LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said yesterday he is still keen to sign Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez even though Liverpool have rejected two offers from the Gunners for him.
“We will completely respect what Liverpool want to do,” Wenger, talking before this weekend’s friendly pre-season warm-up Emirates Cup competition, said.
“We want to sign the player if it is feasible in an amicable way. I am a great believer you have to keep as much confidentiality as possible, which is quite difficult in the modern world.
“But we work very hard, not only on the case you name, but on other different cases.”
Suarez, 26, scored 29 goals for Liverpool in all competitions last season, but is currently four matches into a 10-game ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic in a Premier League match at Anfield last April last season.
Liverpool have continually maintained throughout the close-season that Suarez is not for sale and last week Liverpool owner John W Henry appeared to ridicule Arsenal’s latest bid after the Gunners tabled an offer of £40m plus one pound ($61.47m) for the striker. REUTERS
