Brendan Rodgers insists that Liverpool did everything they could to not sell Luis Suárez to Barcelona this summer.
Suárez also tried to force his way out of Liverpool last summer with a potential move to Arsenal.
“We did everything we could as a club to keep Luis,” Rodgers said. “He wanted to go and play in Spain, and unfortunately when a player no longer wants to play for you, we need as a club to look at it. It was his decision for him to go, he’s gone to Barcelona, a club he wanted to play for and now we’ll move on. I’m not sure if he would have gone regardless of the World Cup. But I never felt that towards the end of the season, and likewise he never said he would give us another year either. He had obviously signed a new deal so we had that. But I think we have had great service out of Luis and it’s one that we can’t worry too much about now, it’s done, it’s gone and our focus is here.”