re: tOfficial Liverpool 2017/2018 Thread: “Upgrades Incoming Edition: A Great Season!”

Not that I believe Bleacher Report, but there is an article or two over there saying Coutinho has agreed terms with Barcelona after they made an improved bid.

If Kyle Walker and Raheem Serling's value is 50M, Coutinho is well above 100M. Barca need to frick off with this lowball shite. I don't want to sell him at all, but if it must happen, it better be for fricking crazy, stupid money.

I don't think we'll sell him this window... maybe next summer, but not this one. We'll have a year to identify and recruit a replacement..

Granted, if someone comes with an insane amount of money.. all bets are off. I don't see anyone going much past what's already been thrown out there though...

Barca mouthpieces are claiming Couts has put in a transfer request. Which would pretty much go against everything we know about him and his personality. So I'm inclined to believe the report is bullshite.

This needs to be FSG/Klopp then:

Yeah he called Keita's hometown a village. Well, jokes on him, as Keita is from Conakry, the capital of Guinea. Population of 2 million+, but more importantly larger than Leipzig

Every single one of them Coutinho rumors is from a Barca mouthpiece. It's standard Barca MO really. I fooking hate them (just a tiny little bit less than the mancs). With their standard "Barca DNA" BS. They've already tried this shite with Bellerin and Veratti this window. I hope we actually string em along and then shut the fricking window on their face.

On Keita, I still dunno. The Red Bull owner (Mateschitz) is a proper narcissist and Rangnick is well known in Germany to be a hard man with the charm of a boiled potato. So we shall see.

This may be an unpopular position but, *especially* if we can tear Keita away from Leipzig, if Phil truly has his heart set on Barca and they're willing to pony up 120M or more, I say set him free then.

Let him go.

On any team I've ever been a fan of, I've always been of the position that if you don't want to be here, then I damn sure don't want you here.

Stay with Liverpool and be part of building something special under one of the best managers in the game or go to your "dream" club and play with your friends under a new manager.

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

I'm not 100% sure he has his heart set on Barca... I mean lets look at where these reports are coming from, 100% of them are Barca-centric outlets.

I agree on the principle of "If you don't want to be here, then gtfo"... Just not sure that it applies here

I agree in theory... but I wouldn't let him go this summer without a replacement lined up (in addition to Keita).. to be, next summer he could go (if he wants)..

Last time we let our super star go while qualifying, we ended up replacing Suarez with Lallana and Balotelli and got bounced out of UCL in the group stages..

edit: All that said, I think we need to convince him that's the right move... Play UCL with us and help our stability and you can go next summer, provided Barca meets our valuation..