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Philippe Coutinho

big blue said:
His age doesnt really bother me, i only pointed it out, because i think if he hasnt shown consistancy by now, then maybe he never will, which makes me skeptical about spending so heavily on him. 

I really dont think we need an attackong midfield. We have RLC, Barkley as a back up, and Mount coming through. The more pressing need is in the front line, so i'm hoping if we can spend big, we spend it on Wingers and Strikers.
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Fair enough, though the point you are making is directly related to his age.  If he was a few years younger, we would chalk up his inconsistency to him being young and the hope would be that he would improve.  At 26 (27 in less than a month), he's pretty much the finished article.

I agree that we could probably get by with RLC, Barkley, and Mount, though if RLC has injury issues I hope very much that Mount is ready to shoulder a big load, because I really don't think Barkley is going to be up to the standard we need.

 
WalterWhiteCFC said:
I dunno about that I think we have made the mistake of buying lots of mediocre players before, I believe the opposite but players that will instantly improve the squad, imagine courtinio or Barkley and kova, I’d rather have a courtinio standards player for double the price and have a youth player as his back up than 2 ok players that don’t do much 
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I agree on buying rubbish but Coutinho is awful business at 100m. 70m on Pepe and 40 mill on Telles wouldn't be buying cut price average players. Telles has a buyout and the Pepe fee is a lot of money. I think he would be worth it.

 
Our priorities should be upgrading the CF and LB first before making any Galactico-type signings

 
Unfortunately, if RLC is out long-term, it probably increases the chances of us buying Coutinho.

 
Mount isn’t ready to replace RLC, I’d take Coutinho. He can take RLC’s spot while he’s out, and then go back to LW.

I agree about a striker though, clearly the most important.

 
dansubrosa said:
Mount isn’t ready to replace RLC, I’d take Coutinho. He can take RLC’s spot while he’s out, and then go back to LW.

I agree about a striker though, clearly the most important.
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Respectfully disagree with you here, I believe Coutinho would lack a key element to cover for RLC, one which Mount will have in abundance, heart.

 
dansubrosa said:
Mount isn’t ready to replace RLC, I’d take Coutinho. He can take RLC’s spot while he’s out, and then go back to LW.

I agree about a striker though, clearly the most important.
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If we sign Coutinho (and I really hope we don't) then I wouldn't want him anywhere near that LW position. He's not a left winger, he never has been. He's being played out of position at Barcelona and he looks awful for them.

 
Exactly we don't want anyone blocking CHO's rightful position of LW when he's back fit. (Touching wood he stays.) Pulisic can fill in there for the start of the season. These injuries are just increasing the likelihood of us keeping Willian & Barkley I think and with them as rotation in the team I don't see us going anywhere.

 
Deino said:
He's just the guy Liverpool used to bring on as a last ditch attempt to do a thunderbasterd. If we needed that then we should go for James Rodriguez, cheaper and a slightly better player overall.
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Haha, sarcasm?
 
ForeverCarefree said:
You don't get the best out of him by playing him on the wing but I don't want to see him come in and block RLC's path into the first team in an attacking midfield slot. 
If we're happy to throw £80-100m at one player I'd rather we went all in on a quality striker personally, I think that would do more to improve the team than what Coutinho offers. 
Our rumoured interest in Courtinho has been doing the rounds for quite a while now though, so I think there's quite a big chance we'll try and sign him if we avoid the ban. 
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I agree a striker should be our priority. Remember our best midfield combination is RLC, Kante and Jorginho. For a team that just want to try and finish the season in the top 4, thats not a bad set of midfielders. But for a team that want to really compete for the title, and a team that want to at least get into the quarter finals of the champions league next season, that midfield looks incomplete and lacking a class midfielder that can score goals and create something out of nothing. I have been impressed with RLC this season, but the fact is, he seems like an injury prone player to me who is likely to get injured at least on three different occasions in a season, I think a top class attacking midfielder who can also play on the wings when RLC is fit will give our team a big boost and I can't think of any midfielder out there that fits better than Coutinho. His set-piece ability is a bonus!
 
Bobbywoodhogan said:
He was pretty damn good for Liverpool in this league. I think YouTube player is very harsh. Sometimes it doesn’t work out for players. Heck Bergkamp was w**k for Inter and phenomenal at Arsenal. 
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It's funny how people underrated him now because he is struggling in Spain. I can't believe many people already forgot how good he was when he was with Liverpool.
 
big blue said:
Coutinho is like Oscar for me, shows up for 3 or 4 months a season. 
Theres no doubting his ability, but it would be a very expensive. 
I would much prefer Joao Felix. He's more suiited to play across the front 3, and his career is just taking off, rather than hitting a plateau or declining. I get the same vibes watching Felix, as i did watching Hazard at lille. Some players are just destined for greatness.
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Oscar? It's ridiculous to compare Oscar with Coutinho. Coutinho is a world class player.
I can't even remember anything good about Oscar when he was here other than that goal against Juventus. Even Ramires was a much better player.
 
Deino said:
Except Coutinho plays better on the left or as a #10. If the signing happens then we can either say goodbye to CHO or Ruben's progress will stop.
Much rather we spent the money on a WC Striker then sell Morata to fund a transfer for a LB like Telles. Our squad would at least go up a level.
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Can you guarantee that RLC will be fit to play in all EPL and Champions league games?
 
Zeta said:
He was woeful for Barcelona against Liverpool. We need big players who will turn up when it matters most, not more inconsistent ones who go missing.
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Barca has a sh*t manager. He has been playing Coutinho on the left wing and as a result he is not getting the best out of him. Instead of trying him in the attacking midfield position, Valverde kept on playing him on the left wing hoping that Coutinho will suddenly get back his form. Talk about sh*t managers that can't get the best out of there team, he is up there. He has been doing the same with Dembele too.
 
Scott Harris said:
If we sign Coutinho (and I really hope we don't) then I wouldn't want him anywhere near that LW position. He's not a left winger, he never has been. He's being played out of position at Barcelona and he looks awful for them.
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As a left winger in the Spanish league, he struggled. But that doesn't mean he struggled when he played on the left wing in the EPL.
 
wallosh said:
Zeta said:
He was woeful for Barcelona against Liverpool. We need big players who will turn up when it matters most, not more inconsistent ones who go missing.
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Barca has a sh*t manager. He has been playing Coutinho on the left wing and as a result he is not getting the best out of him. Instead of trying him in the attacking midfield position, Valverde kept on playing him on the left wing hoping that Coutinho will suddenly get back his form. Talk about sh*t managers that can't get the best out of there team, he is up there. He has been doing the same with Dembele too.
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