FC Barcelona could be considered a nightmare year. He finished the 2019/2020 season without any trophies and was the last game it was a shame in this pandemic campaign. Bayern Munich beat “Blaugrana” 8-2 in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. It was a signal that it was on Camp Nou big changes are needed. One of the victims of the revolution was Luis Suarez. The Uruguayan in the last interview mentioned that period. His words about Leo Messi are more surprising.
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Suarez had never seen Messi like this
Over the years Suarez has formed with Messi and Neymar one of the best offensive trio in football history. The Brazilian, however, preferred to become a prominent figure, so he left for Paris Saint-Germain. The Uruguayan and the Argentine were left alone and the end of their joint adventure in Barcelona was a painful experience.
The whole world was shocked to see the result of the clash between the “Duma of Catalonia” and Bayern. The players in the locker room were completely shattered mentally and emotionally. Suarez still remembers seeing Messi in tears.
– So, I saw Messi cry like never before. He was devastated, seeing what was going on with the club he grew up in – he told him in an interview with Star + TV.
Barcelona was on the verge of collapse
After this match, Suarez went for little money Atletico Madridand Messi asked transfer. In the end, there was another season left at the Camp Nou. However, all have witnessed the slow collapse of the club due to the irresponsible financial policy of president Josep Maria Bartomeu. Cosmically large salaries for soccer playersoverpaid wire transfers that wouldn’t pay off, a few other financial scams that could put Bartomeu in jail – all of which resulted in over a billion euros in debt.
New CEO Joan Laporta rebuilds Barcelona without Messi. The club’s financial situation in the summer of 2021 did not give him a chance to stay. Laporta brought in some new players a year later, incl. Robert Lewandowski, maintained the club’s financial liquidity and partially repaid the resulting debt. He has argued more than once that FC Barcelona are on their way out of the hole in which previous authorities found themselves.
Recently, there have been reports of Messi’s return to Camp Nou in 2023, but neither side confirms the rumors. But there is nothing to count on Suarez’s return. His form at Atletico declined until he moved to the Uruguayan Club Nacional. He is inevitably approaching the end of his career.
