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It is my belief that when you bring a player to a football club, he becomes your responsibility.

I know that lots of people are jumping up and down and saying that Liverpool should disown Luis Suarez.

Others are saying that the striker has become more trouble than he is worth, too.

But you don’t just turn your back on someone because he has done something wrong.

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.

That will seem harsh, particularly as he has been in someone else’s care for the last few weeks and Liverpool have had no control over him.

When he was punished by the FA for the biting incident with Branislav Ivanovic and banned from domestic games, he was still allowed to play for his national team.

It seems a bit strange, then, that when he is banned for something he did with his national team, his club has to suffer, too.

There are several things to say about Luis and what he did against Italy this week.

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.

Well, after the Ivanovic incident last year, Liverpool gave Luis help - and he was receptive to that help.

He had meetings with the club psychiatrist, Steve Peters, as other players have, and he showed remorse and a willingness to be rehabilitated.

If a player shows a willingness to be helped, then you have a responsibility to help him.

Last season, he was a fantastic player for Liverpool, not just because of the goals he scored and the goals he made but because of his behaviour, too. He behaved impeccably, actually, something that was recognised when the Football Writers Association made him their Footballer of the Year.

At the end of the season, he was taken away from the ­environment that he had responded to so well in Liverpool.

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.

Amid all the noise, that’s one thing that is maybe worth remembering.