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Josep Maria Bartomeu beside Enrique Cerezo, president of the Athletic of Madrid

ON BARTOMEU And THE BARCELONA

Atlético de Madrid speaks for the 'Luis Suárez case'

Published:24/09/2020 - 22:16h

Updated:25/09/2020 - 00:01h

Enrique Cerezo, president of the Athletic of Madrid, spoke on the FC Barcelona and Josep Maria Bartomeu after the signing of Luis Suárez

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This same week, the FC Barcelona and the Athletic of Madrid have closed an agreement for the traspaso of Luis Suárez, that will arrive to the Metropolitan without costs of traspaso but with possible payments by variables. Enrique Cerezo, president of the club 'colchonero', has gone through the microphones of the program Tot Coast, of Catalonia Ràdio, to speak of the incorporation of the Uruguayan forward and of the relations with the Barcelona entity.

About the signing of Luis Suárez, the maximum mandator rojiblanco manifested that it is an incorporation of big level that has to elevate the competitiveness of the staff of Diego Pablo Simeone. "In the Athletic of Madrid always have happiness, are trying to do a big team, comes a big player, one of the big goleadores of Europe and are loved to have it with us", commented.

"The institutional relations with the FC Barcelona are fantastic"

In fact, Enrique Cerezo desveló that the Athletic of Madrid already wanted to fichar to Luis Suárez several seasons backwards. "Already we try it fichar do a lot of years when it was in the Liverpool but with our economic conditions could not do it and now has been able to do. Luis Suárez has a lot of admirers, between them our trainer, but could not be possible then and by the circumstances of the life has arrived now", said.

Enrique Cerezo also spoke about the payment of the traspaso of Luis Suárez, that will go closely tied to the sportive attainments since the total total will be exclusively by means of variables. "Ojalá Go out well for the two, we assume some conditions, but the players are people and sometimes work in a club and in another no, the life is as it is, anybody is exento of what can happen", manifested.

It defends to Josep Maria Bartomeu

On the other hand, in spite of taut cases like the one of Antoine Griezmann, Enrique Cerezo ensured that the institutional relations with the FC Barcelona are good. "The world of the businesses always is complicated, but the institutional relations with the FC Barcelona are fantastic, for us is a big club and has had, has and will have big directors", explained.

Besides, the president of the Athletic of Madrid defended with firmness to his homologous in the FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu. "It is a big president and in the future will be considered like one of the big presidents of the FC Barcelona. It is a grandísima person, say it like fellow, and the history will give him the reason of the things that has done in the club", sentenced.

The three better goals of Suárez to the Athletic