BARCELONA’S URUGUAY FORWARD Luis Suarez was on Wednesday named on a three-man shortlist for UEFA’s Best Player in Europe award for 2014/15.
The 28-year-old joins perennial top player nominees Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Suarez’s Barca teammate Messi won the inaugural UEFA Best Player in Europe award in 2011 while Real Madrid’s Ronaldo is the current holder.
Messi is the big favourite as Barcelona won the treble of Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey last season, while he helped Argentina reach the Copa America final.
The award will be handed out in Monaco on 27 August during the draw for the group stages of the Champions League.
Behind the top three, Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was fourth, Barca’s Brazil forward Neymar fifth and Eden Hazard of Chelsea sixth.
A player, no matter how good he is, calling the shots at a club and having more power than the manager is never a good thing.
On one hand Messi gets blamed for wanting to play every game, and on the other, Sterling gets blamed for wanting to take a rest. Seems like footballers can’t win these days.
Overpaid selfish git. Should concentrate on paying his fair share of taxes.
Quite frankly, although there a million miles between me and him as footballers and as people of interest, I don’t like what he is doing, trying to tell the coaches he wants to play every game and to never be left on the bench, no questions asked. While it makes sense because they can’t buy players at the moments, shouldn’t he stop and think for a second that while he’s undoubtedly the talisman, he needs to understand the fairness in letting teammates get a chance when they’re given an opportunity to fill his role?
Probably one of the greatest players there has ever been and arguably the best of his generation but NO player is bigger than the team.After all football is a team sport and NOT an individual sport.Players have their role to play and managers have their role to manage,end of story.
Looks like a smear campaign against the little magician!! To put this just beside an article about Ronaldos petulance is a nonsense!
Messi needs to talk to Sterling
People we must agree that messi has contributed to the barca we so much admire to day while we might see this as an act of disrespect . Tha turth still remains that messi should be entitled to some privliages. You know what they say you never know what u have untill u lose it. I tell u if barca is not careful that will be her case.