FORMER Warriors goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar has added his voice on the saga surrounding Liverpool and their player Luis Suarez, claiming that the club should have got “rid” of the striker when he asked to leave in the summer transfer window.
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The Uruguay international reportedly asked to leave Anfield in the July player transfer window to join a “club which is competing in the Champions League”.
But Suarez later backtracked and said he would stay due to “people’s affection”.
However, Liverpool legend Grobbelaar who played for the Reds for over a decade said the club should have got rid of the “bad egg”. Grobbelaar said it’s yet to be seen whether Suarez stays until the end of the season, or even until the January transfer window.
“If you were just judging him by his calibre on the field then of course you would want him at Liverpool,” Grobbelaar told the Mirror newspaper yesterday.
“But when you considered what he said earlier this season and his attitude, I would have got rid of him and gone and got some players who want to be there.
“When he said he wanted to go I was the first one to say: ‘Get rid of him’, because I thought he was going to be a bad egg amongst the team.
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“Brendan Rodgers has kept him at Liverpool but we’ll see how long he actually stays. We’ll see whether he stays until the end of the season or goes in January.”
Suarez was expected to return to action last night against Manchester United in the Capital One Cup following his 10-match ban for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic — and a summer of agitating for a transfer.
Grobbelaar played for Liverpool in the 1980’s — winning the UEFA Champions League, the then European Cup against AS Roma in 1994 when he employed the famous spaghetti legs to save a penalty in a shoot-out.
The eccentric goalkeeper has 32 caps for the Warriors and his last bow for the Warriors came in a 1-0 defeat to Zambia in the 1998 Cosafa Cup final at the National Sports Stadium.
