Suarez pursuit might come back to bite Barca

The process of making Luis Suarez a Barcelona player has been managed very cleverly, but fitting another high-profile attacker into the blaugrana team could well prove much more difficult.

On Wednesday, Carles Puyol, recently retired centre-back and new assistant sporting director, became the latest senior Camp Nou figure to speak in glowing terms of the still Liverpool player.

“Luis Suarez is a great forward,” Puyol said. “I’ve played against him and he’s very difficult to mark. We’ll see what happens.”