Former Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish believes the club should not wash their hands of Luis Suarez in the wake of his latest biting controversy.

Suarez, who was initially brought to Liverpool in 2011 by Dalglish for £22.8million, has been banned from any football-related activity by Fifa for four months after he bit Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini in last week's World Cup Group D clash.

Although the ban has the potential to rule out last season's PFA and FWA player of the year for a significant chunk of Liverpool's 2014-15 campaign, Dalglish believes they will stick by their man.

"I think you will find that Liverpool will not turn their back on Suarez, whatever the ban Fifa have decided he must serve.

"Of course it will be a heavy blow if the club has to do without him for the opening months of the season," he said.

"That will seem harsh, particularly as he has been in someone else's care for the last few weeks and Liverpool have had no control over him."

It is the third time the 27-year-old has been involved in incidents of biting.

While at Ajax, the Dutch FA banned him for seven matches for biting PSV Eindhoven midfielder Otman Bakkal and last April the FA gave him a 10-game suspension for nibbling on Branislav Ivanovic's arm.

Liverpool stood by Suarez after the Ivanovic incident - just like they did after he was accused, and later found guilty, of racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra in 2011 during Dalglish's second spell managing the club.

Dalglish, who came out strongly to defend Suarez in the press at the time, feels that when a club buys a player "he becomes your responsibility".

"You don't just turn your back on someone because he has done something wrong," he added.

He points to last season's 31-goal return from Suarez as a shining example of what can happen with the right rehabilitation and feels Liverpool have been hard done by given the Chiellini saga has been totally out of their control.

Meanwhile, Uruguay captain Diego Lugano has described Suarez's four-month ban as an act of "barbarity" that breaches the player's human rights.

Suarez sat out Saturday's second-round match against Colombia and Uruguay suffered without him, falling to a 2-0 defeat thanks to a brace from James Rodriguez.

After the match, Lugano lashed out at Fifa for imposing the record ban on Suarez.

"It's a breach of human rights that a player cannot go into a stadium where there are 80,000 people or into a hotel with his team-mates, that he cannot work for four months," the defender said.

"He has committed a crime, but this ban is barbarity.

"Not even a criminal would receive this penalty."