Watch out MLS! Luis Suarez explains how long it will take to click with ‘best player in the world’ Lionel Messi after reuniting with former Barcelona team-mates at Inter Miami

It has been three-and-a-half years since the pair last played together at Barcelona, with the fearsome ‘MSN’ partnership broken up at Camp Nou as Neymar departed for Paris Saint-Germain in 2017 and Suarez was freed to join Atletico Madrid in 2020.

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Messi would then head to France in 2021, before making his way to America as a free agent in the summer of 2023. The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner has since been joined in Florida by ex-Blaugrana team-mates Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba.

Suarez now forms part of that reunion on a one-year deal and has said of linking up with familiar faces and how quickly they can deliver on expectations: “They are not just friends; they are players who prove in games [why] they are very well known on a global level. The best player in the world is there and that generates great expectation. After being with them for many years, having achieved many things together, it makes us know each other well. We don’t need much time to understand each other on the pitch. I’m coming from the same mentality that they had, of wanting to help, and have the same hope and desire as all Inter Miami fans to win another title.”

Messi inspired Inter Miami to Leagues Cup glory within weeks of his arrival in the United States – making him the most decorated player of all-time – and the iconic Argentine has not shied away from the fact that he wants to compete for every piece of silverware available to him in 2024.