7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

Trafalgar

Senior Member
Seems less and less fake if you ask me.

Just saw this as well:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="nl"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sick of these questions to Phil. Well done Ox stepping in. Great team spirit. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ynwa?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ynwa</a> <a href="https://t.co/yiVWsLdBoK">pic.twitter.com/yiVWsLdBoK</a></p>— Mark Hamilton (@Redhammy71) <a href="https://twitter.com/Redhammy71/status/942463987240796161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">17 december 2017</a></blockquote>
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This is a 'I am leaving alright' - post-match interview if I have ever seen one.
If Coutinho's reply didn't make it clear already, Chamberlaine's interruption got you covered.

Well he looks very uncomfortable
 

RMU ReBorn

New member
[@DiegoMSport]:
The transfer of Coutinho to Barcelona is complete. The transfer fee stands at ¢ã125 million. He signs on a 5 year deal!


I am not sure how authentic is this . If this is true Iniesta will become much more lethal with enough rest and Messi can move closer to the finisher he was at the beginning of the season
 

springfield

New member
I find it hard to believe that Nike would get wind of our transfers...

Nike would know it before its made public. The shirt sponsor needs to prepare for selling his shirts. The IT dev team needs to change the website, this doesn't happen in 1 hour. But this doesn't mean it's true. I work in IT and know how things go. It's also possible that Nike has to be prepared for if Barcelona can sign Coutinho that they can immediately release the new code which allows people to buy his stuff. So it's just possible somebody accidentally released this. code.

I guess we will know in the upcoming days.
 

serghei

Senior Member
I'm wandering that maybe Coutinho got Liverpool to agree to a sale in winter last summer. And now they're keeping their word to him. Just maybe. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense for Liverpool to sell now, except if it was agreed in the summer.
 

Tepid water

New member
I'm wandering that maybe Coutinho got Liverpool to agree to a sale in winter last summer. And now they're keeping their word to him. Just maybe. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense for Liverpool to sell now, except if it was agreed in the summer.

100% no.

Liverpool didn’t sell in the summer because the bid came too late to allow their manager to adequately plan for the year ahead. That the bid came in so late and was so derisory was entirely the fault of the Barca board. Had an offer been made at the start of May, and it had been realistic, I have little doubt that the chap would have been playing in a Barca short since August.

So, does it really seem likely that his club would now let him leave in the middle of the season, in January half way through a season?
Of course it doesn’t, it would be a bizarre decision for his club to sell him after their stance in the summer. Do they need the money? Not a bit of it.

Now.. in the summer, there were no meetings between the two clubs. Yet certain aspects of the press repeatedly told us that the clubs had met and had agreed a few. They even told us the clubs were meeting at the champions league draw.. and we know for a fact that this was a lie..... and yet some believe the same sources, the same lies again.

Now, if the board decide to pay a reasonable price for his services (the same as Dembele is probably a starting point for negotiations) and they prepare to do the deal early enough for Liverpool to plan their squad... then I’m sure it will get done in the summer.
No chance before though..
 

Ghostmaster

Danger Ahead
Don't believe Catalan media anymore, but look what I found:

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These Liverpool journous don't look that confident anymore, they went from "not for sale", "not gonna happen", to "they need to keep him January".
 
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Vilarrubi

New member
Don't believe Catalan media anymore, but look what I found:

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These Liverpool journous don't look that confident anymore, they went from "not for sale", "not gonna happen", to "they need to keep him January".


It isn’t a show of ambition though, he’s thinking that because of the price.. It’s just the current market value.
 

Xaviniesta

Senior Member
Why are people still doubting this move? Almost 12 hours later and Nike STILL haven’t released a tweet or statement about this

That pretty much confirms they fucked up and Coutinho is in fact coming. It couldn’t be more obvious.
 

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