Rodgers: Gunners’ Suarez bid made them a laughing stock

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers admitted Arsenal’s “ill-advised” bid to sign striker Luis Suarez turned them into something of a laughing stock at Anfield.

Arsenal submitted a £40m-plus-a-pound offer for Suarez under the misapprehension that it would trigger a release clause in the Uruguay international’s contract.

Under the terms of Suarez’s deal with Liverpool, though, the club only had to make the player aware of fact they had received offer, and were not necessarily obliged to accept.