{"id":3138,"date":"2014-03-30T03:26:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T03:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2014-03-30T06:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T06:00:37","slug":"rodgers-as-adamant-he-treds-28-goal-marksman-is-not-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/rodgers-as-adamant-he-treds-28-goal-marksman-is-not-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodger Says Red&#8217;s 28-Goal Marksman Is Not For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Brendan Rodgers reckons Luis Suarez is on course to become the first \u00a3100million player.<\/p>\n<p>Kop boss insists striker is not for sale but feels his level of play merits pricetag in same ballpark as \u00a380m Cristiano Ronaldo and \u00a386m Gareth Bale<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool manager Rodgers is adamant the Red&#8217;s\u00a028-goal marksman is not for sale, in spite of repeated links with Real Madrid and other top clubs in Europe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But the Uruguayan&#8217;s\u00a0rise from biting shame to favourite for every individual honour in English football has intensified the interest.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And, just like Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale before him, he could be offered the chance to go to Spain if the price is right.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United were paid a World record \u00a380m for Ronaldo, Tottenham a new high mark of \u00a385m for Bale and Rodgers believes Suarez is nearing the \u00a3100m bracket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is certainly heading towards that,\u201d said Rodgers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the top people in the world, the Ronaldos, the Messis, those who have been doing it for five or six years, he would be right at that level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuis is certainly on his way towards that. His consistency has been phenomenal and what you see now is a more mature player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a world-class talent. Things evolve and times change. Time will tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool would surely find an offer on that scale difficult to resist, but Rodgers insisted: \u201cThat is not something even to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Rodgers reckons Luis Suarez is on course to become the first \u00a3100million player. Kop boss insists striker is not for sale but feels his level of play merits pricetag in same ballpark as \u00a380m Cristiano Ronaldo and \u00a386m Gareth Bale Liverpool manager Rodgers is adamant the Red&#8217;s\u00a028-goal marksman is not for sale, in spite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}