Arsenal Transfer News: Gunners To Make £51 Million Luis Suarez Bid?

Daily Star. The Gunners have already seen two offers for the 26-year-old rejected, having put £35 million, and then £40 million and £1, on the table for the outspoken Uruguay international. Suarez earlier this week reiterated his desire to leave Anfield and join a Champions League club, comments that have infuriated Reds boss Brendan Rodgers. The forward has been ordered to train on his own away from the first team after threatening to take Liverpool to arbitration, just as he did at former club Groningen when he tried to engineer a move to Ajax in 2006. Rodgers believes Suarez has shown total disrespect to his club while PFA chief Gordan Taylor, who is mediating between the player and Liverpool, claims there is no clause in the striker's contract that permits the Reds to sell for +£40 million. Suarez has always insisted that Arsenal's bid in excess of £40 million activated his release clause. But Taylor said:

"He believes the £40m amount that is mentioned, if that is offered, gives him the right to go. "Liverpool are saying that is a minimum figure from which they will consider negotiation and of course they will want to keep the player, unless they replace the player with someone as good or better, which is not going to be easy in a short period of time."
And he also warned that should Suarez take the issue to arbitration, he may end up being forced to stay on Merseyside with the clock ticking down on the transfer window and these kinds of processes taking time to resolve. He continued:
"There are different ways it can be interpreted. If it goes to the Premier League, it will take time and the window is then closed. It is a delicate situation."
One way to end this saga swiftly is for Arsenal to meet the Red's valuation of the player, and may now do so by making a £51 million bid. That would smash the £50 million Chelsea paid to Liverpool for Fernando Torres in January 2011, which remains a British transfer record.

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