Suarez Takes Liverpool Through Heaven and Hell......... Again
Suarez Takes Liverpool Through Heaven and Hell......... Again
Posted by Oliver Wilson

Luis Suarez has taken Liverpool on his heaven and hell roller-coaster once more as he shocked the footballing world with his bite on Branislav Ivanovic before scoring the last minute equalizer for against Chelsea in a thrilling game of Sunday Premier League football.

 

There is no place in the English Premier League, or football in general, for the antics displayed by Suarez at Anfield .

 

The Uruguayan striker, who seems to carry controversy with him where ever he goes, surely crossed the line – and not for the first time since his arrival in England– when he appeared to bite Ivanovic on the arm and now Liverpool should be looking at moving a player, who has dragged the illustrious name of the club through the mud on a number of occasions, to pastures new.

 

Unfortunately – and sadly in my opinion – this just wont happen and the Liverpool #7 could well be back on a football pitch for The Reds next season, or possibly next week.

 

Liverpool need Luis Suarez. They need him like they need a hole in the head but they also need him on the pitch providing the world-class quality that he brings to a game when the ball is at his feet. Suarez has found the back of the net 30 times this season and scored the vital equalizer against Chelsea on Sunday. His 23 strikes in the Premier League this season have been the lynchpin to the growth and success Brendan Rodgers has been able to find with his new club, and Suarez is one of the few players in the world who more often then not appears unstoppable on a football pitch.  Many have even said that he is the one player in the Premier League that can be compared to Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo.

 

This quality, this incredible talent that Suarez holds is too important to Liverpool football club to lose and the thought a rival club taking control of that talent is something both the club’s manager and board can ill afford to see happen. In a football world ruled by financial prowess, Liverpool must get back into the Champions League and Luis is the man who has had those hopes placed upon his shoulders. As a financial asset to the club, as a moneymaking commodity, he is just too valuable to lose. 

 

But is it worth a club flexing their morals in order to achieve their dream of returning to the top of English football. This is, after all, a club whose fans have campaigned for years for justice surrounding the Hillsborough disaster. Wouldn’t justice for Suarez be being banned, fined, and sacked or transferred?

 

His creativity and class has never been in question but his attitude to the game and his willingness to do whatever it takes to win has.  Diving, fighting, fouling, and the allegations and eventual ban for using racist insults on the football pitch have all followed Suarez around his time in the Premier League and the striker has gathered few supporters for his manner and approach to the game outside the Anfield faithful, so much so that there is debate whether he will win the Player of the Year award this season despite being selected as one of the final six nominees along with Gareth Bale, Robin van Persie, Juan Mata, Eden Hazard and Michael Carrick.

 

He even has a history of biting his fellow professionals on the pitch. IN his final game for his previous club Ajax, Suarez bit PSV Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal on the shoulder, resulting in a two game ban from the club and a seven game ban form the Dutch FA. Before he returned to the Amsterdam ArenA he was shipped off to Liverpool on the final day of the January transfer window.

 

The use of racist language towards Patrick Evra was not enough to see him walked out of the doors of Anfield though, and the club actively backed their forward during the FA inquest and right through his time away on the sidelines as he served his ban. It hardly seems likely that Liverpool will throw the book at Suarez for doing his best rabid dog impression on the Chelsea defender although we can at least hope that the FA will ban him for at least the remainder of the season retrospectively.

 

If his club do start to throw the book at him is the message being sent out that Liverpool Football Club will back and support a player when he’s being investigated for racially abusing a player, but it’s not ok to bite someone? It’s hardly a sentiment a club of its stature wants to give off.

 

They have, at least, broken their initial silence on Sunday's incident, with Brendan Rodgers saying that the players actions were unacceptable while the clubs Managing Director Ian Ayre has said,

 

"His behaviour is not befitting of any player wearing a Liverpool shirt and Luis is aware that he has let himself and everyone associated with the club down. We will deal with the matter internally and await any action from the FA."

 

For all the beauty he brings to the game, Luis Suarez continues to make life hellish for those behind the scenes of his club. He continues to cause trouble and cheat on the pitch, but he still brings those essential appearances on a football field that Liverpool need to grow as a club. There are two sides to this coin and Liverpool need to decide quickly whether they want this heaven and hell nightmare to continue.

 

 

 

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