Barcelona's midfielder Coutinho has not had a good time since leaving Liverpool – even when he fulfilled his Champions League dream with Bayern Munich last year.
This season, Coutinho's form is even more visible decline, although this season has played 16 games for Barcelona, but only 2 goals have been scored, it is difficult to associate with his original transfer fee of 145 million euros.
Recently, it was reported by the Spanish media "Daily Sports" that Coutinho was about to be sold by Barcelona coach Xavi. In the article of the Daily Sports newspaper, it was pointed out that the reason why Barcelona is eager to sell Coutinho in the upcoming winter window is mainly to free up a part of the salary space to sign some instant players, after all, Coutinho's current state is really difficult to provoke the beams of Barca in the post-Messi era.
In fact, the marriage between Ku bird and Barca was still very expected at the beginning. In the first half of the season in La Liga, the Brazilian had a great performance, and his breakthrough tandem in the front field brought a long-lost sense of agility to the elderly Barca midfield. In addition, a surprise arrow through the clouds has become a major weapon to break the balance of power on the field. In the second half of the 17-18 season, Coutinho scored eight goals and provided five assists in just 18 appearances. While conquering camp Nou with a perfect performance, it also made fans look forward to his next season.
However, the reality soon hit the face, in the case of Iniesta retiring and Dembele is not yet mature, Coutinho can not only be used as a surprise soldier, but to lead Barca's midfield, at this time his technical shortcomings and birth defects began to appear. Playing left midfielder without Iniesta's protection and vision, playing as a winger without Neymar's speed and skill, trying to cut through the cloud arrows, but found that the ribs were Messi's exclusive position. More importantly, without the stars of the Liverpool era, Coutinho's 0 role in the defensive end began to be criticized by more and more people, coupled with his high transfer fees and salaries, so the dissatisfaction was rampant. Finally, Coutinho followed in Ronaldo's footsteps and moved to Bavaria.
At Bayern, Coutinho had a highlight, such as 3 goals and 2 assists against Bremen, and 2 goals and 1 assist against his old club Barca. But more often than not, it's sitting on the bench to witness mueller and Gnabry playing. Even if it returns to Barcelona, there is still no sign of recovery.
With the transfer of Messi this season, it is reasonable to say that Coutinho's opportunities will definitely increase, but Mr. Billion's play is still sluggish, which can no longer be said that the "Mei Ball King" has limited the play of Ku bird, and it can only be absolutely insufficient. Another reason is that Klopp is the epitome of simple football, the German requires the team to quickly pass through the midfield and hit the ball as far as possible to the dangerous area of the opponent, thus liberating Coutinho, Coutinho does not like to take over, only let the ball hit the front of the opponent's penalty area as much as possible to make Coutinho play a role.
Coutinho is not a midfielder suitable to participate in the organization, he came to Europe after the average number of passes per game is basically around 45 feet, and Iniesta's years at Barca, the average number of passes per game is also 50 feet, and his peak period is as high as 90 feet. You should know that both Barça and Bayern are teams with absolute possession, but in such a system, his number of passes is indeed very average, which shows that his offensive participation is not high and he does not integrate well into the team.
And look at the old club Liverpool, the Reds who lost Coutinho not only did not decline, but used the transfer fee of cashing out the cash out of the cash out of the Coutinho to continuously eat Alisson, Fabinho and other strong reinforcements, and won four top championships in the past four years, and this season is in a hot state, not only attacking firepower to crown the entire European continent, but also advancing to the Round of 16 of the Champions League with a complete victory in the Champions League group stage. Liverpool's new attacking core Salah is even more "short-lived", and the current performance of this season is even more revered as "the world's first man".
In fact, Barca brought in Coutinho not in the hope that he could replace Neymar, but that he could take on the deadly pass at the front of the penalty area as Iniesta's successor. But, alas, Coutinho can't do that, he's more of an attacker. Originally, I wanted him to become the next little white, but what he was not good at was what little white was good at - finding vacancies for Messi and increasing control for the midfield.
So, the Liverpool hierarchy made the most correct choice between Coutinho and the team, and after Coutinho left Liverpool, it was a tragedy. (Of course, if you think Coutinho has all kinds of championships, a high salary, and is a winner in life, that's also true)