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31st Jan 2016

Liverpool fans on Twitter despair when they realise it’s five years since Luis Suarez joined

No mention of Andy Carroll though

Robert Redmond

Whether you’re a Liverpool fan or not, you can understand them still mourning the loss of Luis Suarez.

A player of such talent only comes along once in a generation, and it appears Liverpool fans still haven’t come to terms with his departure to Barcelona in 2014.

This day five years ago Suarez moved to Anfield from Ajax for £22.8m, and went on to score 82 goals in 132 games, winning the League Cup and almost propelling Liverpool to an unlikely title in 2014.

The club marked the anniversary of the Uruguayan’s arrival with this tweet:

But it was clearly too soon to talk about Suarez’s departure for some Liverpool fans.

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