Luis Suarez has been one of the best players in the English Premier League this season. However, when a player has a stellar year for a club struggling to make an impact in the league, it poses certain problems.
The clubs capable of achieving immediate success circle like a pack of wolves to pick and choose their best options - as Arsenal can attest to very well, having gone through that problem for the past seven years or so.
Suarez is reportedly Pep Guardiola's No. 1 target when he takes over at Bayern Munich in the summer. The German club are one of the biggest in Europe and have constantly been winning silverware while competing for the Champions League title.
Therein lies the whole crux of the situation - the Champions League. If Liverpool qualify for Europe's premier competition next year by finishing in the top four, there will be little doubt over Suarez's future.
However, fail yet again and there just might be a difficult decision for Liverpool's hierarchy to make.
They need to be too worried though, because according to Suarez, there is no way he is leaving Anfield anytime soon, even if the Champions League doesn't come calling next season.
"I will wait until the end of the season and see how we are doing," Suarez told the Daily Mail. "We won't know until then how we are doing and what our position is so I am prepared to wait until that time.
"But I want to say now that, if you want to know what will happen to me if we don't qualify for the Champions League, then I will say this: I have a contract with Liverpool and I am very happy here. I will stay.
"This is really a great club. From being a young boy people want to play here. That's why I came here. It's a dream come true.
"You can ask my friends and my brothers and they will tell you. Four or five years ago I always played as Liverpool when I was on the PlayStation."
Liverpool would be nowhere near the seventh position they currently find themselves in were it not for the goals of Suarez, and the Uruguayan just seems to be getting better and better with each passing game, despite playing slightly out of position after the arrival of Daniel Sturridge.
Such is Suarez's rating at Liverpool that Steven Gerrard named him the best striker he has played with. Not a bad statement from someone who has played alongside the likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Fernando Torres.
"I get goose pimples when I hear he said that," Suarez added. "In my country, we call it carne de gallina. Like the skin of a chicken. That's how I feel.
"Gerrard is such a good player and what he said about me I will never forget. It's unbelievable. He has such a good record over many years in the English game and is a great example to all the players here, especially to me.
"We all respect him. He has won almost everything and if anything goes wrong on the pitch he never tells the players off. He just speaks to them afterwards and when he speaks to them you can take it as a fact that he is right. He is just trying to help people."
