What to do with Coutinho? An unforgettable price and a painful and inopportune double

• Bartomeu, the president who survived the 10 plagues

Philippe Coutinho

, right now, is the worst investment in the history of Barça.

After trying to make up

departure

in the summer of 2017 with his signing and instead taking

for whom a price of 105 million euros was agreed to which would be added up to 40 more in variables, the Brazilian He finally landed at the Camp Nou in the winter market of the 2017-18 season in exchange for 120 million euros and up to 40 more for goals.

Of course, without the possibility of playing the Champions League.

UEFA regulations would change a year later.

Despite the fact that his first matches were exciting, the following campaign saw Dembélé win the game over and over again and ended up leaving on loan to Bayern in 2019-20.

It is very significant that, after scoring his last goal with the Barça shirt, in the second leg of the 2018-19 Champions League quarter-finals against Manchester United, at the Camp Nou, he put his fingers to his ears and closed his eyes.

A way, after all, to show his divorce with a hobby that put him under the microscope, both for its price and for those excellent first-time feelings that fell too soon into oblivion.

Now, he has returned to Barça and

has already dropped that he is willing to give him a new chance.

In principle, delaying his position towards the midfield, a place in which, apparently, he feels much more comfortable.

However, if a team came up with a proposal of 100 million euros to take it, little less than a chimera at the moment, the club would gladly accept it.

His performance in his first six months at Barça was tremendous, with an average of

Superior, in this case, to that of his entire stage at Liverpool, in which he signed 0.26 goals and 0.22 assists per game.

In his second season, the first full, instead, he fell to 0.20 goals per game, close to his total average in the ranks of the reds, and 0.09 assists per game.

At Bayern, meanwhile, his English average has improved: 0.28 goals and 0.23 assists per game.

This fact put him in the crosshairs of several

clubs

, but his high profile and the fact that they are not in the Camp Nou for the task of letting him escape for less than 100 million euros have ended up giving Koeman a piece that you are more than willing to take advantage of.

Coutinho, with the echoes of the celebration of the victory in the Champions League achieved by Bayern against PSG on August 23 still resounding, he was quick to point out that he wanted to sign a great season, although he was not very clear then if he could to do it or not at Barça.

Many culés, perhaps, will not easily forgive him that he finished off the very hard 2-8 conceded against the Bavarians in Lisbon with the last two goals, no matter how much he did not even celebrate them.

The option to get that forgiveness is more than ever in your boots.

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