Luis Suárez said goodbye to Gremio this Sunday, as he knows. Marking. He did it to give his team the victory against Vasco de Gama on the penultimate matchday of the Brasileirão (1-0), secure a place in the 2024 Copa Libertadores for his team and earn "the right to decide" about his future, according to expressed the forward in his farewell tribute to the Brazilian team.
The former footballer from Liverpool, Barça and Atlético, among other teams, will be a free agent in the transfer market, after terminating his contract with the Porto Alegre team this July until December 2023. The link between the Uruguayan striker and Gremio should have occurred initially until the end of 2024, but the player's chronic knee injury has prevented him from completing his entire stay in Brazil.
"It's my body that speaks and the pain I feel every day is a lot," he said this Sunday about his physical condition. "It's not easy to bet on a 36 or 37-year-old player. It was a very big challenge, very difficult, about which many doubted due to his age, his knee, because he was fat,... After the decision in July my commitment to the club was maximum,” Suárez added.
The 36-year-old player announced this summer at a press conference that the decision to leave Renato Gaúcho's team early is due to the fact that Brazilian football has a very high intensity and pace. In this sense, the player stated last weekend that he needs to rest and be with his family: “Destiny will later tell where he will touch me. I will not rush. We will see what happens later,” he said about his future.
Everything indicates that Luis Suárez could soon join Inter Miami in the MLS, a team that includes Jordi Alba, Leo Messi and Sergio Busquets, former teammates of the Uruguayan striker for six years, during his time at FC Barcelona. The coach of the American team, Tata Martino, does not close the door on the arrival of Gremio's top scorer this season with 15 goals.
"Within our analysis of next season, and the needs we may have, we have an analysis with Luis and an analysis without Luis," said the Miami coach at a press conference in October. "So when the time comes to make Suárez's situation official regarding Inter Miami, we will be prepared to go in the corresponding direction."
Luis Suárez would thus add another team to which he has provided his services throughout his extensive career, if he ended up in the North American team. In this way, it would be the eighth for 'El Pistolero' in his sporting career, after Nacional (Uruguay), Groningen (Holland), Ajax (Holland), Liverpool (England), Barcelona (Spain), Atlético de Madrid (Spain) , and Gremio (Brazil).
