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Arsene Wenger led an excavation with a thin veil in Liverpool on how they handled the Philippe Coutinho transfer saga in January 2018.
The Brazilian midfielder was desperate to complete a transfer to Barcelona, and submitted an email transfer request for the transfer to take place.
Apparently Liverpool had no choice but to let Coutinho leave, for fear of keeping him at the club any longer would only cause an interruption.
Then Arsenal manager Wenger commented on the situation at the time, when asked: “Are you happy that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Alexis Sánchez have not submitted a transfer request like Philippe Coutinho?”
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Wenger replied, “Yes, I am very happy about that. It is important that you have a serene atmosphere within and clarity about your commitment.
“It is important that the players are not half inside and half outside and that they are completely inside.”
Over the past two years, Wenger seemed to be correct in what he had said, but Jurgen Klopp’s new comments discredited him.
Klopp recently spoke about the 2018 saga in the Pure Football Podcast and explained that Coutinho was not actually the “bad boy” depicted to him.
“I really respected Phil’s change from the first second,” said Klopp. “Not that he does it all the time, but he felt oh wow, that could be difficult.
“So it is not a question of ourselves, we signed a new contract so many weeks before, but it was very clear that I would not have been asked by any other club, but for this club, there was no possibility.”
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“Then we had to be tough in the summer because we had no other solution. We lost Adam Lallana [to injury] in that time too, we would have lost two players.
“That is not possible, you cannot solve that in the transfer market.”
“I was open to it [staying] and that was really cool. So you have to be right in the window and say that we can do it, we don’t like it, but we can do it. “
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