Both MD and Sport posted updates 2 hours ago that Coutinho is gone.
He won't play on Sunday (is it Arsenal iirc?).
MD posted tonight that we will let go Coutinho.
2 Manchester clubs have brought offers apparently.
Also, I am not an economist, there is some part about amortization and how we could earn on that part, due to his amortization from the next season.
Md even said that there is a chance to loan him with a mandatory purchase option.
So, Cou is gone, Malcom is gone.
We will now force Raki and/or Rafinha and 180m for Neymar is here.
Our future is dead with this idiot in our team.
2nd best player in the world, my ass, lol.
I don't believe those rumours. But if we really want to get Neymar then loaning Coutinho (even if we get a 25-30M loan fee with obligatory buy next year which I doubt) won't help us much to get Neymar. Unless we would also use a loan with obligatory to buy. But we know how bad our relations with PSG are and I don't see them accepting this. So I think our best odds to get Neymar are to include Cou in a deal. If we'll loan him to EPL then I don't think we'll get Neymar. And I wouldn't mind that. Offloading Cou while not getting Neymar would be ideal for me. Sign Firpo ASAP, get whatever we can for Rafinha and sell one of Vidal/Raki (I like them both but we have too many players in midfield.) Then we can be done with the transfer window.
I'll try to explain about that amortization part.
According to BBC (
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42580173) and other British sources we've paid £105m (around 115M€) with £37m (around 40M€) add-ons for Coutinho. So a total transfer fee is around 155M€. We don't know how much we have already paid to Liverpool until today (because we're probably paying in installments but this is irrelevant for this debate) and how much bonuses we'll need to pay but let's assume IF we'll loan/sell Cou now we'll have to pay around 130M€ in total because other conditions for add-ons (number of appearances, trophies won,...) won't be reached even if they are very realistic simply because of the fact he won't be here long enough.
Transfer fees are amortised over the lifetime of the player’s contract (transfer fee/length of player's contract). I'm not totally sure how add-ons are included and in Coutinho's case variable part is representing one quarter of the total transfer fee so it's a significant difference if we must include variable part or not. But I think clubs need to calculate entire transfer fee so with all included add-ons even if they are not met/paid later.
Coutinho has signed a 5,5 year contract in January 2018 so his annual amortisation cost is around 28M (155/5,5). In 1,5 years his amortized value is 42M while his unamortized cost is 113M (155-42). So we would need to sell him for 113M now if we wouldn't want to show a loss in the books. Next year his unamortized cost will be 85M so it would be enough to sell him for just that fee to not made an accounting loss on his transfer fee.
This is very simplified without taking wages into account but that's what MD article meant with "how we could earn with amortization" by loaning Cou. Obviously, the same would happen if he would stay here but we don't want him because we wouldn't get a loan fee, we would need to pay his wages and his market value would probably drop more.
Here is a more detailed explanation of the transfer amortisation accounting process based on Luis Suarez's example.
https://tomkinstimes.com/2014/07/ffp-and-the-amortisation-of-suarez
