Philippe Coutinho

[delancey]

No Way Bayern will purchase him at the end of the season. Mark my words!!! This Barcelona Board is just incredibly stupid, and we just gave a 150m+ player away for basically nothing, instead of showing confidence in his ability and helping him regain form. Fret not, Coutinho will be back next summer, at least temporarily, until we offload him to another club for 20% of his value (if that). This is cringeworthy business. Disrespectful. Wasteful. Stupid.

He should never have been allowed to leave on loan unless the purchase option at the end of the season was mandatory + a solid loan fee. How much are we receiving from Bayern? Are they paying 100% of his salary?

Again, isn't anyone else disgusted by this piece of business? The Germans are laughing right now in the boardroom, guaranteed.

 

[Donauwelle]

No Way Bayern will purchase him at the end of the season. Mark my words!!! This Barcelona Board is just incredibly stupid, and we just gave a 150m+ player away for basically nothing, instead of showing confidence in his ability and helping him regain form. Fret not, Coutinho will be back next summer, at least temporarily, until we offload him to another club for 20% of his value (if that). This is cringeworthy business. Disrespectful. Wasteful. Stupid.

He should never have been allowed to leave on loan unless the purchase option at the end of the season was mandatory + a solid loan fee. How much are we receiving from Bayern? Are they paying 100% of his salary?

Again, isn't anyone else disgusted by this piece of business? The Germans are laughing right now in the boardroom, guaranteed.

What makes him that 150m+ player? The price you paid for him? His best season has been the 2016/17 season at Liverpool with 13 goals and 7 assists. In summer the english fans at Transfermarket valued him at 45 million EUR just some months before Barcelona bought him.

His favourite position is a position that apart from the national teams (where other things count) is non existent anymore with the top clubs. To play him best you actually would need to tweak the systems because of the weaknesses he has. Football is not just about the fancy moments even if the highlight moments every weekend or the youtube videos only show that.

 

[EdmondDantes]

Bayern won't buy him. They're copying Juventus these days, signing players on a free.


My hope is he does well and we sell him to a Premier League club. We need to recoup some of that dough.

 

[Sailor Mars]

Its funny how the Rosell/Bartomeu presidency has overpaid for transfers that caused us to lose the champions league twice.
In 2009, Rosell wanted a big name signing to counter Real Madrid buying CR7, kaka, benz, xabi so he went out and sent 50 mil and Eto'o to Inter for Ibrahimovic.
Inter used that money to buy Milito, Sneijder, Lucio, Motta, and Pandev(free transfer) who beat us in the 2010 Champions League semi-finals.

Same thing with Coutinho . Bartomeu overpaid for a galactico signing, and Liverpool used that money last summer to strengthen their team. Maybe Liverpool signs Van Dijk even without the Coutinho sale, but no chance they sign both Alisson and Fabinho who were vital to their Champions League run.

 

[Catta]

Its funny how the Rosell/Bartomeu presidency has overpaid for transfers that caused us to lose the champions league twice.
In 2009, Rosell wanted a big name signing to counter Real Madrid buying CR7, kaka, benz, xabi so he went out and sent 50 mil and Eto'o to Inter for Ibrahimovic.
Inter used that money to buy Milito, Sneijder, Lucio, Motta, and Pandev(free transfer) who beat us in the 2010 Champions League semi-finals.

That was Laporta and not Rosell who overpaid. Rosell came to Barca in 2010, and we won the CL in his first season as president.

Sandro Rosell Signings
Apart from Song, all signings while he was the president were a success or we got our money back. Rosell is not an idiot like Barto is.

 

[DonAK]

That was Laporta and not Rosell who overpaid. Rosell came to Barca in 2010, and we won the CL in his first season as president.

Sandro Rosell Signings
Apart from Song, all signings while he was the president were a success or we got our money back. Rosell is not an idiot like Barto is.

We won the CL based off Pep, Txiki and Laporta's work, not Rosell's.

Rosell is also the same guy who brought Tata Martino to the club and implicated the club in a corruption scandal due to the shit deal he made with Neymar's father, costing the club several millions in fines.

And do you really think Rosell doesn't have a hand in the politics and policies at Barca these days? Please.......Bartomeu was basically his puppet from day one.

 

[George_Costanza]

That was Laporta and not Rosell who overpaid. Rosell came to Barca in 2010, and we won the CL in his first season as president.

Sandro Rosell Signings
Apart from Song, all signings while he was the president were a success or we got our money back. Rosell is not an idiot like Barto is.

Rosell didn't need to sign many players because he has inherited the best team in the history of football, but he did sign some flops

Cesc Fabregas
Alexis Sanchez
Alex Song

 

[behindbrowneyes]

Rosell didn't need to sign many players because he has inherited the best team in the history of football, but he did sign some flops

Cesc Fabregas
Alexis Sanchez
Alex Song

Barcelona sold Alexis for more than they paid for him. Can't really consider him as a flop. He was good, but just not the right fit for Barcelona. He's at his best when he is the main man.

 

[delancey]

What makes him that 150m+ player? The price you paid for him? His best season has been the 2016/17 season at Liverpool with 13 goals and 7 assists. In summer the english fans at Transfermarket valued him at 45 million EUR just some months before Barcelona bought him.

His favourite position is a position that apart from the national teams (where other things count) is non existent anymore with the top clubs. To play him best you actually would need to tweak the systems because of the weaknesses he has. Football is not just about the fancy moments even if the highlight moments every weekend or the youtube videos only show that.

That is exactly my point: Why purchase a 150m+ player who doesn't even fit into our current manager's plans? Only to loan him out 1.5 years later for close to nothing, without a guarantee that he will be purchased by Bayern? A leader's job is to inspire and bring out the best in his players, which is something Valverde is incapable of doing. Spending so much money on Dembele and Coutinho, only to see them being mismanaged, is cringeworthy.

Another thing: Klopp gets the best out of his players, including Coutinho, who played very well at Liverpool. A good manager finds a way to tweak the system to ensure that all of his players perform. Otherwise, why did he not speak up before purchasing Coutinho? I hate excuses and many times the blame should lie with the leaders, not the players. This deal is an embarrassment and a complete waste of funds.

 

[Armchair Expert]

How'd he do against Mainz? Loaning doesn't seem like great business now that we've failed to bring in a forward and are stuck with like 10 midfielders. I'd rather have kept him and offloaded Rakitic.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

How'd he do against Mainz? Loaning doesn't seem like great business now that we've failed to bring in a forward and are stuck with like 10 midfielders. I'd rather have kept him and offloaded Rakitic.

True. Now it seems like a real bad deal for us. Pointless. We dropped wages, only positive.

 

[El Flaco]

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[FinBarcelonafan]

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Good for him. Let's hope he plays well enough, so they will buy him. (Never going to happen, sadly.)

 

[clemente]

Obviously Bayern isn't gonna pay 120m for him this will be so awkward when he comes back, hope fans will forget by then the shit he is saying right now.

 

[CatalinR10]

this guy still a football player ?