Top 10 South Americans in Premier League history

#2 Luis Suarez

Luis Suarez's goalscoring record was phenomenal at Liverpool

Like him or loathe him – and many do the latter after some of the incidents he was involved in, such as the racism controversy with Patrice Evra, and the biting of Branislav Ivanovic – nobody can deny that Luis Suarez had a monstrous impact during what was essentially a very brief Premier League career. The Uruguayan only spent three full seasons at Liverpool but while he was there he was phenomenal – scoring more than 30 goals in all competitions in his final two seasons, including a ridiculous 31 Premier League goals in 33 games in 2013/14.

That was of course the season that Liverpool came oh-so-close to winning that elusive Premier League title, and while plenty of others had a lot to do with that title challenge – Philippe Coutinho, Daniel Sturridge, Steven Gerrard et al – it was Suarez who was always the focal point, always in the thick of things, and it was unsurprising when he was named the Premier League’s Player of the Season that year.

The fact that Suarez was so good made his dark side even more frustrating – his record of 54 goals in 66 Premier League games in his final two seasons was so good that the only players with more goals over a two-season period are Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry. Who knows how many more he would’ve scored had he not spent ten games suspended for the biting incident? And who knows how many he could’ve scored had he not been seduced by a move to Barcelona in the summer of 2014?