Arsene Wenger has dismissed Steven Gerrard's claims that Luis Suarez was too good to move to Arsenal last summer.

The Gunners looked to land the Liverpool forward 12 months ago with a bid of £40million plus one pound – but the move proved unsuccessful and the Uruguay international went on to start for a Liverpool side fighting for the title.

Suarez, currently banned from all football for four months after biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during a World Cup group game, has now moved to Barcelona – with Gerrard admitting he had told the 27-year-old to stay put last year.

"Last summer when he was out in the cold and training on his own (following an earlier ban for biting) that's the conversation I had with him. I said: 'Don't go to Arsenal'," the Liverpool captain revealed. "I would have been really sad and disappointed to see Luis go to Arsenal. With all due respect to them, I said to him that he was too good for Arsenal."

But Wenger, who instead signed Real Madrid's Mesut Ozil for a club-record fee, insists no player would deem themselves too good for his side.

"You're never too good for Arsenal and Steven Gerrard knows that," he said during his press conference ahead of this weekend's Emirates Cup.

"But I can understand completely that he asked him to stay because he wanted him (Suarez) to play with him and have a chance to win the Premier League. But it didn't happen, and anyway, Suarez left."