A FRUSTRATED Norwich City supporter was overheard bemoaning how match-winner Luis Suarez had cost Liverpool an amount of money his side could only dream of.

The problem was, this Canaries’ fan had his sums slightly wrong.

He claimed Liverpool had shelled out £60m for the Uruguayan.

Suarez arrived on Merseyside for around a third of that figure but following his wonderful hat-trick at Carrow Road on Saturday, his value may actually be hovering around that monumental amount of cash.

For manager Brendan Rodgers, Suarez’s stylishly taken treble was the catalyst for his first victory in the league, with goals from Nuri Sahin and Steven Gerrard adding emphasis to Liverpool’s control of the game at the weekend.

Though Rodgers was keen to stress the importance of the win for the team, Saturday also presented a personal triumph for the manager and a victory as much for him as the team.

A win in the Premier League has come at the sixth attempt but Rodgers, his players and the Anfield faithful have felt that winning in such a commanding fashion is something which has been brewing strongly for weeks.

Only in the defeat to Arsenal have Liverpool given us reason for concern.

And as the exasperating draw with Manchester City was followed by the injustice of defeat to Manchester United, there was always a feeling that sooner than later a side would be engulfed by Liverpool.

Unfortunately for that upset fan who called into his local radio station and for the majority of people inside Carrow Road on Saturday, it was Norwich City on the wrong end of a Liverpool performance when much went for them, instead of against.

But make no mistake, Rodgers did not claim his maiden win in the Premier League with Liverpool via a slice of good fortune, a lucky deflection or on the generous decision of a referee.

From the second minute, when Suarez showed strength and precision to fire Liverpool ahead, Rodgers men were in control of the game and by cutting a swathe of destruction through this gentle Norfolk city, showed a hint of the clinical streak on which the club’s success has been built.

And after destroying the Canaries in the corresponding fixture last season with a memorable hat-trick, Suarez repeated the feat just five months later

Were his goals as impressive as the ones scored in April?

You may argue not, yet their significance could be greater as they helped Rodgers open his account.

Suarez now has six goals in two games against Norwich and since the game in April, has scored more times at Carrow Road than any home player.