21 Mar 2017 09:54:37
I know this will go down like a lead balloon with some but £65 million for Coutinho. I would take all day long.

1.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 10:07:32
First and foremost. I don't see anyone paying that sum for him. Barcelona has money and Couts wouldn't go anywhere unless it Barca.

2.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 10:37:10
At the minute he's non existent so yeah I'd take that.

He's not a winger anyway so I'd take a good sum and buy a winger. Would put him in the middle at the expense of Gini, no way.

That's my 2penve worth.

3.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 10:59:40
Ko lo

No! He would play alongside Wiji and we should drop Lallana to the bench. Couts is head and shoulder above Lallana and precisely He is only second to Silva if deployed in the middle. Buy a winger and play Couts in the middle. Selling him will takes us back to the transitional mode again. He is one of the genuine class we have got with us.

4.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 11:15:22
And replace Coutinho with whom? Is there a player out there with his ability that will be worth the money we get for him? Who may that player be?

It is all fair and well selling him but does not mean we will be able to sign someone with equal quality taking into account that players like Sanchez prefer London over any other location in England. Top players have preferences and Liverpool football club is not the number one destination for world class players.

So then we can go sign Gotze who's career has gone down the pan and be saddled with an overpriced, bad attitude and hemorrhaging of the wage bill.

It is simple to say oh, £65m is reason to get rid of Coutinho when you cannot even provide a solution to replacing him!

Brandt for instance may be a top talent but is not going to walk into the first team straight away if we end up signing him and in no certain terms is at a level to replace Coutinho if he had to leave.

Ed002 in his last sharkopod made it know which attacking players we are interested in and those players could be improvements to the squad depth and first team but not going to be good enough to replace Coutinho straight away.

Get a grip.

5.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 11:24:30
The whole world tips him to be the successor of Iniesta and we play him at Neymar's position. No wonder he has struggled for consistency.

6.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 11:47:45
He is one of our best players, he just needs to be played in the right place, alongside good players, so he doesn't feel the need to try too hard and carry the team.

This bad run of form has affected all of the players negatively but it is clear to see which ones are not good enough. Couts is not one of them. Selling him unless we absolutely had to is a stupid idea.

7.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 11:56:34
Sorry but those saying we couldn't live without Coutinho are living in dream world. Yes he's been a phenomenal player for us but and its a big, but we have lived and survived without better players.

If we were going to utilise Cout's centrally then he'd yes he'd be hard to replace but as a winger then there are plenty of wingers better. One other thing is our knack of not replacing our players properly, if we would go and get a quality player to replace him then I may be happy letting him go but Torres, Carragher, Gerrard, Mascerano, Suarez, Alonso and probably plenty more examples of players we've sold only to replace them with bit part players, potential that may or may not come good.

If we replaced him properly, and I don't mean like for like necessarily bht may be a quality striker and a quality winger and giving Firmino a free role behind tge striker possibly then yeah I would be happy to get good money for him and let him go and live out his dream with Naymar at Barca.

8.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 12:01:07
I wouldn't drop lallana to the bench to play coutinho in the middle, coutinho doesn't have the workrate needed to replace lallana in this system, not by a county mile.
If you where to change the whole system and formation then maybe, but in the current formation and system? No way.

9.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 12:03:17
Doing so would merely contribute to our on going problems as a club which is selling our best players and failing to replace them with like-to-like quality. We sell Coutinho then buy who exactly? And if we're out of the CL who could we sign of comparative ability who would want to even join us? It's a ludicrous suggestion and would only end up weakening the first team.

10.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 12:26:06
Sorry said it for the last 2 season counts is far to inconsistent if we buy a striker then ferminho replaces him lalanna can replace him simple anything over 50 mil snap there hand off.

11.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 12:28:35
Mikey

By workrate you are referring to Running that Lallana does in the team. Phil is a pure genius on the ball. His vision and technique is world class. There is absolutely no comparisons over quality.

Moreover it's the same Coutinho who played in that midfield in 13/ 14 alongside Henderson and he was first class.

12.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 12:45:47
Clearly, sticking by a player during a rough patch is a dead virtue among LFC fans of today. Absolutely pathetic! Couts is going nowhere except Barcelona and even if someone came with 65m and he gets sold, how do you replace him if the player you want knows you are a selling club who can't keep its best players? And who do you replace him with, exactly? We saw what happened when we tried to replace Suarez. The money was wasted on dross for no reason.

You don't sell your best players and yet convince people that you are a top club. Arsenal have been doing that for years and now look how far they have fallen especially with the dreadful signings they've made. Coutinho's talent is well documented and has been very good for us even though he can always improve. It is disgraceful that some fans are kicking him when he's down and want him sold. Pathetic attitude, really.

13.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 12:56:50
He's just coming back from injury. There is a reason why he's being withdrawn after 70mins.

14.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 14:17:21
Last time we qualified for the Champions league we sold our talisman for a lot of money.
It didn't work out well.

If he puts in a transfer request, then he goes, otherwise we should keep our best players.

15.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 13:03:59
You as a club shouldn't be selling your first teamers instead you need to add quality over years and build a team around them. You should look to move out players who are not a part of first team, Starting from Sakho and Sturridge, also Can ( If he doesn't sign a contract extension)

What's the point in securing CL if you are selling your best payers?

Just turn the page around and ask Arssnal how they feel of loosing Sanchez.

16.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 14:06:28
I think you'll find it was Firmino who just came back from an injury. Coutinho has been back for 2 months. It just hasn't sunk in yet because he has been dreadful.

Clearly he is a great player. Potentially a world class attacking midfielder. However he is struggling right now and he will never be what we need as a left winger/ forward.

How can anyone say we couldn't replace Coutinho though? Forget the fancy feints, the curling shots and the cheeky passes. He is currently playing as a forward and therefore his job his to score or at the very least create goals. He has 6 goals (? ) this season. That is less than Lallana who has been poor for 3 months, less than Milner who plays left back, just 1 ahead of Wijnaldum who plays much deeper, and just 2 ahead of Can who hasn't been first choice for over half the campaign. How can you justify his position because "he is good to watch"?

He is not scoring enough goals, his set pieces are as appalling as the rest of the squad, and to be quite frank he doesn't even put in the effort that Firmino does to (in some respects) make up for his lack of end product.

Mane has twice as many goals as Coutinho, and he went to Africa for a month so let's not use the injury as an excuse. 6 goals is atrocious for a forward. It is even worse when you factor in that he scored 2 of those on the opening day of the season and hasn't got anywhere near that performance since.

Should we try to sell him? Of course not. He is still relatively young and clearly has world class potential as a playmaker. However, if Klopp doesn't see him as a centre attacking midfielder, then he is just an average left forward to us; who a team willing to accommodate him in midfield would pay handsomely for. Klopp needs funds to build a squad in his image and selling Coutinho could fund an entire overhaul with some good scouting. If Messi gets over his superiority complex, and Barcelona offer us £50m upwards, Liverpool is not in a position to reject that kind of money for a 25 game a season player who goes 4 months at a time without a goal.

Set up the team to play him in midfield or sell him to reinvest in weaker areas of the squad. It is that simple. I hope we do the former and Coutinho goes on to be a Liverpool legend. However I expect the latter.

17.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 14:27:08
We should not be selling our regular first teamers unless it's obvious they're not good enough - Coutinho may not be in his best position on LW (think he's better in midfield myself) but he's a top talent and still improving too.

We should really be looking to retain players like him and it's hard to replace regardless of money.

The one thing Klopp got right last summer was selling only players we didn't really need or play like Skrtel, Ibe, Allen, Benteke, Balotelli. likewise this season we should keep all our preferred first team and sell only those that aren't first choice (eg Sturridge, Leiva, Moreno, Markovic etc. ) to strengthen with 3-4 top players max.

{Ed002's Note - So why would players join knowing there is no chance of first team football. This makes no sense. If a club wants to bring in good and talented players in then there needs to be space made.}

18.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 15:22:52
I can see perhaps

1) a new CF brought in to compete with Firmino (playing Firmino in more defensive games and the CF as a different and complementary style of player where we need a finisher) - Sturridge clearly isn't trusted anymore
2) a winger to compete/ rotate with Coutinho or Mane because we look exposed when they're away/ injured and for all their talent the youngsters need another couple of Seasons
3) a FB to compete or rotate with Milner and possibly even a CB

That will strengthen the side substantially and allow us to rotate players as will be needed for Europe assuming we get there. Feel there should be plenty of games to allow first team Football for the above while any other rotation (cup games/ injuries) could be done from the youngsters we already have.

{Ed002's Note - Klopp does not change his style nor does he rotate players except for the league cup type games.}

19.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 16:22:50
I honestly don't know if id accept £65 million for Coutinho i like the lad so im biased towards keeping him. BUT anyone whom says the club can't survive without a player is absolutely nuts as long as he replaced yes it might affect short term but if right player purchased our club and any club moves on.
actually as im writing this an interview i seen or read about jumps to mind when the liverpool fans where so down because keegan was going to hamburg and paisley says not to worry we got a wee lad coming from scotland. Well we all know whom that was, if klopp could pull a signing off like that id sell him for %65 million gladly but the transfer market is a gamble no matter who you buy and sell.

20.) 22 Mar 2017
22 Mar 2017 12:51:40
Bruffio, the question is not whether the club can survive without Couts. We sold Suarez YET we are still here. The issue is that you can't want to compete and attract good players by selling your best players. It makes no sense and it is sending the right message. We sold Suarez. We tried to get Sanchez and offered more in transfer fees and wages than Arsenal did. If you think Sanchez did not look at us and say, "they just sold their best player. Who's next? Who am I going to play with? Balotelli and Lambert? No thanks". And we all know how dreadful that season and half of the next went for us. Klopp has come in and ridden the ship to the point that if we get CL this season, we may be able to attract good players cos not only can we keep our best, we will be able to get more good players in cos we have a well-respected manager known all over Europe as a winner who plays devastating football and terrorized Europe with his Dortmund side not too long ago.