Suarez is 100 per cent a Barcelona player! Spanish giants confirm deal for Liverpool striker

Luis Suarez is now '100 per cent' a Barcelona player, the club's sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta has confirmed.

Liverpool announced last week they had accepted an offer, understood to be £75million, from the Spanish giants.

Now he has put the finishing touches to his switch, which has been complicated by the four-month ban he received for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup.

The terms of the suspension meant he could not be formally unveiled at the Nou Camp on Wednesday morning, but Zubizarreta announced the deal has been finalised.

"He's 100 per cent a member of the club," he said.

Suarez will be ineligible to play for Barcelona or even train with his teammates until the end of October, unless any appeal lodged with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is successful.

And Zubizarreta remained tightlipped when asked whether Barca were making moves to reduce the length of the ban.

"Luis Suarez is a Barcelona player for all purposes but the recommendation from our lawyers has been to remain discreet," he said.

"Our lawyers tell us that we should be very prudent with what we say and your question is asking about something that could only happen after certain verdicts have been reached. Then we'll be able to explain things better.

"But it's fact, it's true. He's 100 per cent a member of the club.

"We're speaking to our lawyers to find out the best way of defending his rights but at the moment there's nothing I can say about that."