Luis Suarez has psychological problems… he counts on his fingers and doesn't

know how to add up, claims Barcelona striker's former agent Daniel Fonseca

Daniel Fonseca has launched a scathing attack on Uruguayan Luis Suarez
Suarez claims that his former agent owes him money from a 2006 transfer
But Fonseca has now replied: 'He is lying, he is a kid with mental issues'

Luis Suarez's former agent, Daniel Fonseca, has launched an astonishing attack on the Barcelona star after Suarez recently claimed that Fonseca owed him money from his transfer to Groningen from Nacional in 2006.

Speaking to Monte Carlo TV on Wednesday evening, Suarez claimed that Fonseca owed him 20 per cent of the deal which first brought him to Europe, after the Eredivisie outfit paid Nacional around €800,000 (£646,740) for the striker.

However, former Uruguay international Fonseca has emphatically rubbished those claims by insisting: 'He is lying, he is a kid with mental issues.'

Striker Luis Suarez gestures during Barcelona's Champions League game with Atletico Madrid on Tuesday

The Uruguayan enjoys his goal against Atletico at the Nou Camp during the Champions League quarter-final

During his interview, Suarez repeated claims that Fonseca made off with $200,000 (£141,980) of his money after the Groningen move, saying, 'That was one of the disappointments I had with Daniel,' before adding, 'He also told me I was going to make €30,000 a month, and I made €10,000.'

The 29-year-old continued: 'It still annoys me because as a former player, to do that with players who have come up from nothing, who have suffered, they play their part as well.'

Suarez also mentioned that Fonseca specifically told him that he had to reject the 20 per cent cut and that he would be compensated later, when another transfer took place, something that allegedly never happenedHowever, Fonseca, who featured for Napoli, Roma and Juventus during his own storied career, sensationally responded on Montevideo-based Radio 1010 AM: 'He is lying, he is a kid with mental issues, everybody knows that.

'He still sees a psychologist but I don't think it's doing any good. He needs to change psychologist or go to a psychiatrist. He counts on his fingers, the kid doesn't know how to add up.'

Before Suarez's interview turned vitriolic, the former Liverpool talisman admitted that he was very grateful to Fonseca - who also began his playing career at Nacional - for his help during the early years of his footballing life.

Suarez's former agent, Daniel Fonseca (left), playing for Juventus against Olympiacos in March 1999

Uruguay's Fonseca (left) tries to get the better of England's Barry Venison at Wembley in March 1995

'When I was 15 he paid for my first trip to Spain [to visit a girlfriend],' Suarez said. 'He used to help out with a bit of money, giving my family a bit every month. I'm very grateful because of the needs we had as a family. Sometimes he'd give me football boots, he treated us very well.'

However, the talk of money owed did not sit well with Fonseca, who went on to tell a very personal story about Suarez, before calling him a 'scoundrel': 'The whole thing started because I had to tell the kid a very uncomfortable truth when he was playing for the junior national team.

'Three of his team-mates gave me a call and said they were having a tough time with Luis. I had to say something very uncomfortable to the kid, but until the day I die I won't say what it was.

Suarez (left) challenges Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak (right) during Barca's 1-1 first leg home match

'He didn't take it, it didn't go down well at all. The coward should tell the truth and not try to smear me by saying I owe him 200,000 euros.

'Scoundrel! If he had any courage he'd say what I had to say to him. That's the real motive why this disgraceful person doesn't have the courage to talk and has been hiding this for six years,' Fonseca finished.

Suarez will now look to put the war of words behind him as his high-flying Barcelona team face Real Sociedad at the Anoeta Stadium in La Liga on Saturday.

IRAN.- Tear up the Iran nuclear deal? Then what?

Tear up the Iran nuclear deal? Then what?

Donald Trump says he'd tear up the "disastrous" nuclear deal with Iran and "renegotiate." Ted Cruz vowed he would "rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal" on his first day in office.

But we haven't heard a compelling answer to the crucial follow-up query: Then what?

Flashback to last April: The U.S. and its partners reached a nuclear deal with Iran. In January, the deal fully kicked in.

This page backed that accord as the best of bad options. We also said that the deal won't be judged on whether Tehran drops its long-running Great Satan campaign against the U.S. and cooperates on the diplomatic front. The nuclear deal begins and ends with one goal: Stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon.

If it works, it's a grand bargain. If it doesn't, it's a grand boondoggle.

So far, Iran has completed several key steps in scaling back its nuclear program. It has shipped low-enriched uranium out of the country and dismantled thousands of centrifuges.

So, yes, Tehran has followed "the letter of the agreement," President Barack Obama said last week. "But the spirit of the agreement involves Iran also sending signals to the world community and businesses that it is not going to be engaging in a range of provocative actions that are going to scare businesses off. When they launch ballistic missiles with slogans calling for the destruction of Israel, that makes businesses nervous."

Tehran shows no sign of ending its belligerence, of showing the world it values global acceptance. Instead, it continues to conduct ballistic missile tests that violate a United Nations ban. It continues to fund international terror groups. One more spot-on verdict: "Sadly, behind all the talk of change, the Iran we have long known — hostile, expansionist, violent — is alive and well, and as dangerous as ever," writes Yousef Al Otaiba, ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the U.S., in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed.

Critics may argue that is sufficient grounds to tear up the nuclear deal and start over. But why would Iranians trust a president who abandons a deal negotiated by his or her predecessor without strong evidence that Tehran had cheated?

What's more, it's too late to seriously hurt Iran by nixing the deal. Tehran has already reaped billions in benefits — an argument for not agreeing to the deal in the first place but a moot argument now.

If Donald the Dealmaker wanted to negotiate one of those better deals he's always promising, what new incentives could he offer the Iranians? How would he convince the other nations that signed onto the pact — France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, the European Union and China — to follow his lead?

If the U.S. walks away, Iran would be free to toss out inspectors, ramp up its nuclear program, and dare the world to stop it. That could require military force.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has complained that the U.S. isn't fulfilling its end of the deal. He accuses the U.S. of indirectly thwarting some foreign trade deals. Tehran wants the Obama administration to help make Tehran's financial dealings with foreign companies and banks easier by allowing transactions involving dollars in certain circumstances.

Here's why that is key: U.S. dollars tend to be the currency of choice in financial transactions around the globe. Many businesses, particularly in the oil industry, rely on being able to freely convert local currencies to and from dollars. So the White House reportedly is considering easing financial rules to essentially allow Iran and its foreign trading partners to do business using dollars, provided those transactions don't occur inside the U.S. financial system.

That ease of money movement would be a huge financial boon to Iran and to its terrorist proxies around the world.

But that's controversial. Some congressional critics accuse the White House of reaching beyond the nuclear deal's terms to mollify the mullahs. On Wednesday, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida introduced a bill that would prevent Iran from gaining access to transactions in U.S. dollars outside the U.S. financial system. That would be a smart move, in part because Iran hasn't yet earned any favors from Washington.

The more ground Obama cedes to the mullahs, the weaker the argument for keeping the nuclear deal intact becomes. Why so?

The next president will have to decide what, if anything, to do about the Iran nuclear deal. A firm U.S. posture, rather than endless "sweeteners" to keep Tehran from walking away, has the best chance of keeping Iran's nuclear program in check.

Pablo Iglesias: “No quiero que Cataluña se vaya, pero la casta les ha maltratado”

Resultado de imagen de Pablo Iglesias (Estelada)

Pablo Iglesias: “No quiero que Cataluña se vaya, pero la casta les ha maltratado”

Iglesias, secretario general de Podemos ha mantenido este viernes, se ha ofrecido incondicionalmente al presidente de la Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, para celebrar un referéndum sobre el futuro político de Cataluña: "Lo hemos defendido siempre y vamos a seguir haciéndolo".

El cómic sobre Andreu Nin

Tras una reunión de casi dos horas en la Generalitat, ha asegurado en rueda de prensa que su partido ve fundamental que los catalanes puedan decidir con una consulta legal, y ha destacado que las negociaciones por la investidura no harán cambiar esto: "He explicado al presidente que nosotros cumplimos con nuestra palabra" nunca ha cumplido su palabra.

El líder de la formación morada ha agradecido el cómic sobre Andreu Nin que le ha regalado Puigdemont al inicio del encuentro y ha destacado que no quiere que Cataluña se vaya de España, sino mejorar el encaje constitucional de esta comunidad. O dentro o fuera.

El sustituto de Zidane será...........

Las pocasopciones del galo para seguir en el equipo pasan por remontar

el 2-0 ante el Wolfsburgo.

La directiva ha puesto la mirada en un nuevo técnico para sustituir a Zidane si no cumple con el objetivo de llegar, como mínimo, a las semifinales de Champions League.

El 2-0 en la ida de los Cuartos de Final de la Liga de Campeones ha sido un duro mazazo en la moral del Real Madrid. La derrota en la máxima competición europea podría tener sus primeras consecuencias en el conjunto blanco. El club comenzaría sin duda una renovación que iría desde el banquillo hasta a algunas de las vacas sagradas del vestuario.

José Mourinho sería el elegido para dirigir el nuevo proyecto. Al igual que decidiera en el verano del 2010, Florentino Pérez ha puesto la mirada sobre el portugués para renovar el proyecto deportivo blanco que, de no ganar la Champions este año, repetirá temporada sin títulos por segundo curso consecutivo. Según la información del diario británico 'The Mirror', el Madrid ya se planteó el fichaje de Mou en diciembre cuando se despidió a Rafa Benítez como técnico. En aquel momento el portugués acababa de dejar el Chelsea y no le gustaba la idea de llegar a un club a mitad de temporada, tras media temporada de descanso, Mou quiere volver a entrenar.

Las opciones del portugués pasan por el Madrid y el Manchester United. Ambos banquillos, de momento, tienen dueño aunque ambos dependen de lo conseguido a final de temporada. A Zidane, el Madrid le exige que llegue a las semifinales, más aún después de jugar los cuartos frente a la supuesta 'cenicienta' del sorteo. La victoria en el Camp Nou le dio crédito al técnico francés pero la derrota en Wolfsburgo se lo quitó de un plumazo, el Bernabéu dictará sentencia el próximo martes tras el partido de vuelta.

En el caso del United, los de Manchester tenían bastante claro que Van Gaal abandonaría el club a final de temporada, pero poco a poco el equipo a comenzado a funcionar. Tras un mal inicio de año el United tiene opciones de clasificarse para la Champions League. A falta de siete jornadas se encuentra a un punto del cuarto clasificado, su vecino el Manchester City, y a siete puntos del Arsenal.