it???? Usual one rule stuff IMO
Lennon???
Manchester United – 2012-2013 Premier League Champions
Boooooooooooooom !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First true thing said today…
Was once called Cannibal of Ajax…. now Cannibal of Kop!
People need to get a grip football has a different set of morals rightly or wrongly. Most of come on here and long for the old days when a player could make a tackle and the players sorted things out like men. Then when a player goes in two footed or there is an elbow your all on here crying.His act was not the act of a man it was shocking and he will be banned. Get down of your high horse though. The behaviour of most professional football players is beyond the realms of most of us consider normal. Burning money etc.
Shocking?! You must have had a very sheltered upbringing.
Believe me i have seen more in my line of work than you have in your whole life you clown. Regardless of how you were brought up Thats shocking to see on a football pitch.
Maybe it doesn’t shock you but that says more about your up bringing than mine
Ooh look at you with your knickers in a twist, sorry if I upset you I’m sure you’re as hard as nails!
Ye its all there in black and white you fool
If the only retribution LFC is to impose on LS a fine (of a millionaire) for his outlandish behaviour, shame on them!!! This is sending all the wrong message… Biting is okay… apparently. He needs to do much more as does the club. Come on LFC show proper leadership… Let LS know an apology on twitter is inadequate and let the football world … There is a bottom line…
True fans hate this type of player. Relegation is preferable to harbouring racists.
Bullsh1t, True fans secretly love these players, Cantona was a God to his fans….
I wonder had Ivanovic started to turn yet
Liverpool should have a choice either sell his teeth or sell him off to a better team
they will sell him eventually once he starts to check on the old bones of Carragher.
If Callum McManaman didn’t get a minutes ban from the FA for that tackle on Haidara then Suarez should walk,scot free.
Do what they do in the walking dead, cut his arms off, remove his teeth and walk him around on a chain.
I heard Suarez has food poisoning
The English FA should award Chelsea all three points from this match. Suarez should have received a straight red card for the offence when the Chelsea player showed the ref teeth marks on his arm. Liverpool FC are a disgrace for not taking strong action against this player and losing the point from the match might bring some form of justice.
In that case award the another 3 for Torres getting sent of for being fouled against Man Utd… United should have been…. same logic right?