Brendan Rodgers: 'Luis Suarez will help attract world-class players'

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers believes that Luis Suarez will help persuade "world-class" talent to join the club in the transfer market.

The Uruguayan has hit 19 goals in just 12 games this season to help propel the Reds to the top of the Premier League, and the Northern Irish boss thinks that the talented Suarez will attract players of a similar standard to Anfield.

Rodgers told the club's official website: "When you've got a world-class player like Suarez, and we've got a number of other young players improving, our selling point is the team and the philosophy.

"Our success here will be based around the team and how we work. Certainly when you've got players of that esteem - Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez, that ilk - top players would like to play with those players.

"Suarez is always at a very high level and, again, was magnificent. He leads from the front, works, presses and is very clever in how he presses the ball."

The table-topping Reds visit Manchester City on Boxing Day.