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Suarez returns to training, say reports

Published: 17 Aug 2013 - 12:19 am | Last Updated: 30 Jan 2022 - 05:38 pm

LONDON: Controversial Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has returned to first-team training, British media reported yesterday.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers had said the only way the Uruguay forward would be back training alongside his team-mates was if he first apologised for suggesting the Reds boss had gone back on a deal allowing him to leave for a Champions League club.

However there has, as yet, been no public confirmation from Liverpool as to whether Suarez has apologised.

Last week Suarez was told to train by himself after Rodgers said his attitude had been well below the standard expected by the Merseyside club.

Arsenal have had two bids, including a reported offer of £40m (€46.9m, $62.5m) for Suarez, rejected by Liverpool.

Suarez will miss the first six games of the new season as he completes a 10-game suspension for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic in April, and Rodgers does not want to discuss the 26-year-old forward until he returns. AFP