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Philippe Coutinho arrived at FC Barcelona in transfer market winter 2018 as an added star to the team. The Catalans, in fact, broke the record achieved with Ousmane Dembélé and transformed the Brazilian into the most expensive player in their history. Specific, the azulgranas paid 120 million euros plus 40 for goals against Liverpool to get their services.
The ‘reds’ made things very difficult for Barça, who tried to incorporate the midfielder with no luck in the summer of 2017. Jürgen Klopp stayed with him until the winter, when the big offer to take him away came. But during the tug-of-war that the British and Catalans had for this signature, those of Anfield forced the culé to accept a very curious clause revealed by the newspaper “The Times”.
The aforementioned British media assured that Liverpool urged Barcelona to put a clause under which the blaugrana could not sign any player of their team until the summer of 2021. In case the Barça players wanted to get a footballer , they would have to pay a fine of 89 million pounds, which in euros is about 100 ‘kilos’.
With such a great punishment, Barça realized that by accepting the counter-offer they agreed not to chase any of the “red” team for two seasons. It wasn’t something he liked in the slightest at Camp Nou, but it was the penance to pay for signing the desired Philippe. After seeing how the Barcelona guys took away Luis Suárez in 2015 and Cou in 2018, the English have wanted to keep their backs for a while.
Salah, Mané and Firmino, calm down in Liverpool
Mohammed Salah, Sadio Mané and Roberto Firmino were very seductive targets for Barcelona and from Anfield they feared that the Blaugrana would try to get hold of any of them. By putting this clause they avoided it and made sure they could count on the presence of all three for at least another two years. A clever move to preserve his fearsome offensive trident.
Perhaps now, more than two and a half years after Michael Edwards, the ‘red’ sporting director, forced Barcelona to sign that agreement, they have regretted accepting this agreement at Camp Nou. At the end, Coutinho hasn’t given the level since he arrived and at Liverpool Salah, Mané and Firmino dated year after year and they have won everything in England and Europe.
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