Arsenal of Late seem to dominate the summer headlines in 2011 we had the Fabregas & Nasri affair, in 2012 we had Persiegate, this summer we have the never ending tale of Luis Suarez. Nice for a change we’re not the one dealing with the player agitating for a move though Gooners isn’t it?

The latest story run by Sky Sports as of today is:

“Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has 'no plans' to apologise as transfer saga continues”

After the aggravation of last year with “He Who Must Not Be Named“ ( I nearly crashed my car when I heard the transfer announced on the radio on the way home from work) I find it hard not to feel for Liverpool as they are in a far worse position than we were before we had our battle against the many headed adversary of any club “Player Power”.

As much as many would like to see these players rot in the reserves, Wenger made the right decision disgruntled players are an unnecessary distraction, we got 25million depending on where you read and we seemed to regained this team spirit and collective responsibility that we lost somewhere along the way.

Liverpool now face this with Suarez who refuses to apologise for his attempts to engineer a move to the Emirates. Suarez ostracized in training since his now infamous interviews with the Guardian and The Telegraph and will not be brought back into the fold till he apologises to his team mates and fans according to Brendan Rodgers.

Rodgers while trying to remain firm, to me just reeks of desperation to keep the start striker, which at this point has no chance of going back to the rosy “incident free” relationship that once was, even Cavani who recently made his £55m move to Paris St Germain is adding pressure calling for the club to just leave him go.

From Liverpool’s point view they should just get the best price they can as quick as they can and invest as wisely as they have under Rodgers regime and attempt to make some progress back to European football this season.

As an Arsenal fan I feel we have been burned to many times by Player Power to readily stick my hand back in the flames for a man who is already in the process of forcing his second move, a year after signing a new contract especially so soon after Nasri, Van Persie & (to an extent) Fabregas. Especially for a player with such a colourful past who is to cost in excess of £40m.

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