Officially ... Luis Suarez in Atletico Madrid for 6 million euros

Atletico Madrid announced late Wednesday the contract with Uruguay striker and Barcelona soccer team Luis Suarez.

Barcelona said Atlético had agreed to pay the € 6 million deal to Suárez in the form of incentives only.

Yesterday, Suarez left Barcelona training in tears after bidding farewell to his team-mates.

The new Dutch coach Ronald Koeman had told him when he took over the task in the middle of last month, succeeding Kiki Setien, who was dismissed from his post due to poor results and a historic loss to Bayern Munich 2-8 in the Champions League quarter-finals, that he was not included in his plans for the new season.

Suarez moved to Barcelona in 2014 from Liverpool, where he won 13 titles in Catalonia, including the European Champions League (2015) and the domestic league title four times in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019.

Suárez left Barcelona, ​​the third-highest goal scorer in his history with 198 goals, behind Cesar Rodrigues (232) and Argentine striker Lionel Messi (634).

Suarez’s move to the second pole of the capital came after his failure to join the Italian Juventus ranks.

Coman announced a few days after his appointment as coach of the Catalan club that he would not depend in the 2020-2021 season on Suarez, Chilean Arturo Vidal, who had recently moved to Inter Milan, and Ivan Rakicch, who returned to his former club Sevilla, and French defender Samuel Umtiti.

Coman has already linked saying that Suarez did not participate in his three preparatory matches for Barcelona for the new season, before the Uruguayan went into the last farewell quota for one of the most prominent attackers in the history of the Catalan club.

On Monday, the newspaper "Marca" reported on the Catalan radio "RAK1" information that "Luis Suarez is no longer a player in Barcelona", and that the Uruguayan striker, whose contract with his team extends until June 2021, has decided to "give up part of his salary for the next season in exchange for leaving as a player." free".

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