Brendan Rodgers has reiterated his belief that Luis Suárez is committed to Liverpool but has admitted that the club's chances of keeping the Uruguay international at Anfield for the long term will depend on making further investment in the squad.

Suárez has scored 10 goals this season and before Sunday's trip to Chelsea the Liverpool manager said: "That's the task for everyone here – the manager and the board – to sell the club moving forward. I have had great support from Luis since I have been here. Both on and off the pitch he's really bought into what we are trying to do. The way of working suits his style and it's up to us as a club to keep moving forward and, when you do that, top players want to be around.

"That's the objective – to keep the best players. I have had recent conversations with Luis and he has never been happier. He loves the club, he loves the football and everything about the training. He seems to be in a good place. It's up to us as a club to add players that can help support him and move us on."

Rodgers is aware that there will be no shortage of suitors for Suárez but said: "Great players will always leave great clubs, that's always happened in the past and it will happen in the future too. But at this moment I am safe in the knowledge that Luis had the chance to go in the summer. There was probably no better time for him to do that, with a new manager coming in.

"He could have had an excuse to go but we spoke at length and he committed to staying. He gave us that opportunity to see how it was going to work and at the minute for him personally it is working really well. We need to keep going and develop it."