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·14 October 2020
Wenger explains how Arsenal failed with 'ludicrous' bid for Luis Suarez
Wenger explains how Arsenal failed with 'ludicrous' bid for Luis Suarez | OneFootball
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Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has explained the club's audacious bid for Luis Suarez.
The Gunners famously submitted £40,000,001 bid to buy the Uruguayan from Liverpool in 2013.
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In his new book, 'Arsene Wenger: My Life in Red and White', Wenger writes: "In 2014 [the 2013/14 season] were looking to get Luis Suarez over.
"We had an agreement with the player and his agent. But the agent claimed that there was a clause: with an offer above £40million, Liverpool would be obliged to let the player go.
"But thanks to an indiscretion within Liverpool, I found out that his clause never existed.
"To check this was true, we offered £40,000,001. This may have seemed ludicrous, I admit.
"But Liverpool did not want to sell Suarez, they could afford to keep him and there was already an offer from Barca on the horizon."
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