Yeah, we can see this happening…. NAHHHHTTT.
It’s understandable that Arsenal fans might be having a particularly tough Monday after the defeat to Stoke at the weekend put a huge dent in their Premier League title challenge, with Liverpool overtaking them in second place and Man City likely to follow suit if they can win at least one of their two games in hand.
One Arsenal fan seems in especially bad form, however, and has reacted by setting up a petition to demand that Liverpool’s Luis Suarez, the star man in the Reds’ 3-0 victory over Southampton, be released to Arsenal and that Liverpool pay the Gunners a rather hefty sum in compensation.
The petition – set up by the person behind the @FreeSuarez1 account on Twitter – comes in the wake of comments by Liverpool owner John Henry at the weekend when he intimated that he simply chose to ignore the £40 million release clause in Suarez’s contract when Arsenal tried to activate it with a much-publicised bid of £40,000,001 in the summer.
The petition on the website change.org includes a mocked-up picture of Suarez in an Arsenal jersey and demands that Liverpool release Suarez to Arsenal free of charge, that Liverpool apologise to Arsenal and that they pay the Gunners £4.5 million in compensation. Being paid £4.5 million to take Luis Suarez? Sounds like a sweet deal to us.
The person behind the petition has followed it up with a series of posts on Twitter suggesting that his Dad is a lawyer who says Suarez can move to Arsenal for free and warning that Liverpool, in the words of Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network, better ‘lawyer up,’ but the fact that it has only got 383 signatures (at the time of writing) is a reflection of its ridiculousness and that very few people, if anyone at all for that matter, are taking it seriously.
Still, worth a shot, right?
