The low level showed by Philippe Coutinho in his second season in the FC Barcelona has done that in the Barcelona club see necessary his sale, so much to generate income for costly signings -mainly the ones of Matthijs of Ligt or Antoine Griezmann- as to save the 25 million euros in variables that still remain for paying him to the Liverpool.
Chelsea discerns like the club that has more interest in fichar to the carioca since this summer will lose to Eden Hazard, that has it done with the Real Madrid. The club 'blue' would see in Coutinho the ideal spare of the Belgian attacker and the last pertinent informations of the British press auguran an astronomical offer of the londinenses to carry it.
According to desvela the English newspaper Metre, Chelsea would be had to break the banking for fichar to Coutinho with an offer of 158 million euros to the FC Barcelona. The club londinense would take advantage of the money ingresado with the sale of Hazard to carry to the Brazilian with the idea to strengthen to the team so that it go back to be competitive in Champions League, after the achievement of the Europe League in the present season.
If the informations are some, the FC Barcelona even would make money with the operation, since to day of today carries paid 135 millions between fixed part and variable. Coutinho Is very seen by Chelsea since it was the big star of the Liverpool and would adapt easily to the style of game of the Premier League, competition in which it shined as 'network'.
What Coutinho showed in the English football little has to see with which has offered in the Camp Nou, since in Anfield marked 54 goals and delivered 43 assistances in his 201 parties contested. The figures speak in case alone and in Stamford Bridge would consider him a perfect reinforcement to face the season in which Chelsea will return to the European elite.
Chelsea depends of the TAS for fichar
To all this, it is necessary to add that Chelsea has a problem: the sanction imposed by the FIFA that would not allow them fichar during the two next windows of traspasos, in a punishment for signing to lower players of 18 years. By the moment, the first resource has not prospered and, to day of today, a hypothetical cautelar of the TAS would be the only hope of Chelsea to buy to Coutinho.