Souness: 'Very difficult' for Suarez to stay at Liverpool

The former Liverpool manager was a TV pundit for Sunday's 2-2 draw between the two clubs at Anfield and was disgusted by the conduct of the Uruguayan, who took Ivanovic's arm into his mouth and bit into it after 66 minutes.

Suarez has repeatedly courted controversy during his time at Liverpool, drawing attention for simulation, clashes with opponents, arguments with referees and, most infamously, racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra and earning an eight-match ban.

Souness now says the former Ajax striker - who joined Liverpool just months after biting an opponent in the Eredivisie - is living on borrowed time on Merseyside.

"I'm not sure what to make of it really, embarrassing," Souness said on Sky Sports 1. "A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

"He is making it very difficult for himself to stay at Liverpool, I believe that puts him in the last chance saloon.

"More important than any of that is to safeguard the good name of the football club. This club is a world renowned football club. It is up there with any Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United, it is up there with any of them."

Souness - who managed Liverpool between April 1991 and January 1994 - was particularly disappointed to see Suarez bring shame on the club just days after the anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster of 1989, which saw 96 Reds fans lose their lives at an FA Cup semi-final.

"People will be talking about this for a long, long time and it's going to show Liverpool in a very bad light – especially in this week of all weeks, anniversary of Hillsborough," he added.

"If you look at Suarez's track record in the past, his incident with Patrice Evra, this is not the first time he has bitten someone in a football match. It can't happen again.

"I firmly believe this puts him in the last chance saloon as a Liverpool player – the board have to see it that way because they're risking everything this great football club stands for."