http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/10528327/Arsenal-are-watching-Atletico-Madrid-striker-Diego-Costa-ahead-of-potential-January-transfer-window-move.html
He may have signed a new contract but i think there is a high chance that he has a real release clause this time around. Still think he will be off if Liverpool don't make top 4.
This logic is totally warped. Firstly no-one can expect the money Tottenham got for Bale because it was a world record amount and no-one else would have paid it. It's also 5-6 years since they last spent big like that. I doubt anytime soon any player will be going for money anywhere near that. And on top of that, if there is a release clause in his new contract it won't be decided by the club. There is no chance in hell that you lot have convinced Suarez that he is so good that clubs will be clammering to get him for £85m+. If there is a release clause it'll be somewhere in between the £40m he thought he already had in place, and the £80m Liverpool probably want. Who knows where abouts that stands but it won't just be set at what Liverpool want for him, it will have been some kind of compromise.
Make a few random bids to test the level of his clause Tbh i wouldn't be suprised if it is only activated by Liverpool not qualifying for the CL.
We didn't need to offer him a contract as he had 2 and a half years left on a contract that has no release clause in it. We could charge whatever we want to whoever we want. If we didn't make CL next summer we would sell him to Real for 60-70mil, which is very reasonable to assume. If we did reach the CL, we would offer him a contract in Summer knowing he has CL football and he probably wouldn't even ask for a clause. So unless the clause is at least £60-70mil then it would be of no benefit to us to actually give him a new contract and waste a load of wages too. If there is a clause it will be at least £65mil imo. Also I think you lot are being very optimistic if you think the clause will include English clubs too.
ttliv87 is right. This new contract finally kills any chance we had of signing Suarez, he will never be an Arsenal player. If Liverpool weren't willing sell for £40m they certainly won't consider selling now they're a better team and actually have a chance of taking advantage of weakened opposition and making CL qualification. In the current market Suarez is worth £70-80m, to an English club maybe more, though I'm not sure any buy-out clause can differentiate between which clubs you are permitted to sell to, I may be wrong. Having seen Bale go for £80m I wouldn't expect Liverpool to agree to any buy-out clause less than that sale....
I thought that after the Summer debacle but sonce he's come back from the ban he's been on fire and shown a great attitude as well as great respect for the club/fans, his value wouldn't have gone down between now and July as he had 2.5 years left on his current contract, he's just been given a massive pay rise (not convinced Liverpool can afford that to be honest) and is making the right noises about committing to the club long term. Merseyside or Madrid, he ain't coming to us....
I can't see him coming to Arsenal either, I think that one is dead in the water. But ultimately I think Suarez will want to play at the highest level and I see that happening at Real for him.
After today's results he is playing for a team at the highest level and he single-handedly put them there..............
That's the point really, without him they are nowhere near as good. It's like Bale with the Spuds, one man made the team look good, but take him out and they are distinctly average. Although I concede that Liverpool are better than the spuds. I still think Suarez will see that his level is above that of what Liverpool can offer. If they win the league or come close, then maybe things will be different, but my bet is that he'll be a Real player sometime in the next couple of seasons.
No player is worth 70-80m in this market. One player going to one club for an over-inflated fee doesn't set the market rate for top players. The fact that all the other top european strikers have recently moved clubs for fees around 50-60m would suggest to me that is a far mroe reasonable expectation for a top striker than the one off stupid money deal for Bale which wont be repeated for years to come. If Liverpool where not willing to agree to anything less than 80m then why the hell would Suarez sign the deal? He only had 2 years left on his contract come the end of the season and with what he thought was a 40m buy-out clause only we made a move for him. Has he really been convinced that he is so good that he can expect a stream of clubs willing to pay an 80m buyout clause? No chance. If Liverpool don't make CL football Suarez will want to leave, he won't expect any clubs to afford 80m for him, i just don't understand why anyone thinks he would sign a contract that meant unless a world record fee was paid for him he is stuck there CL football or not.....
I think a clause around £65m is far more realisitc than £80m. That would place his value amongst the top strikers in europe and price most clubs out of buying him yet still leave him with a decent possibility of getting a move should you lot not get CL football.
