Philippe Coutinho Post-LFC

[peekay]

Some Catalan newspaper, I think it is Sport gave him 0/10 in the player rating section

[Fernandinho]

Whilst I think Phil was a great player for us I also think we're a better more solid side since he's left 2 * CL finals and currently on 94 points in the league with a game to go I think backs up we've stepped up a level.

Possible we might well have done so with him still here but I we'd not have been as robust with him in the side and I think we'd conceded more chances over the course of the season, the "unfashionable midfielders we've played this season has fitted perfectly to how we want to play.

So what you're saying is we should be praising him for leaving the club and enabling us to become one of the best teams in the world.

Thanks for leaving Phil!

[RichC]

Whilst I think Phil was a great player for us I also think we're a better more solid side since he's left 2 * CL finals and currently on 94 points in the league with a game to go I think backs up we've stepped up a level.

Possible we might well have done so with him still here but I we'd not have been as robust with him in the side and I think we'd conceded more chances over the course of the season, the "unfashionable midfielders we've played this season has fitted perfectly to how we want to play.

[Norbs]

In fairness wasn't the move supposedly because his family weren't settled here (that might be BS but it was mentioned at the time). Also without selling him we might not have had the money to bring in the players who got us to the CL finals.

Also I wonder in hindsight if part of the reason we let him go (and he didn't always start when he was here) was because he wasn't such a team player. This side is about attitude and team work and there is no place for egos for me he doesn't fit into that so well.

Oh yeah, I agree with that. He wanted the move though and had he thought we were able to challenge for the biggest trophy in the world I'm sure he would've wanted to stay. 2 CL finals in the 18 months since he left

[Exiled_red]

Can you imagine how disappointed his family must be with him?

What a div. Would've been playing in his 2nd CL final in 3 weeks. Would've had fans singing his name as a legend and not looking at him like he's scum. He's not going to be remembered after he retires, whereas he could've been a superstar here. What a div

In fairness wasn't the move supposedly because his family weren't settled here (that might be BS but it was mentioned at the time). Also without selling him we might not have had the money to bring in the players who got us to the CL finals.

Also I wonder in hindsight if part of the reason we let him go (and he didn't always start when he was here) was because he wasn't such a team player. This side is about attitude and team work and there is no place for egos for me he doesn't fit into that so well.

[Norbs]

Can you imagine how disappointed his family must be with him?

What a div. Would've been playing in his 2nd CL final in 3 weeks. Would've had fans singing his name as a legend and not looking at him like he's scum. He's not going to be remembered after he retires, whereas he could've been a superstar here. What a div

[The_weatherman]

Our lot didn't, ours gasped as they'd forgotten he was playing

That's true.

[Norbs]

I'm not convinced that any of our players would look as great if they weren't in our team.

United did that for years

[Norbs]

Actually they did boo him off...

Our lot didn't, ours gasped as they'd forgotten he was playing

[Rich]

I'm not convinced that any of our players would look as great if they weren't in our team.

There's clearly the Klopp effect

[Kenneth]

I'm not convinced that any of our players would look as great if they weren't in our team.

[Exiled_red]

All he wanted was to play at the top level and in the big finals.

[Alex]

All he wanted was to play at the top level and in the big finals.

[Shaggy]

**** off Phil

[danperkins]

He'll be sold in the summer, been a failure there. Dire over both legs and it seems pretty similar to what he has been serving up since joining Barca.