The end of the season is approaching and the future of some Atlético players has to be clarified. Within the template there is a name that stands out above the rest. Luis Suárez’s contract ends in June and his future is yet to be determined. The Uruguayan striker was vital last year, his first as a rojiblanco, establishing himself as the capital in achieving the League title. Among all the competitions, Suárez scored 21 of Atlético’s 67 goals last season. 31% of the team’s production, with an average of 0.64 goals per ninety minutes.
During this sum 13, maintaining the best scoring average of the entire team despite the fact that lately he appears less in the starting team. Suárez has scored 0.55 goals every ninety minutes this season, compared to 0.53 for Cunha, who is the closest to him. The Uruguayan is nearing the end of his contract. In December there were talks to study expanding it and the parties agreed to talk in February, but he has not heard of it again, to the surprise of the striker who, on the other hand, does observe leaks every day in which it is taken for granted that he will not continue, without anyone having communicated anything to him.
Suárez, 35, is in his eighteenth season as a professional. He knows football like nobody else and he simply came expecting a respectful conversation in which the idea of the club with him would be made known to him. In one sense or another, to continue or not. The footballer understands that, after his career and what he has been giving the club in the intense year and a half in which he has worn the red and white, he deserved at least that.
Suárez celebrated Atlético’s birthday today. He is proud of what he has achieved at the club.
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In no way does he understand that he is supposed to go to play in the United States. That was not the idea. Suárez feels fit and his intention was to continue in Europe. If he was not physically and mentally up to the task, he would be the first to step. Several teams have approached him, but he has not advanced waiting for news from Atlético and now he feels the discomfort that it is being planned without him, according to the news that is appearing, without a respectful conversation about his future having taken place. There are only a few weeks left in the competition and Suárez intends to continue giving Simeone and the team the best to achieve the goal of entering the top four, which he understands is the priority at this time as well. Of course, he feels that more than one will be surprised by what he still has to give.
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The red and white parish created in the last hours a hastag (#unaplacaparasuarez) so that it has the recognition of history in the Paseo de Leyendas del Metropolitano. Not in vain, the Uruguayan was key in Atlético’s League title in the 2020-21 season, where he scored 23 goals and made it 2-1 in the alirón match, in Valladolid. The requirement to have a plate is to have played 100 games with Atlético, but the gunman currently has 75 games. If he finishes his journey as a rojiblanco, the Uruguayan will go on to the extensive list of illustrious rojiblancos who, being mattress legends, were left without a plaque as Falcao, Leivinha, Panadero, Marcel Domingo, Vavá, Pacheco, Alemão, Penev, Villa, el “Mono” Burgos, el Poultry breast San Roman…