After playing the first 19 rounds of la Liga, Barca only has 8 wins, 7 draws and 4 losses, ranking 5th in the table, only 31 points, and there is a 15-point gap with Real Madrid at the top of the table, and the title competition this season is basically hopeless. The current situation is not good, but the future is still beautiful, Barça has a group of excellent talented new stars, as long as Xavi fully realize their potential this season, the new season will soon be back on track, if the development is smooth, Barça may once again join the la Liga and Champions League titles.
While focusing on tapping the potential of young players, Barca also need to get rid of the high salary pressure in the team as soon as possible, and the performance of many players is seriously inconsistent with the high annual salary, typical of which is Coutinho, who is the historical king of Barca team, has become a "big parallel cargo". He joined Barca in January 2018 for a transfer fee of 135 million euros, setting the highest transfer fee in Barça's history and becoming barca's standard king, but did not play his due value, scoring 25 goals and assisting 15 times in 106 appearances in 4 years, far below Barca's expectations.
According to the latest issue of the "German transfer" value information, Coutinho has become the player with the most serious contraction in the past four years, and his current transfer value is only 18 million euros, a shrinkage of 117 million euros, becoming one of the biggest defeats in Barca's history. What hit Barca even harder is that the bidder can't get rid of it after becoming a parallel cargo, because his contract with Barca does not expire until June 2023, and Coutinho will obviously not easily interrupt this high-paying contract.
Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of Coutinho's transfer to Barca, Andeba is accelerating Coutinho's transfer, but it can only be a loan, and Coutinho will continue to receive a high salary that does not match the status, after he was loaned out by Barca once, on loan to Bayern from August 2019 to August 2020, scoring 11 goals and assisting 14 times in 39 games in a single season. On the occasion of the fourth anniversary of joining Barca, Coutinho is close to joining the Premier League team Aston Villa on loan, these two days, a number of European media reporters pointed out that Coutinho is very close to being loaned to Aston Villa, and there is only a difference in transactions at present, because Villa will not bear Coutinho's high annual salary, only willing to bear about 60% of the annual salary.
Well-known journalist Romano revealed that Barca and Villa continued to negotiate a loan deal for Coutinho today, and the two teams will discuss the optional buyout clause, and there will be no mandatory buyout. As for the remuneration payment plan, the two teams have not yet finalized. Obviously, Coutinho still holds the big contract with Barca and will not permanently transfer to other teams before the contract expires, which is quite certain of Barca. In fact, Barca also have a number of players with high transfer fees and high salaries, but their performances are not worthy of this salary, including Dembele and the previous Griezmann, whose transfer fees are comparable to Coutinho, and they have not shown the expected state and ability in Barca. I have to say that in recent years, Barça has become the "wronged head of the transfer market".