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Liverpool legend Barnes: Club will survive Suarez sale

Liverpool legend John Barnes says the club will survive the sale of Luis Suarez.

Barnes has laid it on the line to Liverpool owner John Henry, telling the American to cash in on the striker.

Barnes said: "If Suarez wants to go then you can't keep him.

"If he's not going to perform and if he's going to be disruptive, then what is the point in having him around?

"I like Suarez as a player. But I like Liverpool Football Club more.

"And what's more important for Liverpool - the club or the player?

"In the past great men have moved on - Kenny Dalglish, Kevin Keegan, Ian Rush - and the club continued.

"If someone like Dalglish wanted to go, the fans would not have backed Kenny. They would have said, 'Get out of our club because the club is more important than you'."

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