A Dutch warning to Arsenal on the risks of signing Suarez – He won’t change!! I’m sure most Arsenal fans are aware that our transfer target Luis Suarez played for two clubs in Holland before joining Liverpool. We also know that
he has a bad reputation in England, but his potential transfer to Arsenal is making waves in Holland as well. The following article is a translation of a Dutch piece which went out on a well respected football site Voetball International, and is an interesting insight into what the Dutch think of him.
Arsenal takes a risk with Suarez by Tom van Hulsen (Kindly translated by Job Swart)
When he was fifteen Luis Suarez, then part of the Nacional Montevideo youth system,
gave a referee a headbutt after he had given him a red card. The referee had a broken nose and a heavily bleeding forehead. The young forward got a long term suspension.
In November 2010, the whole Dutch football world was shocked when Suarez, who was a striker at Ajax at the time,
bit Otman Bakkal from PSV in his shoulder.
Result: 7 match suspension. You would think that such an act would be a result of a blackout or something, but in a home game at Liverpool against Chelsea, Suarez repeated his action. Out of nowhere
he bit Branislav Ivanovic in his right arm, which gave him the nickname ‘Dracula’ and a ten match ban.
As a Uruguay international earlier this year,
Suarez gave his direct opponent Gonzalo Jara a punch in the face, but because the referee didn’t see the hit he got away with it. 
Also, the 26-year old Suarez has produced so many dives in his football career, that you could easily make a full movie out of it. O
n top of it all, he got an eight match ban for an apparent racial comment to Manchester United player Patrice Evra. It was also strange that at the end of May, Suarez told a Uruguayan radio station that he didn’t think the English press treated him fairly. 
The obvious conclusion: Luis Suarez has absolutely no self-reflection.
“Technically and tactically you are good” said Suarez back in 2009 to Dutch reporter Tom Knipping, when talking about Dutch football. “But if you really want to win international prizes, than you also need real passion. Passion. The manager always knows: Luis always plays with his heart. Football is in our blood, we experience the sport with more passion”.
Rúben Sosa, former Uruguayan international added: “For other countries football is a sport. For us, football is a tragedy.”
A tragedy. That’s how some Arsenal fans describe the possible Luis Suarez transfer from Liverpool to Arsenal. For years they laughed at him, and got irritated at the very talented, but oh so annoying diver. And now it appears that the club from London will sign the forward for somewhere between 40 and 50 million pounds.
This would be a great deal for Liverpool. In 2011 they already got Chelsea crazy enough to pay 50 million for Fernando Torres and now they seem about to pull off the same trick with Luis Suarez. They signed him from Ajax, back in 2011, for 22,8 million pounds to replace Fernando Torres and they will double their money. Well done!
On the other hand, Arsenal don’t know what they are getting themselves into. The board has given Arséne Wenger 70 million pounds to invest in the squad. With the signing of Suarez they will have almost no money left. On top of it all: the Uruguayan proved that it wasn’t a “once but never again” type of incident. You can easily conclude that he doesn’t learn from his mistakes.
At the start of the season, he will have to sit out a six match ban with his new club, which he still has left from the biting incident with Ivanovic.
Next season we will, undoubtedly, see him dive, attacking referees, making ridiculous fouls and swearing at opponents. Every incident will be seen by the media with a magnifying glass. Under these circumstances, Luis Suarez has to help his new club to be title contenders once more.
I will make one prediction: Arsenal will never get more money from selling Suarez, than they might be paying for him. It’s more likely that his price will go down, than up. Sometimes you have to take a risk to get to the next level, but Arsenal is taking a massive risk by signing Suarez.