Luis Suarez blasts Liverpool over breach of contract; ...calls on club to honour agreement

Luis Suarez has broken his silence and demanded he be allowed to leave Liverpool after he sensationally accused them of failing to keep a promise.

After a summer of posturing, the Uruguay international has put his cards on the table and informed Liverpool he wants to join a Champions League club, in all likelihood Arsenal, the only team to have bid for him.

Suarez is prepared to submit a written transfer request by the end of the week to achieve his aims, even claiming that he has the support of the PFA and is prepared to call in the Premier League to arbitrate to get a move to the Emirates Stadium.

The 26-year-old could have joined Juventus last summer but says he stayed out of loyalty to Liverpool and on the understanding that if Liverpool failed to reach the Champions League at the end of Brendan Rodgers' first season, he would be allowed to leave.

'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,' said Suarez.

'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'm 26. I need to be playing in the Champions League. I waited one year and no one can say that I did not give everything possible with my team-mates last season to get us there.'

Suarez insists there is a clause in his contract that means Liverpool must sell if a club bids over £40million, which Arsenal did two weeks ago when they offered £40,000,001. Liverpool instantly rejected that but Suarez says they were in the wrong to do so.

'I don't feel betrayed (by Liverpool) 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,' he said.

'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.'

John W Henry had made it clear that Liverpool have no intentions of selling Suarez as he reaffirmed Fenway Sports Group’s commitment to the club. 

‘I don't know why people ask us if we are selling the club or the best players because we are not,’ said Henry, who will attend a Liverpool match this evening for the first time in 13 months. ‘We like to buy stuff, not to sell. We are not selling our best player.’

It is not the first time Henry has spoken out on the subject of Suarez’s future. When Arsenal made their offer of £40million with an extra £1, in the hope of triggering a clause in Suarez’s contract, Henry tweeted: ‘What have they been smoking over there at Emirates?’

 
No loyalty in football any longer, money and ambition is the order of the day. He's definitely going to leave Liverpool, its only a matter of when and for how much!