Philippe Coutinho

[Roboklopp]

They can **** off. They don’t even need him until summer. ****ing cunts.

[Exiled_red]

Like I said earlier, if we are going to sell now, we need be getting a huge fee, I would be saying however much it cost to buy Lemar (or whoever we see as a replacement) plus x million. Given that Lemar would likely cost ~£90m I would say we should be looking at something like fee for Lemar + £80m

[Chris]

130 million is a laughable fee. Monaco want close to 92 million for Lemar. If we are selling him it should be close to 200 milion.

It is all about setting a precedent also. We cannot let Barca or Real bully us to sell our players.

It also makes no sense to agree on a fee now for the summer. Madrid have had a horrible season by their standards. This is a world cup summer year. They have the habit of shelling out a large amount of money on the latest world cup star to pacify their fans. Unlike Barcelona, Madrid actually pay full value.

If there is even a slight chance that Madrid or PSG might enter the race in summer, we should hold out.

Milinkovic Savic is mentioned at 100m too. I dont want us to sell in any circumstance but it doesn't make football or financial sense to do it now. And like you mention the world cup, a few long range stunners and Brazil win the World Cup and his price isn't far off doubling!

[Kenneth]

We'll agree a move now to complete in the summer imo.

[BobTheCharmer]

He's a cunt of a lad though so it is difficult but at some point we have to get out of this thing about being open to letting our best players go, if it takes upsetting him or whatever then so be it because it doesn't end here, Salah is next.

This doesn't fit with the bloke I see when he's visiting the kids at hospital or the recent video of him at the school with firmino and ox.

He's never come out and said anything and he's playing his best football. He could have sulked.

We may of said he could go in Jan and are now backtracking on what was agreed. Who knows. I must admit when we announced Virgil I did expect it might be based on Phil going to Barca. If that hadn't gone tits up, both deals were probably going through in the summer.

I hope he stays until May.

[Tatterdemalion]

I'm not inclined to believe even half of what I read about Coutinho in this episode. Reading that he's refusing to play etc. and getting the arse about it just makes it harder for the club to keep him. I don't believe it.

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I'm not inclined to believe even half of what I read about Coutinho in this episode. Reading that he's refusing to play etc. and getting the arse about it just makes it harder for the club to keep him. I don't believe it.

[Chris]

This doesn't fit with the bloke I see when he's visiting the kids at hospital or the recent video of him at the school with firmino and ox.

Yeah thats good of him, now it'd be nice if he could get on the pitch during the transfer window while we pay him 150k a week.

[Buzzo]

Seems like he was at training today so I guess that the thing which will let us know what is going on is when the lineup is announced on Friday. We will see if he has developed another of those back strains or if he is going to help us win football matches.

All the noise seems to be coming from Spain whilst Phil and the club remaining very quiet...

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[ame]https://twitter.com/AnfieldExpress/status/948281413475938304[/ame]

[Lecter]

Barcelona didn't get near our valuation in the summer and once again we have laid down a marker as to what we want

Phil knows the figure and so do Barcelona (excluding add ons)

It's interesting to note all the newspapers talking the same ballpark figures

It's up to them now

[Leyton388]

That's nice of him the ****ing idiot must have forgot about his 4 years left on his contract.

I can guarantee Barca will not meet our valuation and try to lowball us and have Phil pressure the club by refusing to play

[Lecter]

https://twitter.com/AnfieldExpress/s...81413475938304

He said the same in the summer

Barcelona and him know the score. We won't sell until they reach our price

[Lecter]

That's nice of him the ****ing idiot must have forgot about his 4 years left on his contract.

I can guarantee Barca will not meet our valuation and try to lowball us and have Phil pressure the club by refusing to play

That worked well in the summer didn't it

[Leyton388]

That worked well in the summer didn't it

And that's why he's an idiot.