KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Coutinho to Barca transfer leaked by Nike!

Just get an extra £15m-£20m from Barca.

The only reason to sell now is if we're worried about an injury scuppering the deal later. One option is to sell now, but with an arrangemnet to keep Coutinho with us for the rest of the season.

Did anyone see Coutinho waving as he came off the pitch yesterday? Did he llok like he was saying goodbye?

we need to sue the f out of nike

By all means sue them, but don't sell him. It's insanity.

Why do we keep talking about the money? It's not ours and the people to whom it belongs can afford it no problem.

Selling him weakens us and strengthens Barca. Why do it?

We should bid for Umtiti to [oops] off Barca, meet his 60m euro release clause and partner him with VVD

Hope so. More than sick of this boring disruptive speculation now.
He's going, absolute certainty, be it now or the summer, so get used to it and move on.
We'll survive

It's not us buying or selling but the people to whom they belong.

Dirty fckers. This should be a legal matter.

The story originally broke on Friday that Nike's French website was advertising Coutinho Barcelona shirts. It's ominous nobody from LFC have come out yet to refute the claims even if Nike have since removed their advert.

Guillem Balague has been having his usual say on matters:

On Coutinho. There has been no meetings with Barcelona, FCB have put no new offer (yet), LFC have put no price to him, there was no promise from LFC to him to sell him now, LFC are not forced to sell, but… pic.twitter.com/nzYkt0KcK7

— Guillem Balague (@GuillemBalague) December 31, 2017

As there has been no new offer from FCB yet, we don't know what LFC’s final stand. But they seem more ambiguous. "Nothing is forever… there's always a solution" (Klopp). Are they planning to agree something for the summer? Open to huge offer? Things clearer when FCB sends offer

— Guillem Balague (@GuillemBalague) December 31, 2017

However I did see/read not so long ago somewhere that it was FSG who were negotiating directly with Barcelona officials and that it was away from Klopp and the likes of Peter Moore.

There is a huge problem here because Nike are Coutinho's official sponsors and also the Barcelona team. If anybody knew of an impending departure, Nike would!

This faux pas by Frog Nike has created a problem for LFC / FSG because everybody knows about a potential huge transfer fee and now our targets prices will be elevated because of it. I think we should be tagging on another 100m to the transfer fee...if Barcelona are so keen they need to get compensated by Nike for putting their foot in it!

Coutinho to Barcelona "should" now become the World's Biggest Transfer Fee thanks to Nike!

We can't afford to sell Coutinho in the middle of a tough Pl campaign and in the middle of an even tougher CL campaign. To sell now would risk totally undermining both campaigns, it would be utter madness, we need to hold him until the Summer at least, and have further strengthened the side in addition to an adequate replacement.