Liverpool agree to sell Suarez for 75 mln-pound to Barca

Liverpool has reportedly agreed to sell Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez, who is serving a four-month ban from all football-related activity for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during the World Cup, to Barcelona for a fee worth about 75 million pounds.

Suarez, who scored 31 Premier League goals last season, would sign a five-year deal.

According to the BBC, the Uruguay international would travel to the Spanish club next week fro a medical.

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers said that Suarez is a very special talent and he thanks the striker for the role he has played.

Suarez, who is last season's Premier League top scorer and winner of the PFA and Football Writers' Player of the Year awards, signed for Liverpool from Ajax in 2011 for 22.7 million pounds, and still has four years left on his contract.

The move to Barca would take Suarez closer to his wife Sofia's family.

The striker said that he hopes people can understand why he has made this decision, adding that Liverpool has did all they could to get him to stay, but playing and living in Spain, where his wife's family lives, is a lifelong dream and ambition for him.

If the transfer fee is confirmed at 75 million pounds, it would be the third biggest in football history after Gareth Bale, who moved from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid in 2013for 86 million pounds, and Cristiano Ronaldo, who moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009 for 80 million pounds, the report added.