On January 6, Beijing time, the Spanish media "World Sports" disclosed that Coutinho left Barca to enter the final stage, and Aston Villa was close to loaning him, completing the official announcement this day and tomorrow.
Exactly four years ago, Coutinho joined Barca with a floating clause of 120 million euros + 40 million euros in the history of Barca club and La Liga. At the time, Coutinho had high hopes. However, in the past 3 years, Barca have been struggling in Coutinho and have performed badly.
This year is the year of the World Cup, and Coutinho does not want to waste his youth at Barca, he is eager to leave the team, and Barca agreed. Coutinho's goal is to get back in form and become the main player of samba's army at this year's World Cup in Qatar.
Now, because aston Villa manager is Gerrard, who came out and finalized Coutinho's transfer. After all, Gerrard is a Liverpool legend, and Coutinho is a world-class star who played in Liverpool. As of now, Aston Villa are 13th in the Premier League and aim for relegation this season.
Prior to joining Liverpool, Coutinho performed equally badly at Inter Milan, eventually joining Liverpool for a transfer fee of €10 million. From 2013 to 2018, Coutinho played at a high level at Liverpool, eventually moving to Barca for a transfer fee of 160 million euros, doubling his value by 16 times!
This season, Coutinho has played 16 times at Barca, scoring 2 goals and without assists.
Coutinho is only 29 years old and he hopes to resume a second spring. At present, Coutinho is worth only 18 million euros in the transfer market!
In addition, Barca also hope that Coutinho will leave the team as soon as possible, and Laporta's goal is to win Haaland, but it costs up to 350 million euros, Barca need to free up salary space, and Haaland will have an annual salary of around 30 million euros if he comes to Barca.
Coutinho is the closest to leaving, and Barca are also struggling to send Luc De Jong and Demir away. And Umtiti and Dembele, the two French stars, are thorns, and it is difficult to send them away.