On 6 January 2018 the FC Barcelona closed the most expensive signing of his history. 120 million euros paid Josep Bartomeu, then president blaugrana, to the Liverpool by the traspaso of Philippe Coutinho, the '10' of the 'reds'. Jurgen Klopp treated to convince him to remain in Anfield, but the Brazilian did not doubt in empacar course to the Camp Nou in the half of a season where the Liverpool would arrive to the final of the Champions League, while the group culé would finish winning the domestic doublet (League and Glass).
After a first irregular semester, Coutinho showed his best version with the T-shirt of the Barcelona to beginnings of the season 2018-2019. Ernesto Valverde considered him fixed in his eleven, with good performances in October in front of the Tottenham (annotated his first goal in League of Champions with the Barça in the 2-4 in Wembley) and Real Madrid (annotated the first in the goleada 5-1 in Camp Nou).
From then, the Brazilian was losing leadership in the season remembered by the fateful night in Anfield (4-0) where the culés remained outside of the Champions. Coutinho Was headline and hardly went in at stake, being substituted to the 60 minutes with the party already 3-0. In August of 2019, the '7' left yielded to the Bayern Munich by a season, with option to purchase.
In his first stage in the club, the one of Rio de Janeiro added 21 goals and 11 assistances in 76 parties, statistics no so bad, but very far of the performance expected by the directive and the fans. Coutinho Never arrived to consolidate in the team of Valverde and left by the rear door, looking for recover the continuity and the leadership in Germany.
The infamous doublet in Lisbon and the turn to the club
Philippe received the T-shirt number 10 in his arrival to Munich. However, the beginning of season of the Bayern was turbulent, with the dismissal of Niko Kovac in November and, after the arrival of Hansi Flick, the midfield player was usual spare all the course, contributing with 11 goals and 9 assistances in 37 apparitions so that the Bayern won his second triplete of the history.
The climax of that season, marked by the pandemia, arrived on 22 August 2020, three days before fulfilling a year in Germany. Coutinho ingresó In the minute 75 to round the licking of the Bayern to the Barça, with two goals and a sistencia that consummated the historical 8-2 in Lisbon, when the Brazilian already knew that the Bayern would not exert the option of purchase. The '10' also had minutes in the final of Champions in front of the PSG (1-0), before returning to Barcelona.
In his turn to the Camp Nou, Coutinho grieve played 14 parties in the season 2020-2021, with 3 goals and a pair of assistances. lesionó On 30 December 2020 in the 1-1 in front of the Eibar and was 258 days of drop. After a first-half of similar course to the previous, and with the arrivals of Dani Alves and Ferrán Torres, the club did not have more remedy that look for him gone out to go down mass salarial and free a contingent in the staff.
The nightmare still does not finish
The agreement of Coutinho finalises around the middle of 2023, by which will have to return to the Camp Nou in July, if the Aston Villa does not exert the option of purchase. Four years ago the Brazilian cost 120 millions, that add some 135 net with the variables. Today, his value of market round the 18 millions. Worse could not go out the things with the one of Rio de Janeiro.