Luis Suarez is reportedly considering retiring from football due to a persistent knee injury at Gremio.
Claims in Brazil have suggested the former Liverpool striker is weighing up announcing his official retirement due to the long-standing issue troubling him in Porto Alegre.
GZH Esportes has reported that Suarez has already communicated his decision to Gremio's hierarchy as he prepares to call time on a decorated career at the age of 36.
Suarez still has a year to run on the contract he signed back in December but the report says "a meeting between the athlete and the club's management will seal the situation in the coming days" as the former Reds hero looks to end a playing career that started back in 2005 at Uruguayan side Nacional.
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The Uruguay international scored 11 goals in 25 appearances for Gremio after joining them following the World Cup in Qatar back in December but could now be walking away for good.
It will be his time with Liverpool and then Barcelona that Suarez will be best remembered for if he does retire. The South American joined the Reds in a £22.7m deal in January 2011 from Ajax and went on to establish himself as one of the most purely gifted players of all time at Anfield.
Suarez registered 82 goals in 133 appearances for Liverpool that included 31 in the 2013/14 campaign as Brendan Rodgers's side came within a whisker of ending a 24-year wait for a league championship. He also won a League Cup in 2012 as the Reds beat Cardiff City in the final.
After agitating for a 2013 move away from Anfield only to be persuaded to stay and turn in that 31-goal campaign, Suarez moved to Barcelona in the summer of 2014 in a £75m deal before going on to enjoy further success at Camp Nou.
The former Ajax frontman won four La Liga titles, four Copa del Reys and the 2015 Champions League when Barca beat Juventus 3-1 to seal a treble in his first season alongside Lionel Messi and Neymar.
A two-year spell with Atletico Madrid helped them to a La Liga title in 2021 before he returned to Uruguay to re-join Nacional last year prior to his current stint at Gremio.
For all the plaudits for his brilliance on the pitch, however, Suarez's career has been equally marked by a string of controversial incidents wherever he has been.
In 2010 he was banned for seven games for biting Otman Bakkal while playing for Ajax before receiving a 10-match suspension for a similar offence on Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic during a Premier League fixture at Anfield in April 2013.
At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Suarez became embroiled in his third biting row when sinking his teeth in the shoulder of Italy's Giorgio Chiellini in Uruguay's final group game of the tournament. The then Reds forward was sent home in disgrace and sold to Barcelona shortly after.
Suarez was also given a £40,000 fine and banned for eight matches after being found guilty of racially abusing Patrice Evra during a 1-1 draw with Manchester United in October 2011.
