KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Would you welcome Coutinho back?

I see Barcelona are dropping his price to 60 odd million so should we be tempted?

Steve McManaman wrote this a couple of days ago.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/fo...jurgen-17697304

Our wardrobe has changed since his departure from us...he'd be a winter coat in a range of summer clothes.

Coutinho has to play in a team that is built around him. Liverpool no longer have a central character that everybody else has to accommodate, we are a team of integral parts not individuals.

We benefited from Coutinho on and off the pitch, he was integral to where we are now mostly because of him departing. Good luck wherever you land Phil but hopefully it's not Liverpool FC.

Yeah I agree with that Pickles. You could see him going to City for that sort of price with David Silva in his last season and Sane probably going to Bayern when he is fit again.

Can't see him coming back to us. How would he improve the current team?

We hardly score from long range and direct shots from free kick where he excelled

He also missed allot which used to frustrate Klopp, who would prefer we kept the ball and passed to create a better chance than taking pot shots from 30 yards.

He's a good player but you would need to build the team around him as others have said, just wouldn't fit in that well to how we play now.

Why would we need to build a team around him? Coutinho has a skillset that very few players have. If he is used right he would tear up the PL. 60M in the current climate is a steal for some PL club.

Not for me. Don’t see where he’d fit or how he’d improve us.

Having Coutinho would be like Arsenal having Ozil or Utd having Pogba... luxury players who don’t contribute enough to the cause despite a hefty wage, price tag along with being a stoppy basket. We’ve moved on, no thanks!

No, we don't need him. Going back for a player never works.

Why do we need to build around him, even when he was with us the team was not around him. I think he is better than Ox, Minamino, Lallana and can also play on the left wing if Mane is out so he will improve us. It just depends on the fee.