Reds' legend Jamie Carragher says that Luis Suarez is becoming a distraction and that Brendan Rodgers is right to remove him from the group as "Nobody wants unhappy players at the training ground or on the pitch playing. It affects other people."
Carragher, for two and a half years a team-mate of Suarez and a man who has never hidden his admiration and respect for the Uruguayan, told Sky Sports News that he witnessed a change in the striker when he returned to train with the squad at Melwood last week. "I know Luis and I've played with him in the last couple of years and he's a warrior. He's a fighter on the pitch and every day in training. He never misses a session. I went in to Friday training before Stevie's testimonial and that wasn't the Luis Suarez I knew."
"I think it's right for Brendan Rodgers to take him out of the group because no one player is bigger than the team or the squad. He's not going to be playing because he's banned, so Liverpool need to concentrate on getting it right for the first game of the season against Stoke. If Suarez is a distraction for everyone then he needs to be taken out of the group."
Carragher also claimed that if he was still at the club he'd be having strong words with Suarez about his conduct, saying; "Sort yourself. You can't have that and can't accept that. There's ways and means of going about it. Players get transferred all the time and you can't always have what you want.
The recently retired defender also explained that selling to Arsenal simply should not be an option for Liverpool if they are to retain any hope of breaking into the top four. "Liverpool Football Club have got to protect themselves as well. Arsenal are a big rival for a top-four place and maybe if he wanted to go somewhere else it wouldn't be such a big issue and maybe Liverpool would sanction a deal.
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