Philippe Coutinho

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Serves you right you fucking rats.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/sep/17/barcelona-ousmane-dembele-out-four-months

 

Ha! Fucking made up, unsettled our player until the end and now second choice they signed gets injured for 4 months!

 

Oh and interview with Coutinho:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/sep/17/philippe-coutinho-liverpool-job-offer-barcelona-interested

 

Like I said at the time, dont blame him for being interested, it was the timing the day before our first league game giving us fuckall time to replace him that was poor judgement. Still reckon he'll go next year.

 

Sweet irony. Fuck Barcelona, the corrupt bastards. 

[Shitty Arse]

Gutted for them. They'll be disappointed with that

[KMD7]

Sweet irony. Fuck Barcelona, the corrupt bastards. 

 

Absolutely.  Cunts

[stringvest]

More Barcelona mate for the stunts they pulled and the shit they fed their AS Sport media outlet, like "Liverpool wanted €200m and we said no" on last day of transfer window.

 

Timing of his request/tantrum wasnt impressive though...

 

 

They're as bad as each other imo.  I've got no qualms with players wanting to move, but him pulling the stunts he did to try to orchestrate it?  No-one but him is to blame for that.  He's a grown man for fuck's sake.

[G Richards]

Smashing player. Glad he stayed. Hopefully he will now find his best form and we'll kick on. I'm looking forward to watching him pick out Mane and Salah in the weeks and months to come, and a few beauties from long distance won't go amiss.

 

He said it like it is in the article. An offer was made and he was interested, but it didn't work out, so now he gets his head down to give his all here. It's as it should be.

[magicrat]

Sweet irony. Fuck Barcelona, the corrupt bastards. 

 

The bastards are rumoured to be about to launch a bid to take Mane . 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Well he's better than Coutinho so bids starting at 150m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obviously we should keep him.

[cloggypop]

The bastards are rumoured to be about to launch a bid to take Mane .

Yeah but it's from the Mirror and says we bought him 3 years ago for 11 million. I'm not convinced that it's proper investigative journalism rather than just made up in a pub that the "journalist" didn't have the wifi code for.

[Tony Moanero]

Yeah but it's from the Mirror and says we bought him 3 years ago for 11 million. I'm not convinced that it's proper investigative journalism rather than just made up in a pub that the "journalist" didn't have the wifi code for.

 

 

Fuck off Code.

[jimmycase]

Der Spielgel running with a story that proves LFC did not name a price for Coutinho to barcelona and that the bit about he would be earning a lot less than LFC were paying, to be yet more lies for the little snake's camp. Apparently he'd have been on €23m tax free.

 

http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/fc-barcelona-garantierte-philippe-coutinho-115-millionen-euro-a-1169340.html

[stringvest]

Who cares, really?  If he starts playing well and we benefit from it, then that's a good thing.  If he carries on making bad decisions on the pitch and giving the all away all the time, it's not.

 

One thing that can be said for him is he doesn't appear to be putting less effort in than he did last season.  

[an tha]

To be fair to him he was instrumental in us bossing the first half the other night...his withdrawal was instrumental in us falling apart in the second.

[stringvest]

To be fair to him he was instrumental in us bossing the first half the other night...his withdrawal was instrumental in us falling apart in the second.

 

 

It's amazing that people ignore the effect of the Leicester substitution.  That changed the game, not Coutinho going off.  Watch what happened the minute the lad came on, he made a great run, their crowd started roaring and their whole team picked up on it and were energised.  Coutinho was not about to stop that happening. 

[an tha]

It's amazing that people ignore the effect of the Leicester substitution. That changed the game, not Coutinho going off. Watch what happened the minute the lad came on, he made a great run, their crowd started roaring and their whole team picked up on it and were energised. Coutinho was not about to stop that happening.

Yeah their sub did have a positive impact albeit lucky as it was forced.

 

Still does not change that our substitution at half time had a negative impact on us.

[Jennings]

Both substitutions had a positive impact for Leicester.

[G Richards]

Lovely free kick. I knew he would score before he hit it. Great technique to get over the wall and in at such pace. He's not fully up to speed but he's well on the way. Can't wait to see him with Mane and Salah ahead of him to pick out. We are going to wipe the floor with a few teams soon. Keep the faith.

[Grinch]

Played better midweek against them but got the goal and assist to show for it today.

 

Didn't take all that long to start showing the form that got Barca sniffing.

[sir roger]

Lovely free kick. I knew he would score before he hit it. 

 

So did I Rev, as the feed in my daughter & son-in-law's room was slightly ahead of mine & I heard them shout 'get in'

[Thoth]

From Winners and Losers on F365

 

There might never have been a season of greater individual performance in Premier League history. Luis Suarez spent the summer of 2013 trying publicly to force his exit from Liverpool. The Reds did not relent, Suarez stayed and almost fired them to the title in a phenomenal campaign. Liverpool rewarded him by selling him to Barcelona.

‘I had been so confused; hurt, under pressure, a little desperate, unsure of where to turn, with contradictory thoughts swirling round my head,’ Suarez wrote in his autobiography in 2014. ‘It was one of the reasons they were so convinced that it was right to fight to keep hold of me: they knew I was never going to sulk or not give 100 per cent.’

History might be about to repeat itself. Philippe Coutinho was clearly affected by the events of this summer – confused, hurt, under pressure, a little desperate, unsure of where to turn, one might say. The emotional turmoil he suffered as a pawn of the chess game between Liverpool and Barcelona should not be overlooked or underplayed. Footballers are not robots.

But the question was always going to be of how Coutinho responded when it became clear he would not be leaving Anfield. Doubts were expressed as to whether his heart would still be in Liverpool, whether he could still conjure the same performances that interested Barcelona in the first place.

Consider those fears banished. On his second start of the Premier League season, the Brazilian scored one goal of the highest order and provided a similarly brilliant assist for another. He created five chances, and has now laid on ten chances for teammates in 157 minutes – only Roberto Firmino (11 in 461 minutes) has created more for the Reds.

There is still a legitimate belief that Liverpool might have been better off had they cashed in on Coutinho and used the subsequent funds to improve their defence, but his form is lowest on the list of their current problems. His talent was never in question. Neither is his dedication now

[LFC 6 Times]

What a wonderful footballer he is, does he ever not go past his man. The speed of his feet and agility are just a joy to behold. Think he's going to tear spartak a new one.

[Guest]

Lovely free kick. I knew he would score before he hit it. Great technique to get over the wall and in at such pace. He's not fully up to speed but he's well on the way. Can't wait to see him with Mane and Salah ahead of him to pick out. We are going to wipe the floor with a few teams soon. Keep the faith.

To be fair, I don't think there's any doubt that as an attacking force LFC are up there with the best in the League - if not THE best.

 

The defence is incredibly bad. I watched the highlights of the 2-3 win and between Mignolet, Lovren and Moreno we did everything we could to give Leicester hope when there really should have been none. The goal from the corner was just simply Mignolet flapping at air, while the second goal was Moreno going walk-about. The penalty was a back-pass from Lovren that was like a crafted through ball to Vardy.

 

We may as well go out with a 2-0 deficit and send out our incredible attacking force to turn it around. Maybe that's the training methods they are going through?

[diamondjoe]

 

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[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Back to his best. More of the same Cou and you can go with our blessing in the summer, if you still want. Then, if a decent replacement isn't found, we can staple John Henrys balls to a lamppost while we dance in the street.

[thegreatelephant]

Back to his best. More of the same Cou and you can go with our blessing in the summer, if you still want. Then, if a decent replacement isn't found, we can staple John Henrys balls to a lamppost while we dance in the street.

 

if he has a great season and does leave, on our terms, then nobody loses face. which is what it's been all about and the heart of the issue really. players should come and go when we say and for the right money we are after if they are under a long contract

[Guest]

ha ha ha ha ha

 

Barcelona have been fresh hope of landing £120million Philippe Coutinho in January, according to reports in Spain.

 

The La Liga giants saw three bids for Coutinho rejected by Liverpool this summer, but despite keeping the player, Catalan newspaper Sport claim the Reds are finally ready to relent.

 

They claim Liverpool are apparently more receptive to the possibility of speaking about a transfer and would be more open to the idea of negotiating the departure of the 25-year-old.

 

Although Coutinho has been reintegrated into Jurgen Klopp’s first-team set-up at Anfield, the player’s camp are said to have informed Liverpool’s owners that he still wants to play for Barca and staying this summer has not dampened that desire to move on.

 

Furthermore, it’s claimed the player and his agents do not believe that the fact that he would be cup-tied for the knockout stage of the Champions League would prevent him moving during the January transfer window, with a compromise fee of £120million likely to be agreed.

 

These are certainly very strong claims from Sport, who are often seen as taking a very pro Barcelona stance, and given the Reds fought so hard to keep the player this summer, it would seem strange for them to relent so soon and allow their star man to leave mid-season.