Too Much Tapas? Barcelona’s Luis Suarez looks way overweight, just a month before El Clasico…. [Pictures]

Luis Suarez scored a quality brace for Barcelona B on Wednesday against Indonesia U19s, which sounds great, but the pictures from the game tell a different story.

As the game was only broadcast on Catalan TV, behind closed doors, most people only saw low quality videos and streams, so couldn’t get a very close look at Suarez.

Close up, it’s clear that the Uruguayan is badly out of shape, around 8-10 kilos overweight by the looks of it.

He’s gained fat in his torso, on his chest, and most strikingly in his face; at peak fitness as the above picture at Liverpool shows, Suarez has a lean, almost gaunt jaw line, whereas his cheeks look puffy right now.

Of course, for Suarez to be a bit out of shape is understandable: though he’s in full training with the first team, there’s simply no way you can substitute missing 2 high-octane games per week, and at a mental level, it’s very hard to get the adrenalin to kick in without the excitement of competitive games.

Suarez has said his World Cup ban left him depressed, and clearly sapped a lot of his energy to train at 100%.

Unless Luisito ups his training intensity big time, it’s hard to see how he can start El Clasico against Real Madrid in a month’s time…in fact it’s probably out of the question, and once available again, it could then take another several weeks to bring him gradually back up to speed.