How ex-Liverpool coach ‘convinced’ Suarez to snub Juventus transfer – Football Italia

Luis Suarez revealed that he ‘wanted’ to join Juventus from Liverpool in 2012, but Brendan Rodgers convinced him to stay ‘with his football ideas.’

We all know Luis Suarez was close to joining Juventus from Barcelona in the 2020 summer transfer window, but the experienced forward recently revealed he had wanted to move to Turin nearly ten years earlier.

How ex-Liverpool coach ‘convinced’ Suarez to snub Juventus transfer

“I wanted to go to Juventus in 2012, but Brendan Rodgers convinced me to stay with his football ideas,” the Inter Miami striker told Davoo Xeneize via TMW.

Suarez scored 61 goals in 81 Liverpool games under Rodgers. Antonio Conte was the Juventus coach in 2012. One year later, the Bianconeri signed Carlos Tevez from Manchester City for barely €9m.

Suarez, a former Barcelona and Liverpool striker, joined Liverpool in the January 2011 transfer window and remained at the club for three and a half years.

Suarez came close to joining Juventus also in 2020, when he was a Barcelona player.

That year, he even travelled to Perugia to undergo an Italian citizenship test before a possible transfer to the Allianz Stadium, but the deal between Juve and Barcelona eventually collapsed, and Italian authorities investigated the exam.

Suarez joined Atletico Madrid instead, where he scored 34 goals in 83 matches across two seasons.