Arsenal. It couldn’t be that bad, could it?
Luis Suarez seems to think he got away with one anyway by avoiding linking up with Arsene Wenger’s side.
The striker was considering a move to the Emirates at the end of the 2012/13 season but believes he owes Liverpool skipper, Steven Gerrard, a debt of gratitude for convincing him otherwise and staying at Anfield for last year’s title charge.
And, what do you know, Stevie G is perhaps more clued in than he gets credit for. Despite the sweet irony of the midfielder handing out transfer advice, his prophecy came true and the Uruguayan avoided the hell-hole that is Arsenal (okay, he didn’t say hell-hole exactly and he would’ve at least won a cup there last year, but still…)
In his autobiography, being serialised in Barcelona, Suarez wrote.
“It would have been a big error that I would have made had it not been for Steven Gerrard,” he said. “We spoke about this when I went to Melwood [Liverpool’s training ground] to pick up my things at the end of the summer and he said: ‘You did the right thing, you waited until the best moment.’
“He had told me [the previous summer] to play well for Liverpool, give it another year and it will be Bayern Munich, Real Madrid or Barcelona coming for you and then you can go where you want, because you have the quality to play at any of those three clubs.”
