Rodgers ready to unleash Suarez

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers claims Luis Suarez has suffered from not playing football during his 10-match ban but does not expect that to have dulled the striker’s fighting spirit.

The Reds boss is confident the 26-year-old, whom he said was “champing at the bit”, is ready both physically and mentally to return.

However, he is less sure about whether the player had learned from the sanction imposed for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic in April.