Liverpool journalist David Lynch has come out and claimed that he wished former Reds striker Luis Suarez ‘hadn’t played’ for the Merseyside club.
This comes after Lynch made an appearance on The LFC Transfer Room Podcast where he spoke about a number of topics about the Reds.
After being asked what his unpopular opinion about Liverpool was, Lynch shared his criticism for the forward.
He said: “I wish he hadn’t played for Liverpool. Absolutely phenomenal footballer, one of the best I’ve ever seen play for Liverpool, a joy to watch every week, but I think his net value to Liverpool in terms of trophies won, so one League Cup, one near-miss in the Premier League, is outweighed massively by the negativity that he brought to the club, in terms of dragging Kenny Dalglish’s name through the mud, all the bans and the biting and all the things he did.
“Obviously the racism case was just, for me, a dark period in Liverpool’s history and the fact that a club legend like Kenny Dalglish was involved, so it made that worse. He didn’t win anything except a League Cup. One of the great moments I thought from that Barcelona tie [in 2019] was when Anfield turned on Suarez, I thought that was a really good moment of like exorcising the ghosts of all the things that have gone on and saying, ‘you’re not our boy anymore.'”
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Liverpool signed Suarez back in the 2011 January transfer window from Ajax for a fee of £23.85 million. During his time at the Merseyside club, Suarez made a total of 133 appearances across all competitions in which he managed to score 82 goals and provide 47 assists.
In the 2014 summer transfer window, Liverpool sold Suarez to his current club Barcelona for a fee of £73.55 million.
As Lynch mentioned in the podcast, Suarez had his ups and downs during his time at Anfield. The worst of which saw him being handed an eight-match ban and a £40,000 fine from the FA after they found him guilty of racially abusing Patrice Evra back in 2011. After the ban was given to Suarez, his Liverpool teammates at the time wore t-shirts in support of the striker, a decision which former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has described as being a ‘massive mistake’ from the club.
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Despite having a stunning goalscoring record for the Reds, there was no doubt that Suarez had his bad moments and controversial issues as a Liverpool player.