Three Kings Day, anniversary of the worst deal in the history of Barça

The Day of Kings is a little celebrated date inside the installations of the FC Barcelona. In fact, it is the anniversary of the start of the sportive and economic disaster of the club in the last five seasons, everything as a result of a signing that, a priori, would offer all the solutions that the team needed after the exit of Neymar Júnior and the disappointing first campaign of Ousmane Dembélé.

The Managerial Board of Josep Maria Bartomeu concretised on 6 January 2018 the traspaso of Philippe Coutinho from the Liverpool by a millionaire figure of 120 million fixed euros more 40 more in variables. A mount that it keeps him to day of today like the costliest incorporation in the history of the Barça and one of the detonantes of the crisis that drags the institution in his arks.

The Brazilian did not generate any type of sportive doubts in his first months with the elastic Barcelona, marking new so many and delivering seven passes of goal in 22 commitments. However, everything began to desmoronarse when the campaign 2018/19 opened his doors, since the mediapunta went down notably his performance overcoat in the second half of the course.

The culés were candidates to do with all the titles but the 'canarinho' only saw door in five occasions in all the competitions, something that desató the enojo of the fans and that showed with boos every time that the balloon arrived to his feet. The point without return occurred in the disaster of Anfield in front of his exequipo, when it went practically invisible on the terrain in a (4-0) that sent to the 'reds' to a new final of Champions.

Imminent exit

In front of this, the dispatches of the Camp Nou looked for an exit that allowed them recover something of the invested in Coutinho, since split after party his value of market went in decadence, happening of 150 millions to 70 in question of months. The Bayern Munich disbursed 8.5 'kilos' in a loan that included an option of purchase priced in 120 millions, a figure that the Bavarians never thought to disburse whatever happens.

'Cou' Shined in the Bundesliga and had a physical change radical, helping to the Germans to achieve it all and proclaiming champion of Europe in his year of cession. In fact, it went one of the protagonists of the fateful (2-8), seeing door in two opportunities and delivering a pass of goal to show that his sportive career still was not finish.

The ex Liverpool returned to the discipline of the Barcelona to join to the sportive project of Ronald Koeman in the middle of the crisis by the pandemia, although it did not mark differences and big step part of the campaign lesionado. With Xavi Hernández was an usual in the bench until the Aston Villa of Steven Gerard appeared in scene and did with his signing by 20 million euros, a number that contrasts the abysmal business of the ancient sportive direction.

Future in sail

Nowadays his future keeps in the limbo in spite of having a valid agreement with the villains. Unai Emery does not take him in account in his alignments and several rumours have linked him with the Brazilian football, although the own player has gone out to the step affirming that it does not pose any change of airs. It will be necessary to see that it occurs with the career of a star that turned off hardly stepped the lawn of the Camp Nou.