Fati_Future_BallonDor
Humble guy
Who will have thought after 17-18 season that he will go down as one of the biggest flops of barca histoy ?? I remember when people here were happy as fuck that barto signed him (me too). How can you become so bad.
Philippe Coutinho
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serghei
Senior Member
Mentality-wise he is as bad as it gets. We never saw this because the Liverpool he played for were low-pressure underachievers, they were never under pressure to win Premier League titles, or even make the CL places
. At Barca you are under scrutiny from day one.
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
I am still sticking to my theory that it is another Hleb situation; a case of player having personal issues that we don't know about that is destroying his career.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
Too bad we didn't sell him last summer. I know with COVID and all that we likely wouldn't have received a big fee, but listening to Koeman's desire to keep him was a big, big mistake in hindsight.
With his injury troubles this season I don't know if we'll even get 30m for him.
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
I doubt it was just Koeman decision, even before Bayern game it seemed both parties knew he was coming back.
No market for him and his wage, player wasn't going to midtable team and we were never going to give him up when he was worth more than 60M on our books
At this stage we have to forget about the transfer fee paid and find a club willing to loan him for a % of his wage and a low buy option.
I'm sure Coutinho's club expectations have also reduced with this injury. So it will be a case of finding the right fit who will play him so he can give himself a personal shot of finding form and trying to make the WC squad. While we wage dump and try to get him off the books next summer.
Shows just what risky assets football players can be.
I'm sure Coutinho's club expectations have also reduced with this injury. So it will be a case of finding the right fit who will play him so he can give himself a personal shot of finding form and trying to make the WC squad. While we wage dump and try to get him off the books next summer.
Shows just what risky assets football players can be.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
Not too sure about that. We could have at least loaned him out to Arsenal as they were desperately looking for a player like him before settling on ?degaard.
FinBarcelonafan
Well-known member
That was on Koeman though. He wanted to keep Coutinho. Now looking at it, it was definitely a mistake. We had two very similar players in Coutinho and Griezmann. (I think Griez is way better at this point anyway).
We should have loaned Coutinho..
Messigician
Senior Member
Biggest flop in history?
Yes yes yes
Yes yes yes
Barcelona_Boy
Member
And at least he doesnt play, so Barca doesnt have to pay 20m more
Total-Football
Senior Member
Top 3 flops history contenders are all in one team!!! Simultaneously!! Stunning
Fati_Future_BallonDor
Humble guy
CatalinR10
Senior Member
Philippe Coutinho has visited Aspetar in Qatar for a medical consultation today.
Traveled all the way to Qatar ?
FFS first Messi is dragging back Coutinho on the field from making it as a starter in the team ,and now he can't even get treatment somewhere in Barcelona because Messi is in the same city.
SMH.
Jadentheman
Active member
He was photoshopped in the team photo
Richard.H
Senior Member
LMAO! I just noticed that in the team photo. That's hilarious
Here is the link to the team photo in case ya'll didn't see: https://twitter.com/FCBarcelona/status/1381974319035789312/photo/1
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