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Don't think so. Koeman sees him as replacement for Busquets. CM was just Nico's usual position in Juvenil. He only became a DM last year, as both Oriol Busquets and Orella were injured. A change of position that proved to be right, as he found his best form playing there. That doesn't mean that...

The rise of the Brazilian Magician. Opponents won't know what's hitting them when Koeman unleashes his new #10. He finally has a number that's not holding him back like the #7 that's cursed since Arda has worn it. :coutinho:

Clubs will sign him because he is young and has potential, but I doubt his negotiating position will be nearly as great as his agent thinks it is after having not played for a whole season. Let alone what it means for his development as a footballer. Imagine, god forbid, he gets injured severely...

It did indeed impact the salary cap limit for this summer in a negative way. Even without that it wouldn't have been easy to keep Leo as club needed to save 200M in salaries or sell players for that amount to keep him within La Liga's rules. No one wanted Pjanic or Umtiti even for free so far...

Someone has to take it when no one wants to leave and the first team squad is at maximum. Why not give the most expensive's club signing the burden of it?

That alone should allow the club to cut his wages by a big portion. The club should sue the doctor of the French national team or whoever was responsible for asking him to do things that aren't necessarily good in the long-term. If he wants to stay, he can work as personal fitness coach for...

Dude is dropping a 5 paragraph-letter and isn't mentioning his current club once. :crbust:

Hmm, wasn't there lots of short-term-debt to be paid within 12 months or so?

It is an unplanned depreciation, therefore it is counted as expenses as it reduces the profit, or in the club's case, increases the loss.

Like it or not, Coutinho always has been a name in Koeman's plannings. Before he got injured, he had his role in his team and I think him not being in the squad is more a result of convalescence. If I had to choose who to keep out of Pjanic, Umtiti and Coutinho, I'd keep Coutinho. Rumours of...

According to that article, looks like they did a deterioration of the intangible sports assets of 138 million euros. That is, the value of the sports squad on balance has been cut by almost 25% to bring the valuation of footballers like Pjanic, among others, to the market. That's one of the...

Coutinho has been injured for a very long time and has no game rhythm. Wouldn't read much into it of him being not in the squad yesterday unlike fit players like Pjanic and Umtiti. If I need to make a guess I'd say Coutinho will take over Pjanic's #8 once the Bosnian is gone. Coutinho needs at...

This will change very quickly if he keeps playing like that. Some clubs will regret not signing him and fans will talk about how much of a bargain he was. He is playing for a big club now, therefore he'll get much more spotlight and recognition.

Right into the first 30mins I was thinking how he looks like a bull in a china shop. It turned out to be an evening where everything was going right for him. Let's hope he can continue like this.

The first goal of La Real was avoidable. Can't make it so easy for them. The second one... Hard to avoid a goal like that, but I still fail to see how that was a foul by Nico.

Conceding twice after the subs should be telling you why he waited "so long". 70 minutes is fine, it was the first game, there is a lot of time for regeneration as next game is only on Saturday and team needs to find some chemistry.

This deal died the day Messi left officially. Koeman already asked for another striker, so no way Barca is going to sell. If you get 60M and Saul for Griezmann, you can only invest 15M into a new striker.

Only using my school math, so take this with a grain of salt. Pay-cut of 50% of his salary. He'll get 25% of the remaining salary some time in the future.

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He'll score tomorrow.