The Brazilian midfield player, Philippe Coutinho, and the one who also is the most expensive signing in the history of the Barcelona, has not been able to recover of his injury in the left knee and has decided to travel this Monday to Brazil. The aim of the trip would be to do a medical evaluation and a treatment of the ailment that suffers in the external meniscus.
Coutinho lesionó The past 29 December during the meeting that the Catalan square had against the Eibar in the Camp Nou. It went through the operating theatre the day 2 January, but the time of drop that supposed would be of three months has done longer.
The weeks have happened and his annoyance has not yielded in the most minimum. In fact, it does some days also was in Qatar happening a medical recognition. Then, it would have informed that it could have been operated again, although the directive of the Barcelona denied said information. What is clear is that his articulation has not recovered as it expected .
Now, the international Brazilian, in front of the problems that is having with his knee, wanted to follow with the process of recovery in his country, something that the club culé informed in a communiqué. Coutinho Has participated in this course in a total of 14 parties, between all the competitions, and has marked three goals.
The international Brazilian from the Liverpool has not been able to adapt to the Barcelona since it arrived three years backwards, and this summer goes back to be one of the players that the entity chaired by Joan Laporta can put in the market. Everything will depend, nevertheless, that it recover to time of his injury in the knee. It seems very difficult that go to have minutes already this campaign.
His agreement and his clauses
Another reason by which is little likely that Koeman give him minutes still if it recovers is the sum of money that the Barcelona would have to pay him to the Liverpool when this have played 100 parties, since this was agreed between both directives to the moment of his signing.
The referred agreement, established that play 25 meetings would suppose the payment of 5 million euros, 20 millions by one hundred parties, 10 millions more by the classification to the Champions in his first two years and 5 millions more for winning the referred competition.
Recovery of Ansu Fati
The Barça is not having a lot of luck with the annoyances and injuries of key players, such is the case of Ansu Fati, whose recovery neither is following the rhythm expected. Even some means affirmed that it could go again to the operating theatre.