Give Liverpool another year, Gerrard urges Suarez Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard on Thursday urged unsettled striker Luis Suarez to stay with the club for one more season to help them regain Champions League status. Suarez is “the best footballer I’ve ever played with”, Gerrard told the Daily Telegraph, launching a renewed plea for the Uruguayan to spurn moves from Arsenal to sign him. “I’d say to Luis: ‘Give it one more year, see if we can achieve that’,” Gerrard said. Gerrard also said Liverpool needed to invest in a world-class defender and forward to bolster a squad which finished seventh last season. “This club needs to make one or two big signings if we are to compete for the top four — and keep Suarez. “Alongside Gareth Bale, Luis is the third best player in the world after Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Luis and Bale are the two hottest properties out there at the moment,” Gerrard said. “When you’re in that position, you’re going to get all kinds of teams wanting to pull you away, especially when you are at a club not in the Champions League. It’s nothing to do with the British media (criticising Suarez). “Knowing the guy as I do that’s probably the thing on his mind: wanting to be in the Champions League.”
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:49:55 +0000
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