Liverpool may lose Suarez to PSG

Cash-rich French club Paris Saint Germain have lined up Liverpool star Luis Suarez as their main target this summer, according to the Mirror.

The ambitious Ligue 1 club who missed out on a Champions League last season are determined to become biggest club in Europe by unleasing a £85 million war chest, the report added.

Billionaire Nasser Al Khelaifi, the chairman of Qatar Sports Investment, who recently took over 100 per cent control of the club, said: "We are already looking at the market for next season.

"We have clear targets in mind. It is true that we want Luis Suarez and (Real Madrid striker) Gonzalo Higuain.

"Our real short-term targets are to win the Champions League and find a new Lionel Messi."

Al Khelaifi sanctioned the £40 million signing of Palermo playmaker Javier Pastore last summer and was ready to pay out for David Beckham, Carlos Tevez and AC Milan's Alexandre Pato in January.

He says PSG, already topping the French league under former Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti, planned to spend 100m euros a year for the next "five or six years".

"We will spend what is normal for a top-class club," he added. "We prefer to invest a lot and immediately.

"In the next five or six years, we still spend this amount. Then the investments will slow."

However, Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish is likely to resist any move for Suarez who defended staunchly even when he was found quilty of racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra.

But relations between the club management and the Uruguay striker has soured somewhat following his refusal to shake hands with Evra during a Premier League against United following his return from serving an eight-match ban.
 

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