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His name was chanted repeatedly by around 8,000 vociferous fans who packed into the Gelora Bung Karno National Stadium.

Luis Suarez is a long way from Indonesia but he has still dominated the agenda during the first leg of Liverpool’s pre-season tour.

Every fan in these parts wants to chat and ask the million-dollar question: Is Suarez staying or going?

During last night’s open training session in Jakarta the locals were in the party spirit as they set off flares and paid homage to their heroes with Reds MD Ian Ayre even urged to bring back Xabi Alonso.

Suarez’s outbursts about wanting to move on this summer has done little to dent his popularity among Asian Kopites, but whether that remains the case is likely to become clearer over the next five days.

Tomorrow night Suarez is scheduled to arrive in Melbourne to link up with his team-mates.

His flights are booked and Reds officials are convinced he will fulfil his duties.

Once the Uruguayan has recovered from the jet-lag, manager Brendan Rodgers and Ayre will hold face to face talks with him for the first time since he announced his desire to quit the Reds back in May.

To suggest that Liverpool are resigned to losing last season’s 30-goal top scorer is wildly inaccurate.

If anything the past few weeks have strengthened the club’s resolve to keep their prized asset who is under contract for a further three years.

Liverpool will reinforce the point to Suarez that despite his best attempts to stir up interest, there has been only one bid for his services and that was a derisory £30million offer from Arsenal.

The Gunners have yet to increase that figure for a player Rodgers values around the same mark as fellow Uruguayan Edinson Cavani, who went to Paris St-Germain from Napoli for £55million.

During the talks Down Under Rodgers and Ayre will make it clear that under no circumstances will they allow this saga to drag into next month.

They will also map out to Suarez their vision to take the club forward this season and speak to him about the signings they have in the pipeline.

The message will be clear – give us another 12 months to prove to you that our ambition matches your own.

Don’t go elsewhere to play in the Champions League, stay and fire us back into Europe’s elite.

Liverpool expect Suarez’s future to be much clearer by the time they head for Bangkok on Thursday.

The hope is that by then he will have abandoned thoughts about leaving and reaffirmed his commitment to the cause.

It promises to be an intriguing week.