Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has hinted that the club might sell Luis Suarez this summer, after the striker bit Branislav Ivanovic on the forearm in yesterday’s 2-2 draw with Chelsea.
Rodgers insisted that he did not see the incident which happened in the 66th minute, but made it clear that the club’s values and tradition, is more important that any individual.
Referee Kevin Friend missed the incident, but the FA is expected to take retrospective action against the Uruguayan, who they have banned previously for racial abuse.
“I will make an honest appraisal of it. I will review and we will review it as a club. There is certainly no one bigger than this football club, as a player or a manager. As football managers, staff and players we’re representing this great football club off the field and in particular on the field,” Rodgers said.
“It’s just not the time to comment realistically on it now. If you ever lose a player you can’t replace, the next one comes along. The standards at this football club have been met for many years and that’s why it is the worldwide institution that it is.
“The history of this club is about respect and how people are treated. And that is something that will always be maintained here and will always be long after I am gone.”
Suarez’s career at Ajax came to an end, after he was handed a seven-game ban for biting PSV Eindhoven’s midfielder Otman Bakkal in 2010 and the striker has become rather notorious for his sneaky ways.
Rodgers added: “I will always defend people if I think they are right and if I think they are wrong, I will tell them as I has already happened this season with Luis. And we move on from it.
“People have to accept it when they do wrong if that’s what the case is. They have to accept the consequences accordingly.”
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