I can't remember the exact quote but David Brent indicated that Suarez's value is 50 million a couple months back.
Before he came out and said it though, I had a sneaky suspicion that had we gone to 50 million without stopping at the 40+1p fiasco and made to look stupid by the cannibal and his people, we'd might well have him. That's not to say I wanted him here but I do suspect that Liverpool had their price despite the public posturing which they had to do.
They wouldn't be the first club to present the façade of 'at no cost' only to renege on their every word eventually.
Diego Costa is all the rage in Spain though. 3 goals behind ConArtist and the Port chav geezer has taken 3 more penalties than him, so make of that what you will.
I make of it that it seems Spain are trying to turn the bloke into a Spaniard for a reason.