Day of Kings: Today, it does a year, the Barça fichó to Philippe Coutinho

There are signings that happen unobserved, and others that happen to the posterity. The one of Philippe Coutinho could englobarse in the second section, when having been up to now the most expensive signing of the history of the FC Barcelona after the 120 million fixed euros that decided to pay the group culé to the Liverpool, in addition to 40 'kilos' more in variables that still have not finished to credit of the all, but that they could finish elevating the total cost of the operation until the 160 millions, without explaining the wage of the footballer -one of the more heights of the staff-.

Philippe Coutinho landed in the Camp Nou today does just a year, on 6 January 2018, and did it with an aureole of star that still keeps, although his performance was not being the wished by the barcelonismo -neither by the player- from does months. To the 20 hours of the afternoon of 6 January 2018, the Barça launched a communiqué in which it gave by official the signing of Coutinho.

With an agreement until 2023 and a clause of 400 million euros, the Brazilian turned into the gift of Kings of the barcelonismo, that player to the one who the Barcelona had treated of fichar without success some months before, in summer, and that finally had achieved to abandon Anfield Road for recalar in the Camp Nou, after some negotiations that produced him a considerable emotional stress.

The signing began to bake in the month of July, with the FC Barcelona of turn North American and a Neymar Jr that still had not closed his course to Paris Saint-Germain. The agents of Coutinho, Kia Joorabchian and Giuliano Bertolucci, gathered with the cúpula of the FC Barcelona to the hour to negotiate the signings: the then technical secretary, Robert Fernández, the agent of the Barça in Sudamérica, André Cury, the director of football, Raül Sanllehí, and the then director of professional sports, Albert Soler.

Agreed to the agreement between Barcelona and Coutinho, the Liverpool and the group culé played to the cat and to the mouse during some weeks, with the culés launching offers that never were accepted from Anfield. In the meantime, Neymar Jr confirmed his course to the PSG, and that was the turning point so that the Barça accelerated the arrivals of Coutinho and of Ousmane Dembélé, that went the first of the two in arriving.

The Liverpool refused until three offers of the Barça, and finally the player asked the 'transfer request' to try force his exit. No surtió effect, and to the term of the market of signings of summer, Coutinho had to remain in the Livepool six months more in which it acted with professionalism, playing and marking goals dressed with the T-shirt 'network'.

The desliz of 'Nike' almost brakes the signing of Coutinho

In spite of everything, the Barça followed working to approach postures with the Liverpool until fraguar the agreement to finals of December of 2017. An indiscretion of 'Nike', that on 31 December published -and afterwards erased- a campaign in which it encouraged to the 'fans' of the Barça to stamp in the T-shirt the name of Coutinho, was about to to brake the signing because of the get angry of the Liverpool.

Luckily, the desliz with the 'reds' finish solving, and Coutinho fichó by the FC Barcelona turning into one of the most expensive signings and mediáticos of the history. It left 10 goals in his first season like Barcelona, and this campaign has marked 5 more, one of them in the 5-1 of the Classical against the Real Madrid in the Camp Nou. In spite of not being surrendering as it expected from does months, a thing is clear: has all the necessary to finish triumphing with the elastic of the FC Barcelona.