Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has revealed that he told Luis Suarez last summer Arsenal weren't good enough for him and that if he knuckled down for a season he would get his dream move to either Real Madrid or Barcelona.
Speaking about last summer's transfer saga between Liverpool and Arsenal over the Uruguayan, Gerrard said:
His dream all along, from the first day he came, was to play for Real Madrid or Barcelona.
Last summer, when he was out in the cold and training on his own, that’s the conversation I had with him. I said, ‘Don’t go to Arsenal.’
With all due respect to them, I said to him that he was too good for Arsenal.
Gerrard, the Oracle of Anfield, told Suarez '''If you score 30 goals for us and win the PFA Player of the Year, the press Player of the Year’' - and believe it or not I knew he was going to win them - ''they will come back for you.'''
And come back for him they did. Gerrard, who was courted by Real Madrid in the past, seems very understanding of Suarez's decision to move: 'My big dream was to play for Liverpool, and the foreign players’ big dream is to play for Real Madrid or Barcelona - that’s a fact.'
hat-tip: Daily Mirror
