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Luis Suarez was Barcelonas most valuable player in their title-winning campaign, and is now being mentioned as much as Lionel Messi, says David Moyes. The Uruguay internationals hat-trick in the 3-0 win at Granada sealed a 24th La Liga title for the Catalan club, finishing a point ahead of rivals Real Madrid.Suarez took his final tally to 40 in La Liga and 59 in all competitions with the Copa del Rey final to come on May 22, and Moyes says the former Liverpool man has stepped up to the plate. Suarez has outshone Lionel Messi and Neymar this season Hes the MVP. Hes really stepped it up, Moyes told Sky Sports. Were just beginning to mention Suarezs name as much as Messi at the moment.Messi has been the finest player Ive seen and weve been lucky to see him in this generation, but I think Suarez has come of age in this team.He keeps improving; hes improved at every club hes gone too. When you join the big clubs I think the players want to test you. Watch Suarezs treble for Barcelona at Granada They say come on, if you play for us youre going to have to show us what you can do. I think Suarez has certainly done that.Suarez has more than doubled his tally from his first term at Barcelona, and has also improved his all-round play as Luis Enriques side claimed a second straight La Liga crown.Moyes once again praised Suarezs impact both in scoring and creating, and says his three goals in the title-clinching win summed up his season. Suarezs hat-trick handed Barcelona a 24th La Liga title For the goals he was fantastic, his movement, his attitude to get into the box, I think it made the difference.The big players turn up when its needed and Luis Suarez has turned up in all the games, but especially recently when they needed him.Today he was on the spot, all-round hes been terrific. Also See: Suarez fires Barca to title As it happened La Liga video Guillem Balague Gary Sanchez Jersey . 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Now that hes hitting streaking teammates with pin-point passes for easy layups, Love is asserting himself as one of the true superstars in the league.FIFA will have a new president on February 26. After 18 years, Sepp Blatters controversial reign will come to an official end at the FIFA Congress in Zurich. Five candidates want to replace Blatter and become the most powerful man in world football, and whoever wins will become the ninth elected president in FIFAs 112-year history.The new president will be elected in a secret ballot of FIFAs 209 member associations, but Kuwait and Indonesia are banned, so there may be only 207 votes up for grabs. Africa has 54 votes, Europe 53, Asia 46, North and Central America and the Caribbean 35, Oceania 11 and South America 10. A candidate needs two thirds of the votes to win in the first round. In subsequent rounds, the candidate with the lowest number of votes drops out and a simple majority is required to win.During the past three months, Sky Sports News HQ has interviewed all five candidates - Sheikh Salman of Bahrain, Gianni Infantino, Prince Ali of Jordan, Jerome Champagne and Tokyo Sexwale.Over the next few days we are profiling each candidate, study their manifestos and assess their chances. We continue the analysis by looking at Jerome Champagne.Profile: Sheikh SalmanProfile: Tokyo SexwaleJEROME CHAMPAGNE:WHY IS HE STANDING?Like Prince Ali, Champagne has unfinished business at FIFA. He tried to stand in last Mays election, but he could not get the five letters of support he needed from member associations. This time, he received the letters and his self-funded campaign has been all about reforming FIFA and making football fairer for all.Champagne worked at FIFA for 11 years until he was fired by Sepp Blatter. Blatter had been put under pressure to act by the disgraced former president of the Asian Football Confederation Mohammed Bin Hammam. Champagne says he fell out with Bin Hammam while he was trying to clean up some of the confederations. WHAT ARE HIS CHANCES?He has no chance of winning, but he would argue his ideas have been an important part of the debate. At the start of the campaign, he predicted this would be an open election: This crisis is very severe. A lot of federations want someone with experience. I dont mind being an outsider. [Barack] Obama was an outsider, Pope Francis was an outsider, Francois Hollande was an outsider. That is life.Even though he is a rank outsider for the top job, Champagne may yet be involved in the next administration. He has the experience and appetite to be a secretary general.WHAT KIND OF PRESIDENT WILL HE BE?Champagne says he would do three things first if he won: kiss his wife, open a bottle of champagne and go out to celebrate. The next day he would set out to modernise FIFA.He says he would be a hands-on president. In what could be construed as a thinly-veiled dig at Sheikh Salman, Champagne said some of his opponents wanted to be the honorary president while he wanted to be the real president.Champagne knows his way around FIFA, having worked in Zurich as an adviser to Blatter and as the deputy secretary ggeneral and the director of international relations.dddddddddddd Before FIFA he was a sports journalist, a French diplomat and the head of protocol at the 1998 World Cup in France. Champagne revealed he had differences with Mohammed bin Hammam WHAT STANDS OUT IN HIS MANIFESTO? It could be bad news for Europe if Champagne gets anywhere near the presidency. His proposals for re-allocating World Cup slots would lead to fewer places for Europe. At the moment Europes 53 countries get 13 World Cup places while Africas 54 countries get only five places.Champagne says we need a fairer system and he does not think the answer is to expand the World Cup from 32 to 40 teams.Less controversially, he wants to make FIFA more transparent, boost development programmes, raise the profile of womens football and introduce video technology to help referees. Champagne wants to double FIFA funding to the poorest 100 member associations, from £170,000 a year to £340,000 a year.He would also try to move the 2022 Qatar World Cup back from winter to May and June.WHAT DOES HE THINK OF SEPP BLATTER?There are no hard feelings, even though he was fired by Blatter. Champagne thinks Blatter is an honest man who has made bad management decisions: As far as we know he has not been accused of embezzlement. Im sure that history will judge him differently than the current news. No-one can argue that he has revolutionised the game.The two men are still in touch and Champagne phoned Blatter when the suspended president was released from hospital after a stress-related illness in November. Sepp Blatter sacked Champagne at FIFA but the pair are still on good terms WHO DOES HE BLAME FOR THE FIFA CRISIS?Champagne blames FIFAs problems on bad management and the greed of senior officials who wielded too much power with too little control.He worked at FIFA from 1999 to 2010 and he has never been accused of corruption or dishonesty: People in football know I am clean but I understand the scepticism. Theres a difference between smelling something and having the evidence.WHO DOES HE SUPPORT?St Etienne and Barcelona. He grew up supporting St Etienne but he is also a paying member of Barcelona.He says if he is elected he will remain a fan first: I want to tell English fans that I am one of them. If elected, my biggest concern is to keep feeling the pulse of the fans.Watch full coverage of the FIFA Presidential Election on February 26 on Sky Sports News HQ. Also See: Profile: Tokyo Sexwale Profile: Sheikh Salman FA to back Infantino Platini upbeat Blatter appeal to be heard ' ' '