Luis Suárez con el FC Barcelona en un duelo contra el Real Madrid

MADRID WAS ABOUT TO SELL BENZEMA TO SIGN HIM

Luis Suárez makes it clear why he preferred to sign for Barça instead of Real Madrid

Published:17/02/2024 - 18:52h

Updated:18/02/2024 - 02:30h

Luis Suárez is already a historic name at FC Barcelona. However, he was extremely close to becoming a Real Madrid player, as he explained in a recent interview, in which he also revealed the reasons why his transfer to the White House did not materialize

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Speak of Luis Suárez is to mention to one of the more intimidating and effective forwards that has had the FC Barcelona in the last years. The charrúa, in six seasons of action with the elastic Barcelona, added the stood out figure of 195 annotations in a total 283 commitments, turning into one of the goleadores historical of the Barcelona club. In concrete, occupies the third place of this line behind Leo Messi, with 672 targets, and César Rodríguez, with 226.

Nevertheless, the history of the Uruguayan in the Spanish football was very near to be totally different. The native of Jump, in an amena interview in the program 'The Table', mentioned between so many subjects, the opportunity that was about to fichar by the Real Madrid, his second 'victim' preferred and to which annotated him 12 so many in 19 duels.

The history behind the "no" of Luis Suárez to the Real Madrid

The current '9' of the Inter Miami began explaining the near that was to concretise his traspaso to the pertinent White House of the Liverpool, where already stood out like a goleador of elite. "Before the World-wide of 2014, the Real Madrid wanted to ficharme and everything went by good way... They were thinking in selling to Benzema to the Arsenal, already was all fact", began saying.

However, 'The Gunman' finished revealing the reason whereby desisted of fichar by the merengues and linked with the Catalan cast. "When it began the World-wide, the Barça went in in scene and, obviously, I preferred to the Barça. With the situation of the bite, the interest of the Madrid diminished, whereas the Barça showed more interested... At the end, had the two options and chose to the Barça because it was my dream", concluded.

The FC Barcelona finished remaining with a goleador 'top'

Finally, the FC Barcelona finished doing with the services of the centrodelantero charrúa by a total of 81 million euros. This investment was definitively rewarded in the time, since, in addition to the big quantity of so many converted, 'Struggle' contributed a loable quantity of 113 assistances, a little usual number for a '9', and that up to now situates it like the better chamber assistant in the history of the Barça, only by behind Leo Messi (303), Xavi Hernández (185) and Andrés Iniesta (136).

But this is not everything, the Uruguayan would stand out like one of the key names of the designated 'MSN', the trident that conformed with Leo Messi and Neymar Júnior, being fundamental to achieve, between other things, the last Champions League that the Barça won in his recent history (2015). Besides that, like culé, Luis Suárez laureó with other 12 titles: 1 World-wide of Clubs, 4 Leagues, 1 Supercopa of Europe, 4 Glasses of Rey and 2 Supercopas of Spain.

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