Philippe Coutinho arrived to the FC Barcelona after some hard negotiations carried out by the Barcelona entity with the Liverpool, previous club of the Brazilian player. The managerial culé decided to cover the operation in January and not expecting to do it in summer in spite of that the Brazilian can not play in the Champions League for having it done with the Liverpool. Everything by a clear reason.
The technical office considered that the arrival of Philippe Coutinho would be a key factor to treat to conquer the two national titles: the Glass of Rey and the League Santander. The fatigue of the players is something unavoidable during the season, by what do arrive to a player of so much quality in winter supposes to give him to the team a blow of cool air to a team that was enrachado, but to the that came him well an offensive reinforcement.
Coutinho, a man with goal
Curiously, in the last press conference of Ernesto Valverde, to the technician asked after him Paulinho but, instintivamente, took out the subject of Philippe Coutinho: "it Is truth that there are players like Paulinho that carry time without marking, but is Coutinho that is arriving to the area and generating danger. It can be a goleador more in the team. Listening the questions seems that have a lot of things of which concern me, but think that are not so bad".
It is clear that Philippe Coutinho does not see only like a playmaker and a player of 'profile Iniesta'. With the Liverpool, attained to reach more than a ten of goals during his three last seasons as 'network'. In hardly the first three months of the present campaign, the Brazilian achieved to annotate 12 so many with the group of Anfield.
It is by this reason that the technicians see to Philippe Coutinho like an important player for desatascar split in which it need this extra dose of imagination and creativity. The big demonstration is in the semifinals of Glass of the King against Valencia, in which Philippe Coutinho marked a so much decisive going out from the bench. Like llegador from second line and like far fencer, is almost so effective as in the preparation of game.
Valverde Already sees him in the eleven of gala
The FC Barcelona played an important part of the season in the last duel contested in the Camp Nou against the Athletic of Madrid. Ernesto Valverde, by this reason, was forced to take out to his best alignment to face up to the team colchonero, that was tightening to treat to reduce the difference of points with the Barcelona team. The Txingurri did not have doubts: it bet by Coutinho of headline and the Brazilian did not defraud, with a big performance.
The fact of fichar to Coutinho in January will give him to the Brazilian a margin of several months to adapt to the philosophy of Barcelona game and be totally integrated of face to the season that comes. However, if we look his last performances, the Brazilian seems that it already has assimilated the concepts of game and that already is prepared to have chevrons in the team.