By Rob Draper Follow @@draper_rob Luis Suarez is understood to be taking advice from a Spanish lawyer with strong links to Barcelona to help him in his appeal against his four-month ban for biting. Juan de Dios Crespo is working with Suarez and the Uruguayan FA with the ongoing appeal to FIFA against the punishment, which also includes a nine-match international ban, after Suarez’s initial legal pleas, which included a denial that the bite took place, proved disastrous and only antagonised FIFA’s disciplinary commission. Barcelona are believed to have insisted that Suarez make a public apology if he wants to move to the Catalan club from Liverpool this summer – and the player obliged yesterday, admitting his guilt for the first time and apologising to Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini.
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Suarez understood to be taking advice from a Spanish lawyer with strong Barcelona links in his biting ban appeal
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Juan de Dios Crespo believed to be working with Suarez and Uruguayan FA
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Barcelona reportedly demanded Suarez make a public apology if he wanted a summer move to the Catalan giants
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De Dios Crespo also helping Barcelona fight their FIFA transfer ban
Suarez previously told @placeholder he did not deliberately bite Giorgio Chiellini but fell on top of him