The OFFICIAL Liverpool FC thread - #DankeJürgen

[Minder]

Looks like Coutinho wants to blow town. Can Liverpool hold on to him?

Nah

[SHEEDY]

Virgil van dijk hands in transfer request at saints. Between liverpool and chelsea to sign him I reckon. Chelsea probably favourites to land him.

[laoislad]

Looks like Coutinho wants to blow town. Can Liverpool hold on to him?

Nah

If he wants to go let him go.

[J70]

Van Dijk has handed in a transfer request.

I'm assuming that opens the door for Liverpool to make a (legal) approach?

On Coutinho, I'll be surprised if he doesn't go, especially if he is personally very keen on the idea. After all, FSG's stated modus operandi on taking over the club was to buy relatively cheap, promising players and sell them on at a profit. They've done it with Suarez and Sterling. Coutinho would be the crowning achievement of that approach, having been bought for only 8 million.

However, one would hope that they'd want to take the step to the next level now, having finally managed to scrape back into the Champions League? Given how cutthroat the race for a top four spot is now, allowing one of your most important players to leave, with three weeks left in the transfer window,  would not be a good indicator of their intentions. Whatever they decide, I hope its done this week. No point in dragging this out.

[StGallsGAA]

Virgil van dijk hands in transfer request at saints. Between liverpool and chelsea to sign him I reckon. Chelsea probably favourites to land him.

Let's sit back and count how many times Liverpool can f**k things up in one transfer window 

[heganboy]

Let's sit back and count how many times Liverpool can f**k things up in one transfer window 

oh God, please don't, that would be hard to take

[mackers]

Jamie Carragher had plenty to say about Coutinho last night on Sky.  He seemed to think he would give Liverpool another year.  He reckons that Coutinho shouldn't be looked upon as a replacement for Neymar as he's not a similar player.  Barcelona should look at him as a replacement for Iniesta (who is giving Barcelona another year apparently) who he reckoned Coutinho is similar to. Made sense to me anyway!

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Barcelona have reached an agreement with Liverpool to sign Philippe Coutinho after the Brazilian put pressure on the Premier League club to let him leave, sources close to the Catalan club told ESPN Deportes' Jordi Blanco.

Coutinho is set to join Barca for a base fee of €90 million (£81.6m), with bonuses that could bring the deal to €120m (£108.8m), as the Catalan club begin to spend the €222m they received from Paris Saint-Germain for Neymar last week.

A delegation from Barcelona headed up by chief executive Oscar Grau travelled to Liverpool on Monday night to finalise the negotiation, sources said.

The Brazilian midfielder told Liverpool earlier in the day that he wanted to leave and join Barcelona, sources close to the player have told ESPN Brasil.

[brokencrossbar1]

ESPN Brazil wouldn't be the most reliable!!

[gawa316]

Melissa Reddy‏Verified account @MelissaReddy_  5h5 hours ago
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A reminder of #LFC's stance on Phil Coutinho this summer:
"Not for sale"
"No other interpretation of that"
Barca "can save their energy"

[heganboy]

there's a lot of smoke here...

Is there a fire?

[gawa316]

there's a lot of smoke here...

Is there a fire?

Barca and their propaganda wagon are doing their best to stir up shit. I would be taking the word of Melissa Reddy over any brazilian, catalan source, any day.

[laoislad]

I think we all know if he doesn't go this summer he will go next summer. I'd hate to see him go, but if they can buy a couple of suitable replacments before the transfer window shuts and if he really wants to go then I say let him off.
You can't blame him to be fair.
If he goes and they have no one lined up to replace him there will be war I'd imagine.

[blewuporstuffed]

The main issue with letting him go now, is how do you replace him?
There arent many options out there.

[laoislad]

there's a lot of smoke here...

Is there a fire?

Barca and their propaganda wagon are doing their best to stir up shit. I would be taking the word of Melissa Reddy over any brazilian, catalan source, any day.

I would believe everything Melissa Reddy says