I won’t celebrate the same way if I I score at Anfield and I am so sorry

SAYS LUIS SUAREZ

OBVIOUSLY, it is special after enjoying a number of good years here and I am grateful to Liverpool for my time here and how they received me as a player. I will always be thankful for that and the heritage of the club. It is going to be very special to come back here this time wearing a different shirt but I have lovely memories of my time here and my career at Liverpool. It helped me in so many ways. It helped me become more technical. When I came from Ajax, I did improve but having players with great experience allowed me to be even better. Being captain of Liverpool was one of the proudest moments of my career. It is something I won’t forget. Playing in the elite with Barcelona was because of Liverpool and what they made me. I was here for three-and-a-half years and the team had been four or five years without being in the Champions League. In the last year I was here, we got in the Champions League. So I think people know the work I did here. I think there will be more applause than whistles. There may be quite a few who are not happy but I think there will be more who are happy and grateful. Celebrating the goal last week, people who know about football, who love this sport, know about the importance of this. I have all the respect in the world for the Liverpool fans. Because I scored and celebrated with my fans, I say sorry. Obviously, it is clear that if I score a goal against Liverpool, I won’t celebrate it in the same way. If we start to think about the first result we had, it will be an error. We have to play as if there was not a game before. We have to play as if it were a final and the scores were level. It is going to be difficult. We have to be aware of the atmosphere here. We know the fans are going to be behind their side from the start.