Ayre thinks Suarez will still have the fans support if he stays.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...ce-suarez-to-stay-as-arsenal-makes-offer.html




Luis Suarez can expect to retain the support of Liverpool fans even though the striker is agitating for a transfer from the Premier League soccer club, Managing Director Ian Ayre said.
The 26-year-old Uruguayan, who scored 30 goals last season, has been linked with Real Madrid, Chelsea and Arsenal after he said he’d like to leave the 18-time English champion during interviews at last month’s Confederations Cup. Ayre said that Liverpool rejected an offer from Arsenal for Suarez.
“He only needs to do what he did last season and everyone will feel he’s in the right place and he should carry on getting the support that he deserves and gets from Liverpool,” Ayre said in a telephone interview. “We’d love to see Luis put on a Liverpool shirt for this season and beyond and we hope that once he gets back things will settle down.”
Suarez, who joined from Ajax for 26.5 million euros ($34.6 million) in January 2011, will miss the first six games of the season wherever he plays because of a 10-match ban for biting an opponent. He was suspended for eight games a year earlier for racially abusing an opponent.
Even with Suarez’s goals, Liverpool finished seventh in the Premier League in May, failing to qualify for European competition. Suarez has said he wants to move to a club entered in the Champions League, which Liverpool hasn’t played in since 2009. He also cited critical treatment from the U.K. media as a reason to quit the country before saying most recently he was “flattered” by interest from London-based Arsenal.
Champions League
“This is an ambitious young player, he’s talked in the media about wanting to play in the Champions League and all these things,” Ayre said. “It’s our job to convince Luis that this is the right place to achieve those things.”
Ayre wouldn’t detail the club’s targets for next season, though pointed to its off-season recruitment drive as proof the Reds, owned since 2010 by the U.S.-based Fenway Sports Group, will try to secure a top-four finish to reach the Champions League. At 9 million pounds ($13.5 million), goalkeeper Simon Mignolet is the most expensive acquisition and he’s been joined by Spanish attackers Iago Aspas and Luis Alberto as well as defender Kolo Toure. The club failed in its most ambitious bid when Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan chose Champions League runner-up Borussia Dortmund.
“We’ve got other people in our sights and we’ll keep plugging away,” Ayre said. “But we’ll do some more business, there’s no doubt about that.”
Popularity
Liverpool left yesterday for a tour of Asia, a region where the team, which last won the English championship in 1990, remains popular. A match at the 100,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia was sold out in hours. That popularity, said Ayre, has helped recruit talent even though the team hasn’t been competing for top honors of late.
“We’ve brought in great players who recognize we’re not in the Champions League but see the size of this club, see the size of the opportunity and what we’re trying to build and want to be part of it,” he said.
Liverpool has revamped its operations in the last 12 months, hiring Dave Fallows as head of recruitment and scouting and Barry Hunter as chief scout from Premier League rival Manchester City as well as a number of others based overseas.
The structure will allow the club to replace Suarez or other players quickly should they depart, Ayre said. The changes came after the team spent 35 million pounds in 2011 on Newcastle’s Andy Carroll, a striker who last month moved to West Ham for as little as 15 million pounds.
“In every position on the pitch we have a fairly good idea of who are the best players available at what price in the event one of our players leaves,” Ayre said. “But that doesn’t mean we’re painting a negative scenario, it just means you’re planning well, which is what people expect.”

 

"What we're trying to build here". If I got a pound coin every time Ian Ayre or Rodgers said that then I'd have a lot of pound coins - maybe enough for a new toaster.

 

He will have my support.

Okay, so he has said a few things and he wants to go to Real Madrid, but he is also absolutely amazing and whilst he is at our club and not banned i will always be happy to see him on the pitch.

If he is going to be sold it will happen in the next 5 days. After that he joins back up with his team mates and will not be leaving.

 

I'll support him at the moment but he's on "thin ice".

 

He's **** it for me

 

I want him gone for the right deal but if he's here after his ban and he performs as well as he did when not banned last year fine, he'll get cheered on in the match like any other player but he has no support from me in any further "incidents" and he has no sympathy from me about being picked on. I couldn't give a toss how he or his wife feels.......build bigger walls with the money you got renegotiating your contract.....

 

He obviously hasn't been on here.

Tbh, I'd support him if he stayed, because he'd still be our player and I believe in getting behind all our players. It wouldn't feel the same though.

 

Get on the phone to your mate and get on the transfer thread and tell us what the **** is going on. Please.

 

The said thing is, Ayre is probably right!

 

I think most fans will. its force major... its only total ****e like oh i dunno.... chelsea who'd boo their interim manager or an unpopular player.

 

Yeah, get another one of those "its a well known player that I won't be happy about" things going

 

Will support him, but I won't idolise as I once did. Nor will I defend him and his actions.

Would have left as a semi-legend had he gone about a potential transfer in a more dignified manner - can't fault him for his ambition but show more respect and class to the club which supported you through thick and thin.

 

If he stays, will he be told what we think of his antics in the first game back at Anfield?

 

have not idolised anyone since owen who was my age or so... but after torres even suarez can't shock me here

 

He's probably a few thousand feet up on the way to Jakarta now

 

I'd have to go back to Fowler although Torres came close

Gerrard...? Carragher...?

 

No need for that. We were interested, but Suarez opening his mouth ****ed it up.

 

I don't understand why that would **** it up. Fair enough, Suarez's comments needed attention but are we only able to do one thing at a time? Where is Ayre's team?

 

nah, i think owen was so close to my age and frankly those who knew less about football were more about him than gerrard. owen was the star gerrard snuck in as the real top player..... who went to WC98... I never idolised anoyne since. torres for me was a strange thing cos it was total hysteria as far as i am concerned. I'd admire hyppi a more than carragher and honestly appreciate alonso's tactical nouse more than gerrard's spectacular stuff. thats just me.

as a result saurez mouthing off is no surprise. it was inevitable the day he arrive we had a short time to be cl or it would start. his bans and shattered rep i think mean he gave us a full year longer than i thought really.....

 

Sir Roger.