We definitely needed another goal scorer, don't let hindsight affect your opinion. At the end of last season, Barca was struggling for goals and goal threat that didn't come from Messi. Neymar last season was not a goal threat. Alexis was terrible in UCL and couldn't score outside Camp Nou. Barca were definitely in need of a proven scorer.
Alexis could have been kept, he's a good player that had improved at Barca and was likely to continue to do so, but that doesn't mean the team did not need improved scoring.
We can question the wisdom of spending so much for Suarez, but we're doing this under the situation of his and the team's current struggle to prop our argument, which is unfair. At the time of his purchase, Suarez was the EPL's best player and had almost single handily taken Liverpool to the EPL title.
I still think a lot of what's happening to him is not of his doing. This team is struggling in too many areas to blame lack of production on the players alone. When the entire entity is struggling for the most part, we have to look at the bigger picture.
