Bayern Munich announced this week that Philippe Coutinho had undergone an operation to solve physical problems that had been dragging on for months, and even years. The success of the surgical intervention was reported, as well as that the start of the recovery process would begin in around 14 days. It is not known how many months Coutinho will be out, but in the Premier League it does not seem to matter in the least.
The Brazilian has become the wish of several clubs in England, who remember how he shone at Liverpool and his beginnings at FC Barcelona, before joining a Bayern Munich where, despite not being a starter and not having played like the Angels, your numbers cannot be said to be bad either.
The point is that for weeks it has been informing from England of numerous clubs interested in its services. Tottenham and Chelsea seem the best positioned today, although in the last hours Newcastle and Everton would have been added to the list, while Arsenal and Leicester City have also come to sound in some British newspaper as candidates.
As recently reported by 'Tuttosport', FC Barcelona would already be negotiating with English clubs to start preparing Coutinho's return to the Premier League, the only league in which he has so far shone indisputably after his short-lived move for LaLiga and Serie A, where he played at Inter Milan, and a chiaroscuro season in the Bundesliga.
Quique Setién would keep it, but Barça does not want
At FC Barcelona, Quique Setién would be delighted to welcome him to the squad in order to have one more cash for midfield and the attacking front. However, it seems that the intentions of the board and the technical secretariat are not going in those directions, and Coutinho would not be especially motivated to return to a Camp Nou where he was whistled.
The great challenge for FC Barcelona will be to get a great transfer for him. It will be impossible to recover the 120 million euros he paid to Liverpool in January 2018, but at least he will try to get as close to one hundred as possible, an amount also far from today. With the player injured and devalued athletically, the wind blows against him. And the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus does not help in the least.