Imo he can stay take a wage cut and act as backup. What happened to him saying a year ago he is aware barca need to find a replacement for him?
I highly doubt he will like being relegated to the bench as backup.
No point in taking any of his interviews with Catalan media with Face Value, most of it is just talk. He'll get upset if we bought an actual young competent number 9 that ends up benching him, and he has enough player power and has the likes of Messi to back him up to pressure the coach to pick him over said young player.
Hell just take any of what the old guard says at face value, they talk and talk about "Oh we need to do better" only to keep having poor performances like they didn't give a shit. Suarez is one of the worst but he's not the only one on this team that thinks this shit. Alba kicked up a stink in Lucho's final season when we went to 3ATB because he got benched, even though he was clearly too small to play as an LCB and we wanted a Diamond Midfield.
Can't forget Rakitic's interviews as well. I just go on an on with this shit.