I saw earlier that Arsenal were offering £42m for Suarez, £35m in cash, and £7m in add ons.
A £40,000,001 offer would be funny though.
Liverpool feel they have to inform him of any offers over £40m, but they don't have to accept any offers over that price. They seem pretty confident that they are in control over that.
I don't see why the best Uruguayan is being touted for around £40m, when the 2nd best has just gone for £55m. :shrug:
As soon as Real can move Higuain on, probably to Napoli by the look of it, they may actually make a bid and give Suarez the move he actually wants. Of course if Real use the money to bid for Bale, I don't think they will go after Suarez too. :shrug:
Higuain actually sits in between Suarez and Cavani in the goals per game stats, with Suarez being the most prolific. Suarez 1.75 gpg, Higuain 1.85 gpg, and Cavani 1.97 gpg. Yet Cavani has been the most sought after.
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I think you've got yourself confused. Higher number is better in regards to goals per game, making Suarez the
least prolific going by the goals per game stat you've provided. Although I'm not sure where you've got your stats from. I make it as follows:
1. Cavani - 34 games, 29 goals = 0.853 goals per game
2. Suarez - 33 games, 23 goals = 0.697 goals per game
3. Higuain - 28 games, 16 goals = 0.571 goals per game
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Squawka stats)
Now obviously that's far from the full picture. Both Cavani and Suarez are prolific shot takers (134 and 143, respectively) whilst Higuain takes far fewer shots (48). This reflects in how clinical they are. Higuain is the most clinical, scoring with 33.3% of his shots. Cavani the second most clinical, scoring with 21.6% of his shots. Suarez is the least clinical of the three, scoring with a pretty dismal 16.1% of his shots - a stat that he's improving year on year in the PL, though.
Again, that's not where the comparison ends. You also have to consider their aerial ability, their creative presence, their defensive contributions and so on.
As a creative force, Suarez is streets with 84 key passes compared to Cavani's 27 and Higuain's 17. Despite that Suarez still only has 5 assists. Equal with Higuain and only 1 more than Cavani.
The area where Suarez really stands out is in his dribbling ability. He succeeded with a league high of 95 take ons (at a success rate of 37%) compared to Cavani on 37 (46% success) and Higuain on 20 (44%).
Unsurprisingly Suarez is poor in the air, winning just 12 headers (29% of those he challenged for), compared to Cavani's 30 (41%) and Higuain's 25 (41%).
Defensively, Cavani made the biggest contribution, with a whopping 63 clearances (I'd guess predominantly from corners, but that's speculation on my part), compared to just 21 by Higuain and 6 by Suarez. For the rest of the defensive stats check
here.
You're probably beginning to see now that they're quite different players. Suarez is a creative force who can make something happen whilst Higuain and Cavani are the instinctive goal-scorers whom you can depend on to put away a high proportion of the chances they get.
For my money, Cavani is the best of the bunch because of his all-round game. He's clinical with both his head and feet, and he works tirelessly both offensively and defensively.
I'm seeing a growing number of Arsenal fans wanting us to sign Suarez but there's one thing that really puzzles me. 3 months ago the consensus was that what we lacked was an absolutely clinical finisher. Suarez's conversion rate is arguably the very weakest part of his game so it seems strange to me that so many Arsenal fans have lost sight of what it is they were after.
I've done all that without bringing disciplinary records into it, which obviously has an impact on their valuation too
If we sign Suarez I'll be happy by the signal of intent. Time will tell whether it proves a stroke of genius or a mistake. If Wenger can bring his temperament under control - something no other manager has managed - then he'll be an absolute revelation. I'm just not convinced he can ever lose the deeply unpleasant side to his game and when he next causes a controversy you can guarantee the suspensions will only get longer and longer. If we're spending £40m+ on someone I want 40 games a season out of him, not 20!
I'd sooner take Higuain for less and get Fabregas too.
I'm also rather taken by the idea of tempting Luis Gustavo away from Bayer Munich. He'd be an incredible addition to our midfield! He's reportedly available for £8m which is an absolute steal in my eyes!
Suarez, and almost a whole team of subs came on with about 20 mins to go. 
Suarez didn't look his usual live wire self, whether that was pouting because of a potential move or that he has only been back for a couple of days, :shrug: that's what is going to be the speculation though from now on. :bang:
