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I'm sure most of you have heard the Coutinho to Barcelona rumours but they seem to be gathering pace this week.

I was listening to TalkSport earlier this week and Graham Hunter is of the opinion that he is Barcelona's prime target for the Summer and is viewed as a long-term replacement for Iniesta.

Barcelona based newspaper 'Sport' also has him on their front pages today under the headline of 'Objective Coutinho'.

I think the reality is if Barcelona come in for him he will leave, I wouldn't hold it against him at all as it is a dream for pretty much every player, especially South Americans to play for either Barcelona or Real Madrid. However if I were Coutinho these two are the only clubs I would leave Liverpool for, he would be wasted in France. (PSG have been strongly linked as well)

He's under contract so when the inevitable bid from Barcelona comes we must play hardball, Pogba cost £90million. We should be demanding similar money for our best player!

Thoughts?

As long as coutinho does well if he went then I don't mind him going for 60-80m. But, I think he has unfinished business at liverpool.

adds a bit of pressure but if we don't win a big a trophy, as garth crooks unwelcomingly said, cout going is almost inevitable.

It is said klopp has a 'replacement' in mind. I like max, but I hope it's not max meyer, barca were reported interested too? we're in an age of wing forwards, and I wonder when it is all going to blow up.

I'm sure Coutinho is enjoying life at Liverpool, he's playing well in a performing team, he is in the Brazil team due to his performances, so we are not holding back his international career. There is no guarantee he would play at Barca at the moment, we rescued him from the Inter reserves, he is 24 so has plenty of time.

I would not begrudge him the move, he always seems focused and has not mentioned any moves, so when the time comes we should thank him and try and get the best price/replacement available.

I agree a move to PSG would be silly, if he moves I expect it to be Barca or Real, hopefully it's a good auction. He's just scored for Brazil against Argentina, so that's added another £10 million to his value !!!!

A lot of people on here don't really rate him anyway lol.

The big issue i had with Phil was his inconsistency,he's just brill all the time now.

Yep, he was very inconsistent which he seems to have sorted this season, so far.

I don't think there's many players who would turn down a move to Barca or RM no matter who they play for. As long as we get top dollar for him as he must be worth every penny of what Pogba is??

But we need to hope we can win something this year or at very least get top 4 to persuade him to stay.

Agreed. I also think there is less pressure on him now with Lallana, Firmino and Mane all contributing regularly as well!

I'd try to hold him for another season or two if we can. If we can't, then getting 70-80m for him would be good business as long as we replaced him with quality. Not sure who, maybe someone like Draxler or Reus? Or do maybe try and snag Rakitic as part of the deal with Barca (highly unlikely I know)

Well if we stay true to form we'll probably replace him with a 7 - 10m prospect, but maybe Klopp is strong enough to demand a quality replacement. If it was up to me I'd tell those vultures at Barca to take a running jump for themselves, why should we sell one of our best players if we want to challenge for the title and consistently figure in the C L? Liverpool shouldn't be a selling club.

We had the same when we where winning titles with Rushy and Souness, back then Serie A was the place to go now it's the Primera nothing new in it.