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By AfricCon Blog - Suarez thinks there is a clause in the contract he signed last summer that will let him leave Liverpool of an offer of more than £40million. But he is wrong. And so, for that matter, are his agent Pere Guardiola and the Spanish lawyer
currently trying to engineer a transfer to a Champions League club
By AfricCon Blog - Suarez thinks there is a clause in the contract he signed last summer that will let him leave Liverpool of an offer of more than £40million. But he is wrong. And so, for that matter, are his agent Pere Guardiola and the Spanish lawyer
currently trying to engineer a transfer to a Champions League club
Sportsmail can reveal the detail in Suarez’s contract, a form of words that sparked a heated debate between the two camps at a meeting in London on Monday.
With officials from the Professional Footballers’ Association there as mediators, it was hoped some resolution could be found.
Suarez, Guardiola and his lawyer believe they have a legally binding clause. Liverpool do not and nor do the PFA or the Premier League. Essentially what it says is this: if Liverpool do not qualify for the Champions League or if Liverpool receive a bid of more than £40m, the club will sit down ‘in good faith’ and discuss it.
It is not even remotely close to a trigger clause that would enable the Uruguayan to leave. As one insider said on Wednesday night, the Suarez camp ‘dropped the ball when it came to the phrasing of that sentence in the contract. It is so heavily caveated it amounts to nothing. Legally it is worthless.’
The Suarez camp did not enjoy Monday’s meeting and responded by inviting two Spain-based journalists to interview the 26-year-old striker, with his inflammatory words appearing in Wednesday’s papers.
