7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

1993Kaan1993

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Dembele and Mbappe are possible if we switched to 4-2-3-1 with Paulihno and Busi in midfield. Not sure how we'd play but we'd have two of the brightest young stars

Paulinho 40
Mbappe 180
Dembele at least 130.

No way Barca will spend that much. l even doubt if both Coutinho and Dembele can come.
 

Paul

New member
We were planning on Coutinho for the midfield before Neymar left, so I don't see how we couldn't afford Coutinho+Dembele.
 

1993Kaan1993

New member
We were planning on Coutinho for the midfield before Neymar left, so I don't see how we couldn't afford Coutinho+Dembele.

Barto said that all budget is 60 m euros plus sales. Now Barca has 210 m euros budget. Do you think it will be enough to sign both? Dortmund asks 150 m euros, while Liverpool won't sell Coutinho less than 130.
 

Devils

Senior Member
Barto said that all budget is 60 m euros plus sales. Now Barca has 210 m euros budget. Do you think it will be enough to sign both? Dortmund asks 150 m euros, while Liverpool won't sell Coutinho less than 130.

Barto says a lot of shit, but we were after Verratti and Bellerin who would easily be around 150m. That was before the Neymar sale.
 

Jombi

New member
Barto said that all budget is 60 m euros plus sales. Now Barca has 210 m euros budget. Do you think it will be enough to sign both? Dortmund asks 150 m euros, while Liverpool won't sell Coutinho less than 130.

The corrupt Paulinho signing messes things up but Barto saying the budget is 60m is just tactics. Now Barca has a 210m budget? It should be way more than that considering the sale of Ney alone was 222m.
 

Zincubus

Banned
The crazy part is whilst we've lost Neymar ( I'm absolutely gutted !) who's the second best player in World football we still have the BEST in Messi and possibly the best or second best striker in Suarez .

Most teams would give blood to have even just Suarez but we HAVE him AND Messi in our forward line .

We just need to get the right blend / formation to get the best out if these two for the next 3 years .

To my mind that starts and ends with Coutinho !
( I watch him every week and YES he IS that important to our progression ) .

If we get him I'll rest easy at night .

... Dembele , who's only young and still learning and isn't the finished article may even turn out to be frustrating for a while but he will be important - if only for his ability to attract defenders to him - to make space for Messi and Suarez .


My dream is to get these two as a bare minimum but getting Dybala as well would secure our future and send shock waves throughout football...
 

George_Costanza

Active member
The crazy part is whilst we've lost Neymar ( I'm absolutely gutted !) who's the second best player in World football we still have the BEST in Messi and possibly the best or second best striker in Suarez .

Most teams would give blood to have even just Suarez but we HAVE him AND Messi in our forward line .

We just need to get the right blend / formation to get the best out if these two for the next 3 years .

To my mind that starts and ends with Coutinho !
( I watch him every week and YES he IS that important to our progression ) .

If we get him I'll rest easy at night .

... Dembele , who's only young and still learning and isn't the finished article may even turn out to be frustrating for a while but he will be important - if only for his ability to attract defenders to him - to make space for Messi and Suarez .


My dream is to get these two as a bare minimum but getting Dybala as well would secure our future and send shock waves throughout football...

We are desperately in need of someone to control the midfield, Coutinho is not that player and yes I did watch him too.
 

jairzinho

Senior Member
We are desperately in need of someone to control the midfield, Coutinho is not that player and yes I did watch him too.

Veratti is off the market and Levy wouldn't let Eriksen leave now. Coutinho will be a quality buy and the plus is he wants to come. I think he needs to go the Dembele route and skip a couple training sessions. Not sure if he's willing to do that. That's the only chance we have of forcing Liverpool to negotiate. That was the only way we got Dortmund to at least settle down and negotiate.
 
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