09 Aug 2017 15:32:58
Rumour round Anfield from one of the academy boys so maybe taken with a pinch of salt.
Coutinhio will NOT be leaving unless he forces the deal. However, if this is the case Mahrez will be the man we look to, not Lanzini.
IMO £100m profit from coutinhio, who has tendencies to go missing in games and replacement of last years player of the year wouldn't be terrible.


1.) 09 Aug 2017
09 Aug 2017 15:50:43
So you want to replace a player who in your opinion goes missing in some games with a player who goes missing for whole seasons?


2.) 09 Aug 2017
09 Aug 2017 15:51:35
Mahrez was woeful at times last season and went missing an awful lot more than Coutinho did. Plus he is a winger.

If Pip does go I would want to go for a world class striker or central midfielder.

I would move heaven and earth to try and sign Alli, Vidal, Lewandowski, Mbappe or Griezmann.

All of which are likely not possible (Eds can you confirm? ) in which case I would stick with what we have and look again in January/ next summer.


3.) 09 Aug 2017
09 Aug 2017 15:59:23
I would take Mahrez. But don't think it will be true.


4.) 09 Aug 2017
09 Aug 2017 16:10:23
Coutinho is world class. Barcelona are not desperate to spend 100 million for a player who goes missing. He's our best player and losing him with 3 days until we kick off our season would be indeed terrible. There is nothing good to come from losing Coutinho this transfer window, not 100 mill, Mahrez, Lanzini. nothing. I get it, it's moral and credible to look for positives and claim he isn't irreplaceable, but losing Coutinho would be a disaster for this seasons campaign. We will be right back to square one, a selling, unambitious club waiting to cash in on the next superstar we create rather than win trophies.


5.) 09 Aug 2017
09 Aug 2017 16:13:07
Hazard had an off season before the last one.

RedDawn. I would agree with you, but in reality when was the last time we bought a ready made world class player? We haven't won anything for a while, the only over way to convince these players we would have to pay over the odds which we won't do this year as there is loads of other clubs with more money.


6.) 09 Aug 2017
09 Aug 2017 18:09:12
Mahrez, Lanzini, Meyer, Rakitic, Sigurdsson are all supremely inferior to Cou so they are non starters. BTW, SG84 is right. Those thinking Cou is not irreplaceable are fooling themselves, Why? None of the players touted above can remotely do the things Cou does for us and the creative influence he has in our team. The only two players I see who can do that are Eriksen and Sanchez.

Also, letting Cou go would be suicide. Don't think for one second that we will not struggle without him. That is total BS. Why? Cos there is no Mane or Firmino w/ o him. and his relationship with Salah alone this preseason is mouth-watering, that's why. We will be unable to cope without him, period. We would not have made top 4 without him, end of. He should not be sold, end of story.