{"id":6490,"date":"2022-01-19T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/19\/luis-suarez-focused-on-offer-from-aston-villas-steven-gerrard\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:02:25","slug":"luis-suarez-focused-on-offer-from-aston-villas-steven-gerrard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/19\/luis-suarez-focused-on-offer-from-aston-villas-steven-gerrard\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Suarez \u2018focused\u2019 on offer from Aston Villa\u2019s Steven Gerrard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Reports coming out of Spain suggest that Aston Villa are interested in the services of Luis Suarez.<\/p>\n<h2>Suarez\u2019s Atletico stint<\/h2>\n<p>Suarez, now 34, is still plying his trade on the books of Spanish outfit, Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his age, Suarez has continued to impress and would score 21 and assist three in 32 La Liga ties last term en route to Atletico beating Barcelona and Real Madrid to the title.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico\u2019s form has since dipped this season, but Suarez has still been able to score seven and assist two in 19 league outings so far.<\/p>\n<h2>Suarez to Aston Villa?<\/h2>\n<p>Now, with Suarez out of contact in the summer, foreign clubs can, of course, attempt to sign him to a pre-contract agreement \u2013 meaning he will join them on a free at the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p>A number of clubs appear to have made offers for the Uruguayan, with Gerard Romero claiming that the hitman has ruled out offers from Palmeiras, Corinthians and Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro -as well as one from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Romero asserts that Suarez is focusing on an offer from Aston Villa, who his former Liverpool teammate, Steven Gerrard, is now in charge of:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">? Luis Suarez ha descartado ofertas de Palmeiras, Corinthians y Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro -adem\u00e1s de una de Arabia \u2013 para centrarse en la propuesta del Aston Villa de su ex compa\u00f1ero Gerrard. En directo en <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vrsj4XOUJL\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/vrsj4XOUJL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/jijantesfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#jijantesfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gerard Romero (@gerardromero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerardromero\/status\/1483534817438441480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nSuarez\u2019s last Liverpool season would, of course, be that 2013\/14 campaign which saw the infamous Gerrard slip as the Reds \u2018bottled\u2019 the Premier league title in the dying weeks. Phillipe Coutinho, currently on loan at Villa, was also still at Liverpool then.<\/p>\n<p>Is Gerrard looking to get the band back together? Will we see a move for Daniel Sturridge soon to reform that famous SAS connection? Unlikely, but a move for Suarez on a free could still be a decent one for Villa despite his age.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/football-betting-tips\/match-previews\/football-predictions\/arsenal-vs-liverpool-betting-tips-carabao-cup-semi-final-preview\/\">Arsenal vs Liverpool betting tips: Carabao Cup Semi-final Second Leg preview, predictions and odds<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/premier-league-betting-tips\/leicester-city-vs-tottenham-hotspur-betting-tips-preview-predictions-odds-2\/\">Leicester City vs Tottenham Hotspur betting tips: Preview, predictions &amp; odds<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports coming out of Spain suggest that Aston Villa are interested in the services of Luis Suarez. Suarez\u2019s Atletico stint Suarez, now 34, is still plying his trade on the books of Spanish outfit, Atletico Madrid. Despite his age, Suarez has continued to impress and would score 21 and assist three in 32 La Liga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}