That's my opinion. Great player but can be replaced if we were given time. We would have 3 weeks to try and find a player of similar quality which would be hard to find. Next season, more than happy to leave. He's not the same quality of players we've let go before.
True but he's still our best player and I would hate to lose him. I do think this is the season where we see him at his best playing at CM. he's entering his prime now ...
Same, seeing as Lallana would probably start when fit if we had no Coutinho which would worsen us. Our front three look very good mind.
I totally agree too. It is just natural thing. A south american is always going to end up in Spain, we all know it. Its purely a case of when and how. We signed him up on a long deal and all thought great now we are quids in and can plan on for future. Its purely a case that I can't believe a word out of LFC on it at this point... not due to any Barca antics , we all see though those but due to LFC antics which we've seen too many times before. Its as simple as this. We all know the score as LFC fans, we can see the train wreak panic buy coming. We also don't want southampton crowing cos we caved and they didn't but thats a very small thing. The REAL concern is LFC didn't look really right for the season with the work thus far, we all saw last seasons issues and the high risk the same blow up will happen so now we add in failed transfers and the coutinho goes and 6th or even 7th is staring at us.... IF coutinho goes we could have as much as 250mil available for transfers (if we ever beelived both vvd and ketia were affordable at 70 apeice) and nobody to buy with it... So yeah.. trust LFC scouts to buy 4 top top players for both the now and for 2/3 years time out of the funds... hmmmmm, not so much. I really don't care on the sponsorship thing, it was rather odd but JB thankfully clarified teams will be doing this going forward after premier league opened it up.
yup they don't need to convince me that coutinho is a lovely lad and was happy before barca poked their noses in. they need to wait for klopp's presser and the training pics to come out. News that he can train and had trained would go some but of course if there was news of that and he then didn't play v watford serious questions would be asked.
you should still be asleep who the **** woke you up before we sold coutinho... or have i missed that we've sold him???
We will get players in. Whether it's VVD or Keita we will get players in. As a club we can't deluded thinking LB, LW and a young striker will sort us for this season. we scraped top 4 last season and we players like Henderson, Lallana and Sturridge are too injury prone to be trusted.
One thing Klopp won't do is panic buy. To the outsider i.e. us fans, it looks like all the eggs were in one basket, but we really haven't got a clue what's gone on have we. I can't say I trust Klopp to know what's he's doing after the utter VVD shambles but I also don't distrust him either, if that makes sense. He always said he had first and last say and that's proving 100% true as we also haven't seen a raft of players not really what we want à la Everton's dealings this window. What would you be happy with come the end of the window mito? AND - the photos I posted weren't about smiles ... what?? ... they're about his presence and full participation in all training sessions.
I say we buy John Terry, change his name to coutinho and he can arrive at the Barca ceremony in full kit. Everyone happy!
