In demand: Suarez has welcomed the Gunners’ enquiry (Picture: PA)

Liverpool’s Luis Suarez has admitted he is flattered to be linked with a move to Arsenal after the Reds rejected a £30million bid for the striker from the Gunners.

The Reds held an emergency meeting with Suarez’s agent, Pere Guardiola, yesterday to discuss what happens next concerning the Uruguayan international, who announced he wanted to leave Anfield at a press conference last month.

Now, the 26-year-old has been quoted as saying he welcomes the interest from Arsenal, which will not be words Liverpool fans will have wanted to hear.

‘It’s good to know that I am still valued by teams like Arsenal. Friends call me up to ask if I am moving to Chelsea,’ Suarez told Uruguayan radio station Sport 890.




‘Don’t believe everything you read or hear! I am sometimes off the grid. I don’t even know where my phone is sometimes.

‘There have been no offers yet but Liverpool know exactly what is going on and what I want.’

Despite Suarez saying ‘it was time for a change’ and how it would be ‘difficult to say no’ to Real Madrid in May, Liverpool have yet to receive confirmation from the man himself he wants to leave.

However, after Arsenal’s bid, the Reds will be expecting more offers from interested parties, with Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Napoli and Atletico Madrid sure to be monitoring the situation closely.

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