We imagined Lionel Messi spending his entire career at FC Barcelona, here he is today at PSG. And while the Argentinian is out of contract, his future is talking a lot. Will extend? Will not extend? Messi will have to make a decision. And while this seems to lean in favor of a new contract with PSG, La Pulga obviously had other plans for his career initially, according to Luis Suarez, his great friend.
Teammates at FC Barcelona between 2014 and 2020, Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi have developed a real relationship on and off the pitch. Accomplices, the two men formed with Neymar, one of the most striking lines in modern football. Thus, in remarks reported by TNT Sportsthe Uruguayan claims that with Messithey had a common plan for the future and had discussed moving to the United States.
A discussion from 2018
It was during the 2018/2019 season that the two players had this discussion according to the striker of Gremio : “In 2018/2019, we planned life by withdrawing from Barça to go to the United States for a year”. However, things did not really go as planned, since Luis Suarez left the Barca in 2020 to join Atletico de Madrid with whom he was crowned championSpain. “But football is changing, it is changing a lot”, El Pistolero continued. The American trip therefore did not happen for Lionel Messi and his friend.
An extraordinary relationship
In his words, Luis Suarez also emphasizes the special relationship he has with Lionel Messi. “We have an extraordinary relationship, whether through our children, our wives, and at that time we were projecting ourselves a lot on the future”. Messi left him the Barca for PSG, in what was surely one of the most significant transfers in the history of football so few people expected it. Now expatriated to Brazil, Luis Suarez will he have the opportunity to play again one day with the sevenfold Ballon d’Or ‘ To be continued…
