Great move by the club, if it is one of ours. Not to sign him, god no (respect his ability, but not his diving, we already have Mario on that count and that's more than enough), but this may force the hand of others. Get prices up and make people more very early for players we don't really want, then we stroll up an pick the best fruits unopposed.
Do Chelsea have the willingness to spend more money if pushed? Even better, will they spend £50m on Suarez, giving us a free run at Falcao or Neymar?
Will some top European club come in for him? That takes him out of the equation for us to have to play against (we have them at home first game after the window shuts, completely in our interest to make sure he's up till 2am on deadline day), and given Liverpool's position at present I can't see them getting much in terms of quality to replace him - they'd probably just try and buy out Andy Carroll's loan contact from West Ham for another £35m, and spend the rest on Nathan Dyer.
Though a red dipper fan at work suggested this story actually came from Liverpool FC - he said, interestingly, that they want Torres back pretty desperately, liking their scouse figureheads and all, Chelsea will let him go and do like Suarez, but need to save face on the cost of Torres, hence the reason to up Suarez's value now and make it seem like Liverpool are fighting a losing battle to keep him.
Though whether anyone would swap Torres for Suarez, even Liverpool, needs to be seen to be believed.