Arsenal have failed in their latest attempt to sign Luis Suárez despite making an extraordinary offer of £40,000,001 that they had hoped would force Liverpool to sell the Uruguay forward.
The eye-catching figure was formulated by Suárez’s agent, Pere Guardiola, who believed that Liverpool would have to allow his client to leave in the event of any interested party offering more than £40 million.
Liverpool have always held a different interpretation of the relevant clause in the former Ajax player’s contract, however, insisting that they need only to consider such a offer, and their conviction of this resulted in a swift rejection of Arsenal’s latest bid.
Liverpool’s bemusement at the nature of Arsenal’s latest attempt to acquire Suárez was made apparent this morning when John