{"id":1126,"date":"2014-09-01T06:35:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T06:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2014-09-01T06:35:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T06:35:23","slug":"suarez-engineered-his-exit-gerrard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Suarez engineered his exit \u2014Gerrard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"nrelate_flyout_placeholder\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1127\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Steven-Gerrard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1127\" alt=\"Steven Gerrard\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Steven-Gerrard-279x300.jpg\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Steven-Gerrard-279x300.jpg 279w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Steven-Gerrard.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Gerrard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Steven Gerrard knew Luis Suarez would \u2018engineer\u2019 a way out of Liverpool when he saw him bite Giorgio Chiellini during the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Uruguayan, who was handed a four month ban for the offence, switched Anfield for Barcelona in the summer in a \u00a375m move, following a superb season for Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Jamie Carragher on <em>Sky Sports <\/em>ahead of his side\u2019s Super Sunday clash with Tottenham, Gerrard revealed he had hoped Suarez would stay in the North West for at least one more season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew there was no way back for him then and I knew he was going to engineer a way out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he was resigned to losing last season\u2019s top scorer when he saw Suarez\u2019s headline-grabbing actions in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he was going to stay, I thought we\u2019d have got another year out of him,\u201d said Gerrard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was actually already on the floor when I saw the bite because we knew we were going out. It was a double blow, knowing you\u2019re going out of the World Cup and knowing you\u2019re going to lose your best player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew there was no way back for him then and I knew he was going to engineer a way out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Gerrard knew Luis Suarez would \u2018engineer\u2019 a way out of Liverpool when he saw him bite Giorgio Chiellini during the World Cup. The Uruguayan, who was handed a four month ban for the offence, switched Anfield for Barcelona in the summer in a \u00a375m move, following a superb season for Liverpool. Speaking to Jamie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Steven-Gerrard.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-ia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}