Juventus transfer market: Suárez also closed in 2011, then …

It is not the first time that a convict passport has come between Suárez and the Lady. And it is not the first time that the Pistolero fills the dreams of Juve with Edin Dzeko. The Uruguayan and Bosnian have long been the focus of Fabio Paratici: these days the head of the Juventus sports area will rethink the 2010-11 season, when he treated them both. Close to Luis, very close to Edin, but in both cases the famous … passport was missing.

First cry

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To be honest, the first cry of the (mutual) feeling is earlier. Juve and Suárez smell each other before the 2010 World Cup: in February, in an Ajax-Juve of the Europa League, poor Legrottaglie and Zebina come out with a headache from the thousand Uruguayan shots. In the end, Juve won with a double Amauri but Suarez’s performance stole the hearts of the coaches of the time. A slow courtship begins through Daniel Fonseca, former Juventus agent of the early Pistolero. Fonseca, who has already brought Martín Cáceres to Turin, often talks with the then-Alessio Secco about Luis the terrible. Then, in 2010, Andrea Agnelli arrived at the company like a hurricane and everything changed: the management led by Beppe Marotta, with the young Fabio Paratici at his side, quickly got to the point. To the point that in that summer Juve mortgaged the 24-year-old gunman, married to an Italian but without the slightest idea of ​​taking away his wife’s citizenship. There is an agreement in the contract, but everything falls apart due to a decision with an old flavor, the result of the blue disaster of the World Cup: the reduction of the number of non-EU members who can register from two to one.

Liverpool

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It was decided to talk about it again later, perhaps to close the following summer, but already in January here is the counterattack: the Pistolero takes it to Liverpool, for 26.5 million euros, after having won double the sale of Torres. But there is another detail that makes January 2011 seem so similar to this strange August 2020: Edin Dzeko, the Wolfsburg bomber, is closer than ever to donning the black and white jersey. A pre-contract is reached, but the deal disappears due to the usual story: there is no place as a non-EU citizen. Time passes and the Englishman Suárez, with a new agent with a famous surname (Pere Guardiola, Pep’s brother), seems to be haunted by demons. Scoring goals in groups, but growing the bad boy’s resume. Two are the most famous bites: in 2010 he bites Bakkal from PSV, in 2013 he presses the canines on the arm of Ivanovic from Chelsea. But the most serious episode is that of 2011: racist insults to Patrice Evra, another who would become an idol in Turin. The uproar does not stop after months and seems to distance the gunman from the Premier. So the bianconeri tactically send emissaries to Liverpool to re-negotiate, also because the extra-community Serie A seats have returned two in the meantime. A little because of the cost and a little because of Luis’s torments, the signature does not arrive. It seems like the end of the novel, but there is a surprise appendix: it is being written now, with the usual passport to enrich the mystery.