Here’s a fresh Catalan take on the Coutinho saga: Liverpool aren’t asking for enough money.
Yep, in an effort to make Philippe Coutinho sound like a bargain, Mundo Deportivo explain he should really be costing a lot more than €110m + €40m in bonus payments.
The reasoning isn’t too bad.
If Virgil van Dijk, a central defender unlikely to trouble the Ballon d’Or shortlist in the future, costs €85m, then Coutinho is surely worth an awful lot more than Barcelona may get him for.
Mundo Deportivo state: ‘If Liverpool has paid €85m for Van Dijk, the strange thing is that they don’t ask €350m for the Brazilian. He’s younger, more decisive and a thousand times better.’
The Van Dijk fee is labelled ‘an absolute madness’, with the newspaper going on to say: ‘His level is not, by far, fitting for that stratospheric price. Not half. Maybe half of the half, but it is what it is.’
Given all of that, Coutinho will be ‘a bargain’ if Liverpool accept the €110m plus bonus payments.
This time, Mundo Deportivo may have a point.
