{"id":164621,"date":"2025-09-23T23:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164621\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T23:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:49:07","slug":"before-the-football-leaves-you-luis-suarez-set-to-return-from-mls-suspension-but-questions-about-his-inter-miami-future-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164621\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Before the football leaves you’ – Luis Suarez set to return from MLS suspension, but questions about his Inter Miami future linger"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Uruguayan great’s production has declined, he will have a tough decision to make when his contract expires in November<\/p>\n

There is a TV segment in which Jamie Carragher is outlining the faults of Casemiro at Manchester United. The former Liverpool center back offers his analysis, picks at the Brazilian’s faults, and then ends it with a phrase that has since become part of soccer canon:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Leave the football before the football leaves you. The football has left him, at this level.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carragher wasn’t wrong about Casemiro<\/a>. And his words have since become prophetic elsewhere. Numerous others, in the Premier League and across the world, have left the game gracefully, stepped away at the right moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Inter Miami’s Luis Suarez is right in that danger zone. The Uruguayan has seen his form dip this season, and in a mixture of both controversy and failing knees, the once great South American is truly starting to show his age. There was, perhaps a year ago, a certain charm to Suarez’s aging legs. He was squeezing every last ounce of footballing juice out of those feet – which still have a little magic in them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But as he returns from a suspension stemming from a silly incident following the Leagues Cup fina<\/a>l, his future remains something of a question. The football might be leaving Suarez, and with the season winding down, his presence for Inter Miami – at least in the long term – is up for debate.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Uruguayan great’s production has declined, he will have a tough decision to make when his contract…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[13449,64,63,1379,596,108382,108383,15350,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-164621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-features","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-inter-miami-cf","14":"tag-l-suarez","15":"tag-major-league-soccer","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}