Philippe Coutinho Post-LFC

[MrMichael]

It is with great reluctance that we - as a team and club - prepare to say farewell to a good friend, a wonderful person and a fantastic player in Philippe Coutinho. It is no secret that Philippe has wanted this move to happen since July, when Barcelona first made their interest known.

Philippe was insistent with me, the owners and even his team-mates this was a move he was desperate to make happen. Despite that, we managed to keep the player here beyond the summer window, hoping that we would be able to persuade him to stay and be part of what we are looking to do.

I can tell the Liverpool supporters that we, as a club, have done everything within our means to convince Philippe that remaining part of Liverpool was as attractive as moving to Spain, but he is 100 per cent certain his future - and that of his family - belongs at Barcelona.

It is his dream and I am now convinced there is nothing left at our disposal to change his mind. Philippe has made a fantastic contribution to this club over his five years of service and as disappointed as we are that he doesn't want to extend that, the relationship we have for him means, with a heavy heart, we wish him well

Ok, lets do the new thread thing...

[McDermotX]

Nice

[Roboklopp]

Laters cunt.

[Alex]

Nice to see the club treating a player like a human rather than a contracted bit of meat. Good statement from the boss. Let's hope he achieved what he thinks he needs.

[danperkins]

Cuntinho

[Buzzo]

Bought for £8.5m Jan 2013; Sold for £140m Jan 2018.

Fair to say we’ve turned him into a bit of a player.

[Roboklopp]

Bought for £8.5m Jan 2013; Sold for £140m Jan 2018.

Fair to say we’ve turned him into a bit of a player & a massive cunt.

[baitman]

deleted.

[Assassin]

Not too bothered about him leaving to be honest. We are not a one man team nowadays and results when he was not playing did not seem to be any worse

[MrMichael]

Laters cunt.

Ok, so leaving us in the middle of the season is very disappointing, however we did also sign him in the middle of a season and we clearly kept him at the club against his will in lieu of Barca actually making us an acceptable offer for him for 6 months. Obviously he had personal reasons as well as professional ones for wanting to move to Spain, and if we do want to get really good South American players at the club this is going to happen eventually with some of them, as we saw with Suarez.

All the "rat" & "cunt" stuff to me is a bit unnecessary, I'm not saying we should be happy for him but meh, he didn't down tools this season and we got a huge fee for him, we'll be fine without him.

[Roboklopp]

He did down tools tho from what it seems?

[baitman]

as the first of the fab four to leave does this make him john lennon now?

[baitman]

from bbc, so dont know if these biased cunts have it right.

Liverpool with and without Coutinho in 2017-18 prem games.

Liverpool have picked up more points per game without Coutinho this season than with him

without ..... with
13 Games 9
6 Wins 6
6 Draws 2
1 Losses 1
46.20 Win % 66.70
1.8 Points per game 2.2

[Shaggy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/AnfieldHQ/status/950070892633231361[/ame]

[MrMichael]

He did down tools tho from what it seems?

Well he was on for pretty much his best ever return for us in goals/assists, so clearly he was trying when he was on the pitch. Which probably was because he knew he was getting his move, if a few months after he wanted.