We are really blown away by Messi and Suarez. Barca’s elite is gradually being transformed by Inter Miami.
After the Major League Soccer team owned by Beckham opened for business in 2020, the Miami-based team has had a difficult campaign. They’ve struggled to make an impression on MLS and push their way to the top of their local and continental championships, despite being the greatest club in the world to play football in pink home uniforms.
Adjustments were required. When they managed to recruit Lionel Messi in 2023, a club that had always failed to leave a mark, they stunned the whole world.
I think it was probably for the best that we were not allowed to witness the parallel universe in which Phil Neville was managing Messi. Though why limit yourself to just one Barcelona icon when the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner is already in the books at Inter Miami?
Inter Miami changed their trajectory in an attempt to ultimately get a return on their MLS investment. They’ve subsequently utilized Messi to basically replicate the Barcelona core that won the treble in 2014โ15 by taking advantage of a gap in the market and buying Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets to satisfy the Argentine.
Then everything changed all of a sudden. The three players’ teammates started to resemble Barcelona players, and Miami moved from being the laughingstocks of the league to being able to play gorgeous one- and two-touch football.
However, attempting to transform Robbie Robinson into Neymar and appointing Gerardo Martino as manager proved to be insufficient. Something remained to be added.Luis Suarez was that component, and he continued to be very busy playing for Gremio and Atletico Madrid until late 2023, when he made the decision that it was time to reunite the group.
Years after the band’s peak, getting them back together for a reunion seldom works out. As for The Stone Roses, who broke up as soon as they got back together after a terrible single and some expensive shows, and when Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United, things were never going to work out. The Hardy Boyz are finding it difficult to live up to their former, extreme glory.
However, it seems that Miami’s water contains something. Following their reunion, Messi, Busquets, and Alba have been developing into an even more formidable force. They’re also at their best now that they’ve included Suarez once more.
It was evident from Suarez’s Inter Miami friendly debut with his former teammates that magic never really fades, as the quartet executed a stretch of attacking play so good it would make you cry. The friendly was played before of the 2024 MLS season.
There are those who never lose it. Alba fires a pass into Suarez, who finds Busquets, demonstrating a link that goes beyond simple humans. Then he displays his own psychic link with Messi, who unexpectedly doesn’t overplay a great build-up play.
We were denied an almost flawless goal right off the Barcelona practice field by a very clever double stop.It happened as if by clock. One may mistakenly believe they were witnessing La Blaugrana dominate the Champions League if that club were wearing a red and blue uniform.
Though it may not be the most long-term strategy for developing a football team in its infancy, Beckham and his co-owners’ outrageous wealth makes it the most enjoyable approach to go about things. They signed a number of former Barcelona players who were nearing the end of their careers.
We have high hopes for Inter Miami’s prospects of reaching the finals and winning the MLS Cup, regardless of how they could have done it, assuming Suarez keeps getting along with his old friends as he does once the season begins.