Luis Suárez, the rejected idol

The emotional farewell to Luis Suárez, with the Metropolitan delivered to the necessary scorer who led to the 2021 league title, has given way to a jilted idol.

In an interview granted to Cadena Ser's

, the Uruguayan striker showed his disenchantment with the club, with the sports director, the Italian Andrea Berta, and with Diego Pablo Simeone.

In his statements, his uneasiness is sensed by how he was notified that he was not following.

Suárez was aware of the decision, but he missed a meeting in which his non-continuity had been formally transmitted to him.

“Rafa Alique (club communication director) told me the day before I was fired.

He told me that they were going to give me a farewell.

I didn't know anything.

I am 35 years old, I sensed something and I was already thinking about my future.

In November we met with the club, we agreed to talk in February and Alique told me the day before the tribute.

"My answer was: well, someone at the club told me something," according to Suárez in La Ser.

The transition from essential to substitute has been tough for Suarez.

In his first season as a rojiblanco, he found a coach willing to make the team take a step forward and play closer to the area to take advantage of his punch.

In the second, he first found that the arrival of Griezmamm and Cunha forced Simeone to delicately manage the newcomers, Correa, João Félix and himself.

“The squad was more competitive with the signings.

In the first games, the strikers had a talk with Simeone, he had many options and we didn't finish gaining confidence.

He also passed behind.

And that makes you think that you are doing something wrong… There is an uncertainty, a lack of confidence, ”he assured in the aforementioned interview when asked about the difference between the Atlético that was champion and the one this season.

Suárez was also the big loser when after the first third of the course, the defensive weakness that the team exhibited led the Argentine coach to return to a more withdrawn version of the team.

With seven goals in the first games, the charrúa began to be bench meat.

Given Simeone's approaches, different from those of the previous campaign, the debate arose as to whether Cunha's option was not better to play on the counterattack.

Suárez did not find the support of the hard nucleus

In public, El Cholo never assured, when asked, that Suárez, at 35 years old and with a badly damaged knee, was not useful for stretching the team.

However, the chain of substitutions implied that Suárez was no longer essential.

Also, Simeone's refusal to answer if he wanted his continuity.

“It's a trick question, we lived it years ago with Fernando [Torres] and I'm not going to enter.

I spoke two months ago with Luis and with the club and they know what I think”, the Argentine coach limited himself to answering.

Some gestures in the changes and suspicions that he was leading a revolt in the locker room for the coach to change the style were his sentence.

He only followed De Paul.

Suárez did not find support in the hard core of the dugout and ran into the reality that others have found.

Simeone marks the path and few dare to discuss it because of the ascendancy he has among the fans.

That talk between the two made things clear.

Suárez understood that if he had any chance of continuing, he had to score goals when he had to play and not create problems.

Neither the club nor Simeone wanted another Diego Costa case.

A relationship of mutual respect was then established in which his future in the entity was relayed by his substitutions.

Suárez had known for months that he was not going to continue, but none of the three legs on which sports planning is based, the owner, the coach and the sports director formally communicated it to him.

And that is what he has missed, that someone told him to his face that his physique is no longer enough to play counterattack and that his salary is very high.

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