Sevilla forward tells Sid Lowe how much he enjoyed his time at Liverpool and of his first sight Martin Ødegaard, part of the Arsenal side he will face in the Champions League
Suso says last season was ‘all super strange’ but it ended with Sevilla winning the Europa League and qualifying for the Champions League.Suso says last season was ‘all super strange’ but it ended with Sevilla winning the Europa League and qualifying for the Champions League.
“It was a period where young players in Spain weren’t getting opportunities, whereas in England they played the Carling Cup, the FA Cup. As a project and a culture, it attracted me more. Opportunities in Spain were always there; maybe the chance to join Liverpool was only going to be once in a lifetime. I had always lived at home with my parents and going somewhere so far away, so different to Cádiz, was a big change.
“I could understand Gerrard better but Carragher was incredible. But then, put an English kid in Cádiz with my mates and it would be the same. “It was another culture. The first few days, they would call me down for dinner at 7pm. I’m there with the laptop on the table because I don’t understand anything and couldn’t say anything. I said: ‘I can’t eat at 7pm. Leave me some and I’ll heat it up later,’” Suso says, laughing.
Suso would have liked the chance to play under Jürgen Klopp, left with a feeling of what might have been, but the move worked out. “Milan were a bit adrift but when Montella came, it changed. I had a year on loan and was contemplating another but he told me I would be important. He’s been one of the most significant coaches in my career.”
“Sevilla was close to home, competing with the best. I arrived in January and we won the Europa League six months later.”, knocking out United en route. In the semi-final. Suso again scored – a belter against Juventus, his second family in Seville to see it. The run, the whole season, still defies rational analysis, a year of crisis, near relegation and three managerial spells somehow ending in triumph.
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