Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is aiming to appeal over his four-month football suspension.
The Daily Mail says Suarez is understood to be taking advice from a Spanish lawyer with strong links to Barcelona to help him in his appeal against his four-month ban for biting.
Juan de Dios Crespo is working with Suarez and the Uruguayan FA with the ongoing appeal to FIFA against the punishment, which also includes a nine-match international ban, after Suarez's initial legal pleas, which included a denial that the bite took place, proved disastrous and only antagonised FIFA's disciplinary commission.
Barcelona are believed to have insisted that Suarez make a public apology if he wants to move to the Catalan club from Liverpool this summer - and the player obliged yesterday, admitting his guilt for the first time and apologising to Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini.
De Dios Crespo, an expert on sports law, is the same lawyer Barcelona have used to help them fight their transfer ban that was imposed by FIFA after they were found guilty of infringing regulations in signing youth-team players from abroad,
