Like this it was the last negotiation of the Barça for fichar to Coutinho

The intention of fichar to Coutinho to reinforce the medullary of the FC Barcelona lasted to the Barcelona club from principles of August until the same day of the closing of the market of signings in England, on 1 September. During all the month the Barcelona tried it everything to negotiate with the club 'network' a price of exit of the player, but from Anfield denied in rotundo not even to speak.

The day 1 September, although Valverde was happy with the staff and of the six points attained in the two first days, the technician extremeño asked to the Barcelona if it fit the possibility to give a touch more than quality to the team, and is thus that tried to the end the contracting of the young and talentoso Brazilian midfield player.

The day 1, in the afternoon and the night, the heavy weights of the directive and the technical office of the Barça gathered in the dispatch of the CEO of the club, Óscar Grau. The newspaper 'MD' ensures that here they were present the president Josep Maria Bartomeu -that to last hour would leave by a commitment-, Jordi Mestre like sportive vice-president, Óscar Grau, Albert Soler like director of professional sports, Pep Safe like mánager of football, Robert Fernández like technical secretary of the first team, Raúl Sanllehí like director of football, André Cury like representative of the Barça in Brazil and, finally, the boss of the juridical services Román Gómez-Ponti.

Along the afternoon knew that the Liverpool was had to keep a last conversation with the Barça by Coutinho, conscious the 'reds' that the culés had already the rope to the neck. Raül Sanllehí Was the attendant to speak in English with Kia Joorabchian, intermediary between the directive of the Liverpool and the one of the Barça, but the words of the agent of Coutinho did not like to the blaugrana.

The Liverpool tried to take advantage of of the FC Barcelona

And it is that, on request of the Liverpool, Joorabchian ensured to the FC Barcelona that Coutinho would not leave Anfield by a lower price to 200 million euros, an authentic madness that desarticuló completely the possibility to see to the Brazilian dressed of Barcelona in the short term. Shortly after the PSG descolgó also asking 80 millions by Gave María, what carried to the Barça to hang definitively the telephone to the 22.15 hours of the night.

At the end, in spite of that Robert Fernández there was ilusionado during the presentation of Dembélé when ensuring that it expected the arrival of one or two players more, the true is that it did not finish arriving any footballer more. And, for the moment, neither it foresees that the situation change in winter.