Coutinho celebrates his goal

FIRST GOAL OF THE SEASON

Coutinho, still in debt despite scoring against Arsenal

Published:18/02/2023 - 18:28h

Updated:18/02/2023 - 18:28h

Despite not being able to avoid the defeat against Arsenal, Philippe Coutinho has finally been able to rediscover himself with the goal and right in front of the leader of the standings. The Brazilian must keep up the pace to redeem himself, with Barça very attentive

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After they circulated several rumours on his possible exit of the Aston Villa in the wintry market of passes, Philippe Coutinho has given signals of improvement when marking in front of the leader of the Premier League, the Arsenal, in a party in which the Aston Villa could not avoid be goleado home by a conclusive 2-4 in favour of the directed by Mikel Arteta. This target could have been only the first step of the Brazilian to redeem .

In all the parties that has contested during the season to date, the extreme had not signed goals neither delivered assistances, a situation that kept him in the eye of the criticisms, clear signals to be very far of his best moment, that that carried to the directive of the FC Barcelona to disburse the greater quantity of money in his history by the contracting of a footballer, that finally would not finish justifying the investment.

Although his start of season with the 'villans' was promising, the goals followed taking in arriving and the English team lost the patience after having paid 20 million euros to the Barça to do with the property of his index card. The last stretch of the past campaign was ilusionante with regard to the current course, but eventualmente would finish for turning off and go back to live the bajón that has marked him in the last years.

In spite of not being an excessively high quantity, taking in account the prices that handle at present in the market of signings, the Barcelona did not see greater problems in selling him by 20 'kilos', an enormous loss treating of a player by which the culés disbursed 135 million euros to bring him from the rows of the Liverpool. Now, in his return to the Premier seems to have light at the end of the tunnel, but still subtracts him a lot for doing.

The Barça, attentive to Coutinho

Although the Brazilian already has left to be player of the Barcelona team, in the agreement of his traspaso to the Aston Villa appears a clause that would allow him to the Barcelona ingresar to his arks the 50 % on a future sale, by what if his value continues increasing and the English team decides to put him in the shop window, the Catalan entity would be minimising a bit more the impact of the losses left previously.

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