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A tweet that has now gone down in Liverpool folklore, club owner John W Henry famously wrote: "What do you think they're smoking over there at the Emirates?"

This was in response to Arsenal's £40m+£1 bid for Uruguay forward Luis Suarez, which they were aware would be enough to get the Merseysiders to inform the player of the bid and begin negotiations - as revealed by former Arsenal transfer fixer Dick Law.

To be ridiculed by the actual owner of Liverpool, enough so that the tweet is still up on Henry's account to this day and has nearly 60k retweets, isn't fair on the Gunners.

Yes, it was a unique offer, but what would the point have been in offering £50k, £500k or even £1m if the north Londoners were aware that anything over £40m would trigger the agreement? The backlash that the offer faced makes no sense whatsoever.

The offer did in fact get the ball rolling and Suarez even told The Guardian that he felt Liverpool should let him leave so he could play Champions League football and honour their promise to him.

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But for Steven Gerrard convincing the former Ajax man to stay put, Arsenal may have got their man and it would've been because of the cheeky offer.

Law reveals that anything over the £40m mark was enough to force Liverpool to inform the 6 foot striker of the offer - something that clubs aren't obliged to do usually - and allowed the striker to discuss a transfer to the Emirates.

The Gunners knew that it wasn't a buyout clause, or a release clause, or anything like that.

As a result, they almost got what they wanted from offering just a pound over £40m, and if Gerrard hadn't been able to convince his teammate to stay put, we may have instead been discussing Arsenal's cheeky offer as a transfer masterstroke instead of the harsh joke that it has now become.