Coutinho returns to Barcelona, crowned with 3 tournaments!
The German football club Bayern Munich confirmed today, Wednesday, the return of the Brazilian player Felipe Coutinho to Barcelona after his loan period ended and the Bavarian team's unwillingness to sign him permanently.
Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who made it clear last month that he would not permanently contract with Coutinho, said: "With his creativity and excellent technology, he lived with us our matches this season in which we achieved the trilogy (the League, the Domestic Cup and the European Champions League)."
The 28-year-old Brazilian fought one of his most prominent seasons after he had gone through a frustrating period in Barcelona after moving from Liverpool in 2018.
Coutinho scored 11 goals, and scored nine other goals, in 38 matches with Bayern in all competitions, including two goals in The historic match in which the European champions beat the Catalans 8-2 in the quarter-finals of the continental championship.
Coutinho has struggled to participate as a mainstay in coach Hanzi Flick's squad since he replaced the dismissed Croatian Niko Kovac last November, after Flick preferred Thomas Muller to him in the attacking midfield.
The German team obtained the Brazilian "temporary" services from Barcelona for 8.5 million euros (10 million dollars) with the option to buy, but Bayern preferred not to activate this item, which would cost him 120 million euros.
"It is difficult for us to make any other investments of this size in these difficult economic times," Rummenigge added.
It seems that Coutinho will have a greater role in Barcelona with the arrival of the new Dutch coach Ronald Koeman, after rumors spread about a contact between the two people on Monday to assure Coutinho that he is part of his plan for the next season.
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