Liverpool’s star forward Luis Suárez perfectly demonstrated how the lives of sports stars change. He is the same man who bit the arm of a Chelsea player and faced a ten-matches suspension some twelve months back, in fact, he saw a drastically gloomy period after that including his open statement showing his dissent with club bosses or one dollar extra bid placed by Arsenal to trigger his contract clause. Thereafter, he improved, improved a lot, and showed why is among the best forwards of contemporary soccer. He got contract extension and became the eye candy for Liverpool side who is now ruling the league table this season. If experts’ predictions are to be believed, Reds could end their over two decades old title drought this season despite losing to Chelsea yesterday that put a small dent over their title hopes, and if they could win English topflight, Suarez would surely be an important contributor for this feat. Anyways, Professional Footballers’ Association has already acknowledged his class and awarded him Association Players’ Player of the year award.
If we look at his performance throughout this league season, he has fired 30 goals out of 31 played games along with 12 assistances this excludes the first four games that he had to miss for his ban. There were many heavyweights with him under the list of finalists, including teammates Steven Gerrard and Daniel Sturridge, Chelsea’s Eden Hazard, Manchester City’s Yaya Toure, and Southampton’s Adam Lallana, but selectors chose him considering the impact his performances left over Liverpool’s position on the leaderboard. Team manager Rodgers appreciated his great afford to bring them up in the table and said, “He is a brilliant talent. I think the supporters have seen him mature over the course of the last season. I think he was in a real low moment after that game but he has gone away and probably looked in the mirror and reflected on himself because he is not that type of guy and it probably just spilled over.
“He is a really intelligent man who fits the values of this club, which is all about humility, class and he has all of that. He is a sheer winner and that probably overspilled last year but his development over the last year has been remarkable both on and off the field and Liverpool have benefited from that. For me he is the consistently outstanding player over the course of the last year.”