Liverpool tell Barcelona Coutinho price tag
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According to Mundo Deportivo, negotiations are well underway and it now seems inevitable that the ex-Inter trequartista will play for the Blaugrana in 2018. However, thanks to the misunderstanding whereby Nike published an announcement of Coutinho’s transfer, the Merseyside club are looking for a larger fee than €110 plus a further €40 million in variables.
Meanwhile, Manuel Lanzini (West Ham United), Thomas Lemar (Monaco), Julian Draxler (Paris Saint-Germain), Gelson Martins (Sporting CP) and Nabil Fekir (Lyon) are all considered potential candidates to fill Coutinho’s boots during the second half of the season.
Coutinho’s departure is now a mere matter of time, and the search is well and truly on to provide Jürgen Klopp with an extra spark of creativity.