Since a long time, comparisons have always been made by football supporters especially the Barcelona supporters between LUIS SUAREZ and SAMUEL ETO'O on who holds the record of the best 9 shirt of the club. It is of no doubt that the two players are of world class when it comes to scoring goals and their finishing touches in front of the post but doubt are still arising when it comes a final decision on who remains the best 9 between them since the club's history.
LUIS SUAREZ vs SAMUEL ETO'O who deserves to be Barcelona's best 9 ?
From a level point of view it is difficult to determine between LUIS SUAREZ and SAMUEL ETO'O who remains the best 9 shirt in Barcelona's history cause the two players where critical when it comes to scoring goals on their playing styles but statistically speaking it is of no doubt that LUIS SUAREZ deserves the title of the best 9 for the clubs history.
From a brief comparison on their total number of goals per match, individual awards won and titles won with the club it is more clear to determine who best deserves that title.
Samuel Eto'o At Barcelona
SAMUEL ETO'O is of no doubt an iconic player when it comes to speaking about football. He is an African more precisely a Cameroonian by birth and he has also played for the Cameroon national team but coming back to our context we are going to make a brief report his passage at Barcelona and his statistics too.
SAMUEL ETO'O joined the club FC Barcelona in the year 2004 and he played for the club till the year 2009 and his statistitics during his stay at the club goes thus.
- 199 matches played for the club
- 130 goals scored
- Ratio goal per match = 0.65 goal per match
- Collective Titles. when it comes to collective titles, SAMUEL ETO'O has won; 2* Champions league, 3* La liga titles, 1* spain cup, 2* Spain Supercup titles. And this makes a total of 8 titles won collectively by SAMUEL ETO'O.
-Individual Titles. Speaking about indvidual titles, SAMUEL ETO'O may be left in the shadow by his opponent as he counts not many individual titles attributed to him. He finished 6th at the Ballon d'or award 2006, 5th at the Ballon d'or award 2009, highest goal scorer in la Liga 2006, 3rd FIFA best player in 2005, and man of the match award at the champions league final 2006.
Luis Suarez At Barcelona
Now talking about LUIS SUAREZ who is a player from Uruguay and he joined the club in the year 2014 and played till the year 2020 before he was unfortunately sidelined by the present Barcelona coach on his arrival and was forced to move out of the club.
Statistically speaking LUIS SUAREZ made the following achievements during his stay at the club
- 283 matches played
- 198 goals Scored
-Ratio goal per match = 0.69
- Speaking about collective titles won, LUIS SUAREZ won; 1* Champions league title, 1* Club World Cup, 1*Europe Super Cup, 4* La Liga titles, 4* Spain cup winner, 2* Spain Super Cup winner, making a total 13 collective titles for him won with the club.
-Talking of individual titles, LUIS SUAREZ achieved; 5th place Ballon d'or in 2015, 4th place Ballon d'or 2016, 2nd FIFA best player of the year 2015, La Liga highest goal scorer 2016, highest goal scorer at the club world cup 2015 and the best player award of the club world cup in 2016, 3rd la Liga history player to score atleast 40 goals in the tournament.
Based on the above statistics, it is more clear and easy to decide between the two who best deserves to be called Barca's best 9 shirt since the history of the club between the two players.