Official Luis Suarez new Atletico de Madrid forward

a is official. Luis Suárez leaves Fútbol Club Barcelona to head to Atlético de Madrid , where he arrives for free (with six million in variables for objectives) after terminating his contract with the Culé entity and signs an agreement for the next two seasons, with a salary close to the 9 million euros net per course. He leaves behind six Barça campaigns, 198 goals (in 283 games), four Leagues (one Pichichi ), as many Cups , a Champions League , a European Super Cup, two from Spain and a Club World Cup. A track record and overall performance that place him, possibly, as the best 9 in the history of Barça. Blaugana legend.Luis is forced to leave (at 12.30 he will have a farewell act), because he did not want to leave Can Barça. His last game as culé will be 8-2. A week later he said that he would be happy to continue , even in a substitute role, but the next day he received a call from Ronald Koeman, in which he informed him that he did not have him. A call of less than two minutes to show the exit door to a Barcelona myth.From there he began to look for a destination, which he finally found in the Metropolitan Wanda , after being discarded by Juventus . El Cholo Simeone , who has always shown great devotion to the ram, and thanks to the economic viability which gave him the assignment of 10 million , of Morata (record nine million) to the Vecchia Signora , has managed to recruit to their cause .At 33 years old, and with two knee surgeries in May of last year and January of this year, the Uruguayan wants to continue competing at the highest level. And Atlético de Madrid offers him that opportunity, knowing the combative spirit and winner of the ‘9’, which will surely be joined by the spirit of revenge after his departure from Barça .

Luis Suárez is the great heavyweight who pays for the broken dishes of the Barça season, as happened to Zubizarreta after Athens . Numerically it was not a bad year for him, 36 games and 21 goals, although he started the course by injuring himself and was able to finish it thanks to the Covid break, because in January he had said goodbye to the season . He had one year left on his contract and another optional if he played 60% of the games.But from the Board and the sports management they opted to give it an exit, to be able to undertake more signings that please Koeman – with Lautaro as a priority, although it becomes complicated – on the one hand and on the other, to air the dressing room windows, given the power he had as Messi’s lieutenant . It was intended to balance forces in the booth, dominated by Leo and Suárez to the point of putting Setién in check , publicly (slights and statements ) and privately. And in this way to give flight to Dembélé and Griezmann , very overshadowed by the society of 10 and 9.

The sour point and end will pass, and their goals will remain. His doublets at the Etihad and Paris on the way to Berlin , where he also scored; his poker and three assists at Riazor , 11 goals against Madrid , including a hat-trick or a Panenka, the Cruyff-style penalty that he stole from Neymar , his memorable high heel against Mallorca … The catalog has been endless: from outside the area, head, Chilean (a few), first, with the toe or outside, pulling pipes into the area before finishing, vaseline, incomparable his volley shot, often half scissors.In the newspaper library, goals will survive in the race (in Paris in 2015, Atlético himself in 2017) that are no longer within reach. The years and the knee have reduced his ability to counterattack or long-winded personal plays, but instinct and the goal will have them until he retires. End to the best years of Suárez , who nevertheless leaves without being able to bury his drought at home in Champions (2015). Will he achieve it hand in hand with Cholo? … who knows, it is the same at the Camp Nou if the hype makes one of those capricious commendations, as long as both teams pass the group stage.

The ‘Operation Villa’, a good precedent for Atlético and SuárezIn recent years, the airlift between Barcelona and Madrid has been more active than ever. From Atlético, Arda Turan (2015) emigrated , without much success, and Griezmann (2019), still with much to demonstrate , for a total of 154 million euros , and David Villa (2013) landed in the capital , in a very similar operation to that of Luis Suárez.The top scorer in the history of the National Team donned the rojiblanco 9 after paying 2.1 ‘kilos’ plus three in variables that were never given , a ridiculous amount taking into account the performance of Tuilla’s at the Vicente Calderón . David, who shared the lead with Diego Costa, the Pistolero’s future teammate, played 47 games , scoring 15 goals and five assists , figures that helped Atlético win their tenth League, precisely at the Camp Nou, and reach the Champions League final. .