Philippe Coutinho

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

Barca will improve their bid for Coutinho to £130m, although they will have to offer more than a guaranteed £80m before add-ons to tempt Liverpool, who value the player at £140m. (Express)

 

£50m up front and £80m in add ons if Cuntinho lands on the moon by 2020.

[Tj hooker]

£50m up front and £80m in add ons if Cuntinho lands on the moon by 2020.

I heard it was Mars and back in a fortnight but that could just be Twitter bollocks.

[Jairzinho]

I wish I was a lowballer

I wish the bid was a little bit smaller

Apparently we've offered them a rabbit but have flat refused to throw in the hat as well.

[Anubis]

barcelona's 5 conditions for £36m in add ons;

 

• Coutinho winning multiple trophies in the same season
• Winning multiple Champions League titles
• Winning the Ballon d'Or as the world's best player
• Winning multiple trophies and the Ballon d'Or in the same season
• Payment of the basic £80m fee staggered over five years

That last one is utterly beyond belief, the basic transfer amount over 5 years? Fuck off.

Liverpool were ready to accept that, but it all broke down because Liverpool wanted those five payments laund... ...paid via Western Union, and Barca were insisting on using PayPal.

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

Barcelona are smug cunts who have rested on their laurels for a while. Now they realise they are shit and are panicking. They are miles away from Real Madrid at the moment.

 

I think that they thought they could rely on that front 3 for years and outscore most teams but they have neglected the rest of their team who have either got older and declined or bought average players to fill out the squad.

 

They'll win fuck all domestically and no chance in Champs league either.

 

Bigger problems for them is that the likes of Messi and Suarez are ageing too.

 

They are in deep fucking shit and they fucking know it.

 

Dembele and Coutinho would even be short term plasters.

[Guest]

Liverpool were ready to accept that, but it all broke down because Liverpool wanted those five payments laund... ...paid via Western Union, and Barca were insisting on using PayPal.

PayPal take a huge percentage and surely eBay would also want a cut from the listing.

[Horus]

I'm standing with Barce. You hear that, Kate Upton? You have up until Sunday evening to accept my marriage proposal otherwise forget it.

[Barrington Womble]

They'll win fuck all domestically and no chance in Champs league either.

 

Bigger problems for them is that the likes of Messi and Suarez are ageing too.

 

They are in deep fucking shit and they fucking know it.

 

Dembele and Coutinho would even be short term plasters.

You can't say they've no chance in the CL. It's a cup competition and they have suarez and messi. They may not have as much chance as Madrid, but they can still wipe the floor with anyone on their day.

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

You can't say they've no chance in the CL. It's a cup competition and they have suarez and messi. They may not have as much chance as Madrid, but they can still wipe the floor with anyone on their day.

 

Forgetting Madrid for a second, look at last year. PSG slaughtered them and should have finished them off. Then Juve dumped them out.

 

And that was with Neymar.

[magicrat]

You can't say they've no chance in the CL. It's a cup competition and they have suarez and messi. They may not have as much chance as Madrid, but they can still wipe the floor with anyone on their day.

 

Over two legs not so easy.  To say no chance is wrong but I wouldn't dream of backing them to win the CL this year.

[Funkasy]

Forgetting Madrid for a second, look at last year. PSG slaughtered them and should have finished them off. Then Juve dumped them out.

 

And that was with Neymar.

Barca scored 6 goals, strange slaughter that.

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

Barca scored 6 goals, strange slaughter that.

 

[Funkasy]

Still 105 minutes remaining.

[Barrington Womble]

Forgetting Madrid for a second, look at last year. PSG slaughtered them and should have finished them off. Then Juve dumped them out.

 

And that was with Neymar.

But that doesn't matter, they're cup games, it doesn't mean they'll be the same next year. Suarez or Messi can win a 2 legged tie in 15 minutes. They might not do it every time, which will hurt them in the league where consistency is important, but they'll always have a punchers chance and they've got the best punchers in the competition.

[Barrington Womble]

Over two legs not so easy. To say no chance is wrong but I wouldn't dream of backing them to win the CL this year.

Remember back to 2005. We'd win the tie in 20 mins at home

[Russ Atmosphere]

They probably thought we'd accept payment in five installments, because we did for Suarez.

[Guest Alex_K]

Makes you wonder how our own 'bids' for Keita & VVD were constructed.

[FrenchEyeGlass]

They probably thought we'd accept payment in five installments, because we did for Suarez.

Exactly. The way we bent over and took that deal still irks me.

[an tha]

Exactly. The way we bent over and took that deal still irks me.

Yeah was a joke.

 

Here was a player who is the absolute definition of world class at his peak and we let him go for only 15m more than we got for a washed up Torres 3 years earlier.

[kop77]

If Barcelona are true to their word and they will withdraw the offer at 7pm tonight.

[neopulian]

Yeah was a joke.

 

Here was a player who is the absolute definition of world class at his peak and we let him go for only 15m more than we got for a washed up Torres 3 years earlier.

 

Would be a joke if he didn't happen to bite Chiellini in front of billions of eyeballs; or that he didn't ask to be sold to Arsefuckingnal the summer previous.

 

I guess everybody in position of responsibility who has to make difficult decisions is never right in your purview. 

[an tha]

Would be a joke if he didn't happen to bite Chiellini in front of billions of eyeballs; or that he didn't ask to be sold to Arsefuckingnal the summer previous.

 

I guess everybody in position of responsibility who has to make difficult decisions is never right in your purview.

You think we got a fair price for Suarez?

[neopulian]

You think we got a fair price for Suarez?

 

Under the circumstances -- it was reasonable. 

[an tha]

Under the circumstances -- it was reasonable.

20m less than Gareth Bale went for 12 months previously - not reasonable in my book.

[Tony Moanero]

Under the circumstances -- it was reasonable.

I bet you bath in baked beans, you bastard.