January 2024 was the window when finally all the guy ropes holding back Premier League spending snapped taut and held firm, slowing a market that had grown to astonishing proportions one year earlier. As the 11pm deadline approached, just £79 million had been spent by the 20 clubs in the richest league in the world, and the most on any single deal by Tottenham Hotspur on the Romanian Radu Dragusin, a defender who will not even go immediately into their first XI.
Lionel Messi was sipping on a drink at one end, Luis Suárez next to him, then Sergio Busquets, then Jordi Alba on the other end. This was Inter Miami on Saturday. It's official: Messi, Busquets, Alba and Suárez are together again, this time in Major League Soccer.
The long-awaited reunion of Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi is now a reality, after the Uruguayan striker signed with Inter Miami on Friday for the 2024 season. Suárez and Messi spent six seasons together at Barcelona, winning four Spanish league titles and nine other trophies — including a Champions League title — in that span. Suárez is coming off a season where he was best player and best striker in the Brazilian league with Gremio.
Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez, a former teammate of Lionel Messi at Barcelona, won the golden ball Thursday as the player of the season in the Brazilian league. The 37-year-old Suárez, who played with Messi in Spain after several seasons at Liverpool and Ajax, scored 17 goals for Brazilian league runner-up Gremio. Suárez scored two goals on the final day of the season in a 3-2 victory over Fluminense at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.