Liverpool ponder next move as Suarez hit with 10-game ban

Luis Suarez and Liverpool were left “shocked and disappointed” after the striker was hit with a 10-match ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic — a sanction that could see him suspended from domestic football until October.

The severity of the ban caught Liverpool by surprise and the club, who will wait to see the written reasons today before deciding whether to appeal, will now have to make a decision over whether to sell the Uruguay striker.

Suarez missed eight matches last season due to his racist abuse ban, and following the punishment imposed by a Football Association independent regulatory commission now faces the prospect of missing the last four games of this campaign and the first six of next season.