• Analysis: Fear of selling Coutinho

Philippe Coutinho , the most expensive signing in the history of Barcelona (120 million euros plus 40 in incentives), the footballer who, according to those who hired him, was to occupy Andrés Iniesta's hole, will play at the German Bayern this season. As the radio station Rac1 advanced, the Brazilian international, recent champion of the Copa América, will travel this weekend to Munich to formalize its new relationship. The operation closed this Friday. The player marches on loan with a purchase option for one season. Bayern, which will pay for the loan, also takes over the player's salary, as Rac1 advanced.

"There is a principle of agreement for the transfer of Coutinho," admitted Guillermo Amor , head of Institutional and Sports Relations of Barcelona, ​​at Movistar Plus. "It will release a record of a great footballer," Amor also assumed, offering one of the keys to that wage mass that suffocates the Barca entity, the sports club that pays the most in salaries in the world.

A year and a half after signing for Barcelona, ​​the Barca director has had no other than to get rid of the Brazilian after a thymus trajectory in the first team, marked by its zero adaptation to the scheme (whether as interior, or as a false left-hander), and because of his poor attachment with a step that he used to whistle. For the memory, the day the player put his fingers to his ears in front of the fans of the Camp Nou, or the commitment of one of his great protectors, Leo Messi, to claim respect for the player.

Coutinho, whose trip to Bilbao was in vain and saw the game against Athletic in the stands of San Mamés, causes a domino effect that could end up being devastating in terms of Josep Maria Bartomeu's interest in seizing Neymar. Coutinho was always Barcelona's master key in the negotiation with the PSG for recruiting the striker. Coutinho's departure to Bayern, however, leaves the Barca president with little room for negotiation. As long as the club fails to convince Ousmane Dembélé , whom PSG would accept in the deal, to pack up for Paris now that he has found a guardian angel in Barcelona in Griezmann.

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