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Theo Squires

'They called me donkey' - Luis Suarez can't escape controversial truth as Liverpool star nears move

Luis Suarez Liverpool Nacional FC Barcelona Sofi Ajax Groningen Anfield Europe Ronald Koeman

Luis Suarez is one of Liverpool’s greatest ever Premier League players. Yet the controversial Uruguayan was only ever passing through Anfield when the Reds signed him from Ajax in a £22.8m deal in January 2011.

Netting 82 goals from just 133 games, including the most astonishing individual campaign in 2013/14 as he scored 31 goals in 33 matches to nearly deliver an elusive Premier League title to Liverpool, the forward wowed Kopites for three and a half years before departing for Barcelona under a cloud, having been suspended by FIFA for four months after biting Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup.

Yet by getting his £65m move to the Catalans in July 2014, the striker successfully completed a career plan that had been 11 years in the making. From Nacional to Groningen, to Ajax and then Liverpool, every move was taken with one eventual sight in mind - Barcelona.

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