Former Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamann feels the club will be better off without Luis Suarez - because he can't be trusted not to put the bite on another player.

Suarez hit 31 league goals to help Liverpool finish second in the Premiership.

The Uruguay forward was hit with a four-month ban from all football-related activities for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup and Liverpool sold him to Barcelona for £75million.

Suarez is due to learn the outcome of his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on today.

In the meantime, the Merseysiders have splashed their cash to bring in a raft of new players in such as Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert and Dejan Lovren from Southampton, Emre Can from Bayer Leverkusen and Lazar Markovic from Benfica.

Ex-Germany star Hamann said: "Liverpool have bought well. I have always been critical of Suarez's antics.

"In footballing terms, he is a big loss, but somebody else will score the goals and I think, long-term, they will be better off without him than with him.

"I'd rather have the six or seven players they have now than Suarez.

"If you want to win things, you need people you can trust, and he can't be trusted.

"If he does something stupid again, he could be out for years, or for good.

"All he has to show from his time at Anfield is a League Cup winner's medal from 2011/12.

"He is not leaving a team that was ruling the Premier League or Europe during the last few years. He scored goals, but at the end of the day they only got into the Champions League with him last season."