There are again countless Coutinho saga articles in the Spanish media on Wednesday, with some much more interesting than others.
Sport are very confident a deal will be done soon with Liverpool, and they once again bring FSG into it. Throughout the transfer saga, the Catalan press have shared insights on how Barcelona and Coutinho’s agents have to deal with Liverpool’s owners in Boston.
It seems very much that the real power on this deal, and all big Liverpool deals, is in the US rather than at Anfield, and Sport have again pushed that stance.
The Catalan newspaper state that finalising the Coutinho deal is drawn out, because of Liverpool’s company structure: ‘What, in principle, is a bureaucratic process, to finish defining the fringes, is a final process that can extend for a few days due to the lateness of the decision-making structure in Liverpool, in which three executives, located in Boston, have to give the final OK for each step that is carried out.’
That process means that drawing up the contracts for a Coutinho move is more complicated that transfers usually are, and something strange for Barcelona to deal with.
Whether this is another dig at Liverpool, presenting the club as being badly organised, isn’t clear, because it’s not presented as such.
Sport aren’t scared of sending digs to the Premier League club, they’ve shown that repeatedly, and this portrayal of Liverpool’s slow transfer process sounds like it’s a genuine belief from the Catalan newspaper.
