Imperative for Liverpool to use Luis Suarez money wisely should he leave
Leaving for greener pastures: Luis Suarez
As reports script Luis Suarez’s departure from Anfield, there are also suggestions for an acrimonious need to replace him. It is indeed a certainty that the Uruguayan will leave behind an indelible footprint, mostly putrid by his antics on and off the field.
Ian Ayre, the club’s managing director, has been murky to quash Suarez’s departure. He even went to lengths to suggest he could convince the wantaway striker to stay, should he return for the pre-season tour in Australia.
I am not going to doubt the power of Ian Ayre to persuade Suarez to think otherwise than leaving the club. In fact, if Brendan Rodgers has a say in this which he will, there is a fair shake that in August, Liverpool’s no. 7 is still Luis Suarez.
On the other hand, I staunchly believe the club is always a superlative ahead of the players donning its colours, and Luis Suarez has portrayed himself to be the opposite. Thereby, he should be transferred out and Liverpool should capitalize on the market value.
I ultimately foresee a bigger issue to quench for the club. For Liverpool at least, this is a situation that could test the club’s stance on matters which could hinder the club’s ascent to the Champions League. The management’s handling of this situation should symbolize that the club stamps itself to be greater than the player’s selfish magma of talent.
Come this August, it also matters more if Liverpool can assemble a squad to consistently register Ws to their Premiership standing. This sadly hasn’t been a prognosis thanks to the team’s jaded ability in recent years. Whether they keep Suarez or sell him is less of a headache than what the clubs needs to attribute itself on the pitch in different positions.
A quality centre-back or a winger matters as much as a star striker for the team to balance itself. For two years, having Suarez in the squad showed us that he single-handedly could not carry us to the Champions League. And just transferring in a striker to replace him with this squad won’t change that either.
If Luis Suarez is to leave Liverpool and the club socks in £40 million, the money could be spent anywhere – not just focally on a single forward. It could be deemed by Rodgers to strengthen the defense, add a winger or even buy a striker or two. The only goal in his entirety should be in assuring results for Liverpool. That will not just happen in this team by buying only forwards of unplumbed repute, given the club’s weaknesses elsewhere.
There is an ongoing debate all over the internet with the boiling kernel of it being if the club can find a player of the calibre of Luis Suarez.
I, too, admittedly thought the same way. Should Suarez leave Liverpool, can we poach a striker who can replace him? Who would even want to come to L4, given we don’t play Champions League or the Europa League?
But then, I thought about this too. Every time a so called ‘irreplaceable’ figure has left Anfield, Liverpool has managed to purchase a replacement or tried to mould a talent in its ranks at Kirkby. Like nothing is always perfect, the club has undeniably fallen short in substituting the void left behind by certain players though. But at the same time, the greater worry that cannot be digested is Liverpool’s unresponsiveness to lure in a player to diffuse other vacuities which were left open much earlier.
When Xabi Alonso joined the gilded company of Madridistas for a titanic sum of money, Rafael Benitez spent £20 million of it on Alberto Aquilani. As Mascherano left, Hodgson bought an ageing Christian Poulsen, who I thought was worse off to begin with than Aquilani. In came the scanty duo, out went the irretrievable dyad.