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Not really a flop. He was barely 20 and his game was viewed as still "developing into maturity". A lot of the Inter fans were outraged at him being sold for 8m. Others were outraged at him being sold altogether. It seems Inter were running into financial troubles during that time period and had...

And they rejected all offers for a player who is not for sale? Shocking.....

Yeah, how dare Liverpool refuse to accept a joke of an offer for a player they can legally keep for 5 more years. How dare they decline to help the needs of the great FC Barcelona who keep pressuring them to sell someone they already publicly declared is "not for sale at any price". The nerve of...

Unfortunately in the real world, that is not the case.

LMAO. It certainly must be nice living in your fantasy-land where you get to dictate who gives you what. Congratz!

Someone mentioned it on the Dembele thread. I'm not claiming it as fact. That's why I added the "supposed". In any case, if you have so much money, what's stopping you from getting both now by giving both clubs the amount they wanted? Why the need to drag it out with deadline day looming just...

Not saying Real would have the money to do both. Just saying they don't lowball for extended periods in hopes of keeping everything within budget. In fact Real would probably have paid the 150m asked by Dortmund and then either not sign anyone else or looked for cheaper solutions to Coutinho.

Exactly. But you're trying to buy two players who will definitely cost more than 130m each, with a supposed budget of about 200m. So you either pick one and wait for next summer to get the other, or you go for cheaper alternatives. Personally, I'd get Dembele first as his price has been named...

To be honest, they DO have superiority. You're trying to force them to part with prized possessions that they have no legal obligation to sell for any amount whatsoever. Just because your club's name is FCBarcelona doesn't mean everyone else should bow to your every need. You know what I admire...

Oh come on. Give Paulinho a chance. At least you can be sure that this one won't be flying off to PSG anytime soon.

Its like this. Either Barca offers Liverpool an obscene amount of money, for example in the region of £150m, such that it would be way too huge an offer for FSG to turn down; OR, they can wait for next summer and try again. I seem to recall FSG during the Suarez saga saying how surprised they...

What the hell does that even mean? "ready to fight Liverpool for Coutinho"? Liverpool does not have any legal obligation to sell Coutinho to Barca or anyone else for any amount. He's their contracted player. They could fine him half his weekly wages for the remainder of his contract for showing...

To be fair, the last 50+ pages were full of posts calling him useless, horrible and wanting him gone. I was expecting happy posts to see him out injured for that long.

No problem. We don't have that many players from BRA/Arg anymore anyway and Klopp doesn't seem to be THAT interested in signing players from those countries. I hope FSG sues the fuck out of him as well for attempted blackmail afterwards.

I've been following him since his Inter days. One could see he had a huge potential. That was apparent. However, one of the main downsides about him that has always bugged me was his inconsistency. Liverpool took him in at 20. And its been what, 5 years since? And it is still one of his main...

Many are. Yes. Not me though. The loss of Suarez was a much much bigger blow for the club, especially since we couldn't get Sanchez. Players of Suarez's ilk are much harder to find, let alone get, in comparison to players like Coutinho. Coutinho, when on song, is a joy to watch. However its not...

Agreed. Imagine him playing for Barca against Real Madrid, and he goes missing the whole game, holding onto the ball too long again and again, trying to run with it against a solid defense, losing possession constantly, shooting from 40 yards out 30+ times with no luck. You'd be tearing your...

I know, right? But alas, American owners and all..... They'd probably cave at £90m + £1.

Absolutely. Perhaps we can do a direct player exchange with Alberto Moreno? :lol:

Sure sure. But sign a proper central midfielder for less and you'd be doing a favor to your own team. And judging by that last game, you need to be doing a favor to yourselves a lot more than to others.