Luis Suárez

In September 2020 Barcelona decided they no longer needed Luis Suárez. The Uruguayan, one of the great strikers of his generation, joined Atlético, and within a season he had made Barcelona regret it.

The title in 2020–21

Suárez scored 21 league goals in his first season, many of them decisive. In the closing weeks, with Atlético's lead shrinking, he scored a late winner at home to Osasuna and then, on the final day at Valladolid, the goal that won the league after Ángel Correa had equalised. The image of Suárez in tears, on the phone to his family after the final whistle, is one of the most memorable of that title.

Legacy

He stayed for one more season and left in 2022 to return to Nacional in Uruguay. His stay was short, but no signing of the Simeone era had a more immediate impact: two seasons, a league title and goals that every supporter remembers.