VaLVERDE WANTS TO RECOVER HIM
They announce a meeting between Valverde and Coutinho: it needs to the Brazilian to tope
Published:28/01/2019 - 16:59h
Updated:28/01/2019 - 17:05h
Philippe Coutinho is not to good level during the last parties. The Brazilian midfield player does not seem neither the shadow of this player determinant of the past campaign. Ernesto Valverde wants to recover his best version, since it considers him key
Around the middle of the past season, recently more than a year, Philippe Coutinho turned into the most expensive signing of the history of the FC Barcelona. The Brazilian midfield player arrived pertinent of the Liverpool with an inmejorable poster and during his first months in the Camp Nou turned into an essential footballer, so much by his goals as by his quality.
The problem arrived in the present campaign. The Brazilian began like titling indisputable in the position of left interior, but Ernesto Valverde, fed up of the intermittence of Ousmane Dembélé in the forward and of the fault of consistency of the centre of the field, advanced the position of Coutinho and bet by Arthur in the medullary. The performance of the carioca waned until losing the place.
With the injury of a Dembélé emergent, Coutinho has gone back to the titularity, but his performance has gone down considerably, seeing to a player without confidence and very errático in all what tries. The Txingurri knows the important that is to recover to a footballer of his quality and, according to the informations of Sport, has planned a meeting with him to treat the subject.
What is clear is that the talent is innate and that a footballer does not forget to play to the football of a day for another. His quality is here and only does lacking to give with the correct key to see again him in his best state of form. Especially, to win the Champions League, the FC Barcelona needs him to the one hundred by one hundred.
Valverde Defends him
In spite of the evident deterioration in the game of Philippe Coutinho, Ernesto Valverde always has defended to the Brazilian in the press conferences. It considers him a very important player for the team and, also like part of this process of recovery, supports him publicly so that it know that it goes in in his plans.
"What likes me of him is that always it dares and always confronts on the contrary. It can be more or less hit. At the end they are the forwards those that are for the one against one. It has had options and that remain only against the goalkeeper is very good. That today has not converted them? Already it will do it", it said Valverde, after the Girona-Barcelona.
