Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, has stated that any offer for the Luis Suarez, would have to match the €63million (£55million) Paris Saint-Germain spent on his countryman, Edinson Cavani.
Arsenal are reportedly ready to return with an improved bid of around £40million, which will match his release clause, but Rodgers insists that the former Ajax striker is worth much more.
“When you consider that Cavani has gone for £55million you know… Luis is up there in that bracket of top talent,” Rodgers told the Liverpool Echo.
“Obviously it was an offer [from Arsenal] we didn’t deem worthy of the talent and even if they came back with that kind of amount [£55m] there’s no guarantee he would be sold even for that because we are trying to build something here.”
The former Swansea boss, however insisted that the club was not ready to let Suarez leave.
“We are totally in control of the situation, it is one where we don’t have to sell,” he added. “He has got three years left on his contract.
“We are prepared to get some players in and spend money without having to sell Luis Suarez.”
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