FORMER LIVERPOOL MIDFIELDER John Barnes has slammed Luis Suarez for sinking his teeth into the arm of Chelseaโs Branislav Ivanovic but feels talk of moving the striker on is โridiculousโ.
Suarez took offence to some touch-tight marking by the Serbian in the Chelsea box and was caught on camera biting his opponent.
Barnes, who played 314 times for the Reds, told BBC Radio Five: โHe has to suffer the consequences of his actions โ thatโs all he has to do.
โIโve heard talk about him not playing for Liverpool again, which I think is ridiculous. Iโve heard talk about him bringing the good name of Liverpool down, which is also ridiculous โ heโs brought his own good name down.โ
The former England international posed the reasonable argument of what major clubs would step forward and fight it out for the Uruguayanโs signature following his latest indiscretion. Suarez has previous when it comes to biting and received a lengthy ban for laying his molars into Otman Bakkal of PSV Eindhoven when he was at Ajax. Barnes said:
Whoever signs him, itโs going to reflect badly that they sign a player who Liverpool deem from a moral perspective not good enough. So Manchester United, Real Madrid, Barcelonaโฆ they can sign him? But we canโt have him? If youโre questioning his moral character, what youโre actually saying is that if he canโt play for Liverpool he canโt play for anyone, which is ridiculous.โ
Barnes added, โThe reflection on Liverpool is their response to the actions and their response is right. The response from (managing director) Ian Ayre and the club is โitโs completely unacceptable and we will not accept itโ.โ
โThe FA should act first and Liverpool will then see what punishment is meted out and then come up with their own conclusions, because they could ban him for five or seven games and then he gets another 10-game ban for the FA rather than the FA banning him or doing whatever they have to do first,โ he said.
โThey should see what the FA do and then respond after.โ
McAteer never fails to have a go at Kerr any chance he gets. Strange after so many years. He made his disrespect for Kerrโs suitability for the job clear in his book. Maybe thatโs the way he acted towards Kerr from day 1.
I dont like him. He is a mouth piece. It took nearly 10 daysโฆ.so is that 9 days then? Why not just say 9 days then
Hopefully there is just as big a turnout for this as there was for the Liam Miller tribute. Sean didnโt play Premier League football so wonโt have earned the millions that footballers do. He also needs on going care. All in all the Cox family which be much more in need of the money than the Miller family.
@John Horan: well i hope you have ur ticket then.
He was never a International player more like a headless chicken.