[Brother Leon]

Liverpool owner John Henry confirms Luis Suarez did have a £40m buy-out clause in his last contract

Liverpool owner John Henry has confirmed Luis Suarez did have a £40m buy-out clause in his last contract, but the club decided they would hold on to the striker at all costs.

Arsenal triggered the clause during the summer transfer window but, having lost Fernando Torres to Chelsea in January 2011, the Reds were reluctant to sell.

Suarez made it clear in a series of interviews last summer that he wanted to leave Anfield, but Henry sees the player as a major part of the club's future plans along with Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling.

"Luis Suarez is the top scorer in the English Premier League which is arguably the top soccer league in the world," Henry said.

"And he had a buy-out clause - I don't know what degree I should go into this - but he had a buy-out clause of £40m. So Arsenal, one of our prime rivals this year, they offered £40m and one pound for him and triggered his buy-out clause.

"But what we've found over the years is that contracts don't seem to mean a lot in England - actually not in England, in world football. It doesn't matter how long a player's contract is, he can decide he's leaving.

"We sold Fernando Torres for £50m. We didn't want to sell but we were forced to. For the first time (with Suarez) we took the position that we weren't selling.

"Since apparently these contracts don't seem to hold, we took the position we're just not selling and it's been great for Luis, it's been great for us, and what will happen at the end of year, I think we're going to make Champions League and we have a small chance of winning the Premier League this year.

"We have three gentlemen up front: Suarez, Sterling and Sturridge. Those three are young, and I think Luis and those three could be together for a long time."

http://www1.skysports.com/football/....-last-contract

This is amazing More teams need to do this when a release clause is met

Originally Posted by Brother Leon

This is amazing More teams need to do this when a release clause is met

I think he's just bigging himself up there in front of a crowd, or with a drink inside him, as Suarez's agent tested that clause with impartial outsiders and they weren't having it. The clause was there, but the issue was the specifics of the wording.

[Shaun]

*cries a little imagining what Suarez could've done for our season*

[Locke.]

The title is almost secure

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Shaun

*cries a little imagining what Suarez could've done for our season*

He'd have been brilliant for us

[King Gizzard]

[Ryan57]

Originally Posted by Nathan

That is brilliant.

[Brother Leon]

The starting XI today is stronger than any starting XI Fergie has has the last 3 seasons. If I hear the media cry over Moyes having few quality players again...

[Brother Leon]

Bench Rooney for Kagawa or Welbeck. Please FFS.

Nice to see RVPs set pieces bailing us out again. Let's get rid though

[Ryan57]

Yet more crap crossing. And Rooney nor RVP will come off due to their performance. Moyes has no bollocks. It's clear the pair don't work together. Both should compete for the main striker role. Play Kagawa behind one of them.

[Brother Leon]

Welbeck on and we score instantly.

#DatGuy'sImpact

[bbfan1991]

Happy with that win.

That is 10 goals for this season for Danny Welbeck now, signs he is improving on that front...

[MTVN]

Bye bye Pepe

[Locke.]

Such a bad career choice from Mitroglou. He'll probably still get a move from Fulham even if they do go down but to miss out on a probable CL Quarter Final to get relegated is just ridiculous.. especially when he is the one that carried Olympiakos through the group stage

[MTVN]

Such a weird signing really, relegation threatened club splashing out 14m and tying him down on a 4 year contract, he must feel like a right mug

Andy Carroll never was the brightest.



Oh.

[MTVN]

Top half club when we signed him, top half club now even with him only playing a couple of games

[MTVN]

A close contest has just turned into what is going to be a Chelsea massacre in the last 5 minutes

[Drew.]

Once again the ref ****s up and ruins a game.

[King Gizzard]

Originally Posted by Locke.

Such a bad career choice from Mitroglou. He'll probably still get a move from Fulham even if they do go down but to miss out on a probable CL Quarter Final to get relegated is just ridiculous.. especially when he is the one that carried Olympiakos through the group stage

probably doubled his wages and more

[Brother Leon]

Good ol' Jose and Hazard combo.

[Drew.]

Spurs are an absolute joke

[MTVN]

Spurs in danger of replacing United as the Prem laughing stock