Kenny Dalglish believes Luis Suarez needs help to learn to control his emotions. The former Liverpool manager also believes the club will stand by Suarez throughout his 4 month ban from football, handed down by FIFA following Suarez biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup.
Writing in his Daily Mirror column, Dalglish said: “It is my belief that when you bring a player to a football club, he becomes your responsibility. You don’t just turn you back on a player because he has done something wrong.
The 27 year old won the Premier League golden boot, and was recognised as the Football Writers Association’s Player of the Year and PFA Player of the Year after a superb season for Liverpool. The accolades were all the more impressive as the striker earned them despite missing the opening games of the season as he was serving a ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic at the end of the previous season. His stellar performance saw manager Brendan Rodgers praised for his handling, and apparent reformation, of Suarez, who had been looking to leave Anfield, and English football, in the summer months of 2013.
“I think you will find that Liverpool will not turn their back on Suarez, whatever the ban FIFA have decided he must serve. Of course it will be a heavy blow if the club has to do without him for the opening months of the season,” Dalglish said.
The World Cup incident is the third biting incident of Suarez’s career and Dalglish says he believes the striker needs renewed help, following on from the help he was given at Anfield, when he met the club psychiatrist. Dalglish believes leaving the club environment may have been an element in the latest incident.
“At the end of the season, he was taken away from the ¬environment that he had responded to so well in Liverpool,” Dalglish said.
“He went to Uruguay to prepare for the World Cup and Liverpool had no control over him from that point.
“You can’t really ask any one person why what happened against Italy happened, because there is only person who knows and that is Luis – some people have injuries you can’t see.
“Sometimes, when people have something wrong with them, just because they don’t have a plaster cast on their leg, people think they don’t need help.”
