Rakitic: Playing with Barca Trio is "Not Easy"

Barcelona midfielder Ivan Rakitic says he is willing to run “5,000 kilometers” so one of the team’s three star forwards — Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar– can remain in the final third, but he admits it’s hard work. The forward trio fired the Catalan club to a European and domestic treble last season and have been hailed as one of thefinest attacking combinations of all time. “Many people say that it is very easy to play with them,” Rakitic tells Marca. “I don’t agree. They are players of a different leveland if we play for them is because they have earned it, but that does not mean it’s easy. And if I have to run 5,000 kilometers to one of them to have their best moment, I will do it. We doit.”