Philippe Coutinho

BBZ8800

Senior Member
One thing he is not showing which he did at Liverpool was his range of passing. When played deeper towards end of time there he was spraying ball about for fun but turns down a lot of chances to do that at Barca.

To some extent, he couldn't play longrange passes and passes to different players 2 years ago when every pass needed to go to Messi.

If another player is in a better position, forget it.
You have to pass to Messi who dropped to a CM position and now will try to dribble past three players through a crowded middle.
 

Batistuta9

New member
He had a good game. He's always seemed like a mentally weak player to me. He usually starts well and then loses confidence after a few bad games. Hopefully the loan to Bayern has also made him mentally stronger.
 

Jallo

Member
He plays like a player who was just promoted from the b team not a 160m superstar. He still cannot impose himself in the game, he should be clearly the second best player in the team, but he is not. People are still treating him like a child, congratulating him for doing basic things like running into acres of space and completing a wide open pass.
 

snowy

New member
Thanks to his rite of passage stint with the Bavarian Hordes, he's currently one of the best conditioned player in our squad.
Can play him for the full 90 till the others catch up under Commando's 24/7 non-stop BUD /S

1st Half go 4-2-4 attack focus

Demb - Messi - Trink
Couti
Frenkie - Pjanic
Alba - Lenglet - Pique - Dest
Neto

2nd Half (60th minute sub) 3-3-4

Messi
Pedri - Couti - Trink
Puig - Frenkie- Griezz
Lenglet - Pique - Todibo
Neto​
 

Messi983

Senior Member
He plays like a player who was just promoted from the b team not a 160m superstar. He still cannot impose himself in the game, he should be clearly the second best player in the team, but he is not. People are still treating him like a child, congratulating him for doing basic things like running into acres of space and completing a wide open pass.

We should forget about his price. He'll always be a flop considering what we've paid for him. What we should be focused on now is him actually being useful and help the team to win (which he did yesterday) and at the same time also build up his value so we can sell him next year which for now I still think is what we should do.

Unless he'll turn out to be a consistent top 3 player (in a good, solid overall team not being one of the least worst players in a bad team) and Messi will leave next year so we could actually use Coutinho for another season to let Pedri grow a bit more before he can hopefully take over his spot.
 

malvolio

Senior Member
He plays like a player who was just promoted from the b team not a 160m superstar. He still cannot impose himself in the game, he should be clearly the second best player in the team, but he is not. People are still treating him like a child, congratulating him for doing basic things like running into acres of space and completing a wide open pass.

next we have celta away and sevilla at home. we'll see how this supposed superstar will perform.
 

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