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Publish Date: Thursday April 30, 2020 9:12 AM
Philippe Coutinho’s departure from Liverpool in January 2018 saw Jurgen Klopp deliver some key transfer tips from legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson, the Scotsman revealed.
Coutinho was considered one of the best players in the world when Barcelona disbursed a club record of £ 142m to take the Anfield Brazilian to the Camp Nou and end a nearly two-year chase for the player. However, unfortunately for Liverpool, it appears that deal will fall short at £ 35m because it failed to meet its targets there.
However, the move to Spain has gone much worse than expected for Coutinho, who has since been loaned to Bayern Munich and is now being told he can leave Barça with rates of just £ 75 million, almost half of what they paid. for him. He is one of the many stars prepared for the club, as they plan major changes this summer.
A change to Chelsea now appears to be underway. just don’t talk about the fare to a clearly outraged Gary Neville!
Coutinho’s dream would probably be to return to Liverpool, a club that apparently, I wish it was never gone, Although any return to Anfield seems highly unlikely, despite these kind comments from Klopp.
Now it is known that the German felt that Coutinho had cornered him when, in late 2017, the player made his wishes to go to Barcelona clear.
And revealing the advice he gave Klopp at the time, Ferguson He revealed: “I believe that solid management is crucial in this situation.
“Part of your job as a coach is also to educate the character of your players so that they have responsibility for what they are doing.
“Obviously, in some cases, that’s changing a little bit. It is disappointing because I am sure that, in the case of Liverpool, they did a very good job of making Coutinho the player he is today.
“So, it’s a little disappointing, but you have to deal with it and the transfer window doesn’t help in that situation.
“If it closed in July, Coutinho would have continued playing and would have left.” The matter would have ended.
“The recommendation we see is to close the window before the season starts, so everyone knows what players they have and they don’t expect to see what the first results will be.”
Klopp talks about Coutinho’s departure
Before Coutinho’s adventure turned sour, Klopp He said Barcelona’s persistent interest was simply too powerful to keep one of its star assets in Liverpool and he didn’t want to get in the way.
Speaking to Pure Soccer PodcastThe German boss said: “I really respected Phil’s change from the first second.
“Not that I do it all the time, but I really felt like ‘oh wow, that could be difficult.’
“So it’s not about itself, we signed a new contract just a few weeks before that, but it was really clear that I wouldn’t have been asked by any other club, but for this club there was no chance.”
“Then we had to be difficult 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. “
Coutinho He scored 41 goals in 152 appearances for Liverpool after the Reds captured him for just £ 8.5 million from Inter Milan in 2013.
Barcelona had previously visited him in the summer of 2017 and, although Liverpool remained firm on that occasion, it only seemed to be inevitably delayed.
When the move was finally made, Klopp said he had no ill will towards Coutinho and that he wanted to see the bigger picture.
“Phil was our boy for a long time,” said Klopp. “We highly respect him and wish him the best.
“That’s the way football should be. That’s the most important thing the club showed at the time.”
In other Liverpool news, two of the club’s current stars rejected the possibility of signing for Chelsea for exactly the same reason.
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