Suarez reveals how Gerrard Blocked his Arsenal Move

Luis Suarez has publicly appreciated Steven Gerrard for dissuading him from joining Arsenal in the summer of 2013.

The then-Liverpool striker was the subject of a £40m plus £1 bid from the Gunners, but instead stayed on in Merseyside and scored 31 goals for the Reds last season.

In his recently released book, Luis Suarez: Crossing the Line, the Uruguayan wrote that he would have made “big error” joining Arsenal.

“It would have been a big error that I would have made had it not been for Steven Gerrard.

“We spoke about this when I went to Melwood to pick up my things at the end of the summer and he said: ‘You did the right thing, you waited until the best moment.’

“He had told me to play well for Liverpool, give it another year and it will be Bayern Munich, Real Madrid or Barcelona coming for you and then you can go where you want, because you have the quality to play at any of those three clubs.”

During this summer, after Suarez had joined Barcelona for £75m, Liverpool captain Gerrard revealed that he had told the forward that he was “too good to join” the Gunners.

“With all due respect to them, I told him he was too good for Arsenal.

“Luis’ dream, from the first day he came to us, was to play for Real Madrid or Barcelona.”