However, perhaps the most famous story of a player missing out on a transfer to Arsenal was back in 2013 when Arsenal made a \u00a340m +\u00a31 bid for Luis Suarez.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Inside Arsenal, former Gunners chief, Richard Law, has now shared the story of Suarez\u2019s near miss with Arsenal, claiming that Steven Gerrard was the big reason the Uruguayan never came to the Emirates.<\/p>\n
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Photo by Alex Livesey\/Getty ImagesSteven Gerrard stopped Luis Suarez\u2019s move to Arsenal<\/p>\n
According to Law, Arsenal had already agreed some of the finer details of this deal.<\/p>\n
The transfer boss says that Arsenal and Suarez had agreed a salary, and that all that was left to do was to agree a deal with Liverpool.<\/p>\n
However, apparently, Steven Gerrard interfered in this situation, speaking to Suarez about this move and halting the transfer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had already settled on the player\u2019s salary,\u201d Law said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that part of the equation was off the table. Suarez said he wanted to come. We had already negotiated what his salary was going to be. So the remaining piece was Liverpool<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the real crunch. And that this will probably add a little bit of spice and this is hearsay. So Arsenal fans, please don\u2019t take this as a fact. But what I was told was that Steven Gerrard came to Suarez, pulled him aside, put his put his arm around him and he says, \u201cListen, Arsenal aren\u2019t a big enough club for you. How can you you know how can you go to a lower club than Liverpool?\u2019 And I think I think if there was any reason, this part I believe, if there was any reason that Suarez stayed another year, it was down to Gerrard.<\/p>\n
What Luis Suarez said about Steven Gerrard conversation<\/p>\n
Law says that this rumour about Gerrard talking Suarez out of a move to Arsenal was hearsay, but Suarez himself has admitted that this was indeed the case.<\/p>\n
Speaking on a livestream last year, Suarez admitted that it was Gerrard who talked him out of this deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2013 I wanted to join Arsenal, because Arsenal played every year in the Champions League,\u201d Suarez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were willing to pay a lot for me, but in England, it wouldn\u2019t have looked good to swap Liverpool for Arsenal.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne day Gerrard came to me and said: \u2018Listen to me, I could have gone to Madrid or another team, but the best decision is for you to stay and not go to Arsenal, it won\u2019t do you any good.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Stay and next year you will get offers from bigger clubs like Barcelona, Madrid and Bayern. And then you can decide. But don\u2019t join Arsenal. Stay for another season.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Much to the annoyance of Arsenal, Gerrard\u2019s advice proved to be spot on.<\/p>\n
Suarez stayed at Liverpool for one more year, and the very next summer he got a huge move to Barcelona where he reached the peak of his career winning numerous trophies with the Spanish giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal have missed out on some fantastic signings over the years. Indeed, the Gunners have a long list…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[45930,403,99,50234],"class_list":["post-69126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-luis-suarez","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-steven-gerrard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}