His hat-trick in a 4-1 win over West Bromwich Albion in a performance as compelling as anything Liverpool have produced this season made the rehabilitation complete.
Suarez is precious to Anfield. Even during the years of slow decline, Liverpool always possessed a footballer any club in Europe would covet, be it Michael Owen, Fernando Torres or Suarez. He is still theirs.
One of the last banners to be removed from the Kop was a jibe at the club's chief executive, Ian Ayre, reminding him they are "supporters not customers". But Ayre and his manager, Brendan Rodgers, have handled Suarez well.
Like David Moyes with Wayne Rooney, Liverpool have the advantage of dealing with a street footballer, someone who is happiest centre stage with a ball at his feet.
"It was a very difficult summer for him and everyone at Liverpool," said Rodgers. "But once he was told we were not going to sell he has worked as hard as anyone.
"I knew once the decision was made it would be hard for him initially but he would get his head down. That is in his nature. He is not one to fake or feign injury and sit in the treatment room. Once he gets out there, his love of football takes over. As a club we had to make a stand and it is paying off for us and for him."
The question now is whether Liverpool are genuine contenders. Boaz Myhill in the West Bromwich goal thought so, saying that Daniel Sturridge and Suarez were as good as any strike pairing in the league.
"If they score an early goal at Anfield, they will be a match for anyone," said Myhill.
Suarez scores big goals in big games. In his past six matches against the five leading teams from London, Manchester and Merseyside, he has found the net in four. When describing the best save of the match, the one in which he pushed Suarez's overhead kick on to the crossbar, Myhill suggested why.
"He is so sharp, I never even saw him hit it," he said.
Wrapped in her Liverpool scarf, having flown in from Istanbul to watch the game, Caroline Wozniacki, the former world No 1 tennis player, appreciated the artistry as perhaps only another elite athlete can.
She had once warmed up for the Qatar Open in a signed Steven Gerrard shirt. Perhaps it is time for a change of name.
This may be Liverpool's best start to a season since 2008 but if you flick through one of Sir Alex Ferguson's books - not his autobiography but the account of the Treble-winning season - you will see Aston Villa streaking ahead through the early pages, setting a pace they were never able to sustain. Neither Arsenal nor Liverpool have much depth.
And their fate may be decided away from Anfield in a sequence including Arsenal, Everton, Manchester City and Chelsea.
Rodgers did not beat any of the current Champions League sides in his first season at Liverpool.
If they are in the top four when the final whistle goes at Stamford Bridge on December 29, then 2014 may be the year that, with Ferguson gone, Liverpool clamber back on to the perch that he swept them from.
- Independent
