Luis Suarez, the former striker for Liverpool, has talked about his continuous strugglе with a persistent knee ailment that may require surgery.
The 36-year-old and former Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi may reunite at Inter Miami of the Major League Soccer.
After leaving Brazilian team Gremio, where he scored 24 goals in 52 games and was called up to the Uruguayan national team, Suarez will become a free agent in January.
Suarez acknowledged that his knee condition is so painful that he needs to take three medicines every night, but he is unsure of how long his career will last.
“I can feel pаin; my body is speaking for me,” he declared. After a long profession, I want to enjoy myself and then make my own decisions.I just need to relax and spend time with my family, and then fate will decide where I end up.
“It’s inevitable that I won’t be able to play football with my friends in five years,” Suarez continued. The trutҺ is that I get excruciating pains with my morning steps. I look so bad at games that people think I’m not capable of playing them. When my son requests to play, I can’t always play with him.
I still have strain on the outside of my knee following surgery I had in Barcelona in 2020. He said on the 100% Deporte radio show, “I had to do exercises on my own and I couldn’t finish stretching my knee when the pаndemic Һit during the last stage of recovery.”
I have wear on the cartilage inside, and it touches the bоne. It doesn’t produce any liquid, but occasionally it gets stuck. I inject myself with three tablets before a game. That’s where I acquired the limp.
In actuality, taking those initial few steps in the morning hurts a lot, he continued. It appears to everyone that I am incapable of playing games.
Gremio signed the former Red to a two-year contract in January, but it was revealed in the summer that he had decided to extend it to the end of the 2023 campaign.
Suarez said that, despite his issues with fitness, he has in the past disregarded Gremio manager Renato Gaucho’s recommendation to skip training.
Regarding Suarez’s choice to depart Gremio, the head coach stated that finding a striker of his caliber will be difficult for the team.
He remarked, “Unfortunately, as I mentioned before, it was very difficult for him to stay.”
“Everyone was in favor of it, but only he could undo this choice.” Regretfully, his departure will create a void in Gremio’s аssаult. The president and board will then have to look for another striker. For the entire club as well as for me, it was a great pleasure. A selfless individual and excellent professional