Atletico’s Suarez says Barca exit remains unexplained

TIL Desk Sports/ Atletico Madrid forward Luis Suarez says he has still not been offered an explanation as to why Barcelona allowed him to leave last September. One of new Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman’s first acts in charge at the Camp Nou was to tell Suarez he was surplus to requirements.

The Uruguayan says that the decision, and the way it was communicated, were not conducted in the way he would have liked. “When Barca told me I wasn’t in their plans it was a tough one to take,” he told. “I wasn’t expecting it, they were tough times, especially in the way it happened. Koeman called me and told me I wasn’t in his plans.

“The decision to let me leave was something that not only (Lionel) Messi didn’t understand, but many Barcelona fans didn’t, either. “Barca told me not to go to training, but I told them that for as long as I had a contract, I’d be going. The club didn’t give me any explanation, they just said it was up to the manager.”