Philippe Coutinho continues in Brazil recovering from the injury that On December 30, he removed him from the playing fields and that it took much longer than Barça’s medical services expected. The most expensive signing in the history of Barça It seems that he will have a new opportunity at the Camp Nou because at the Blaugrana club they begin to get used to the idea that no one is going to bid for him. Not even in the assignment format for which two seasons ago he played for Bayern Munich, team with which he won the Champions League.
In a match against Eibar, Coutinho suffered an injury to the external meniscus of his left leg and it was operated at the beginning of January in Brazil. Later, due to the slowness in the recovery process that caused him pain, moved to Qatar and since the evolution continued to be unsatisfactory, returned to Brazil to undergo surgery again in a desperate attempt to reach the Copa América that did not work.
Coutinho has played this season only twelve games with Barcelona, in which he scored two goals. With this recent service sheet, it is no wonder that there are not too many teams interested in your services.
What’s more, as announced in its Thursday edition of L’Esportiu, The club’s technical secretariat already takes it for granted that no offers will come for the Brazilian and that he will have to play with Barça this season.
Between which player is one of the highest earners of the squad and which does not seem willing to change equipment losing purchasing power and that there are about 50 million euros to pay off his transfer, the options that he can be transferred, even to england, where he maintains a good poster, they are very rare.
It doesn’t seem viable either a loan like the one that Barcelona agreed to with Bayern Munich two seasons ago. On that occasion, the German team took over the player’s file and paid 8.5 million euros for the loan to Barcelona. To this day, with the economic crisis caused by the pandemic, it does not seem that there is anyone willing to embark on an adventure of this caliber.
When he took over the team last season, Koeman publicly showed his confidence in Coutinho, of whom he said was a player to recover. In fact, the Brazilian was a starter in the first lineups of the Dutch and the season did not start badly, but it quickly deflated until at the end of the year he suffered a meniscus injury that has left him in dry dock for six months.