I remember the hype around him at the time, people talking about him being the next super star for Barcelona. Why didn’t he do well at Barcelona?
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Pessi took his position so he couldn’t shine.
Coutinho is a good player but he’s not as amazing as the hype made him out to be. The price was way too high. Even at Liverpool, he wasn’t as amazing as fans made him up to be. He was okay in most games but every 3 or so games, he’d produce some bit of magic.
Another interesting thought. Didn’t Neymar eagerly want him to join Barca and then left before it happened? Coutinho was a great player. It was Barcelona who started to fuck up.
That whole Barca era was fucking awful from Barca built the completely wrong kind of team around Messi, should’ve been buying young athletic hard running players to be around Messi.
basically any club he has gone to except bayern didn’t suit his playstyle as they were all possession based teams
He was always bang average at Liverpool. They must have laughed their way to bank when Barcelona came with the huge transfer fee. Really poor transfer business.
Main reason was his playing style, he was more suited for making deep runs through the centre in klopp’s system while at Barca they wanted him to join possession attack from the left wing, same thing happened with greizmann who had played his entire Atletico as a supporting striker
Was always a one trick pony…also barca never played a 4231. Am.is where he’d make the biggest impact
He did well for the first season. He was confident. But after an injury he started losing it.
From a Liverpool fan: coutinho is good for having that great goal or chance created. In between that he isn’t going to do too much. Barcelona is built to have possession and control. He’s just not a great player in that style. He’s mainly effective on a team that lacks offense and needs that one guy to make something happen.
Afaik it was Valverde playing him at left wing instead of his natural position.
Messi was better and played his position
Too shy
Pressure
huge price tag pressure, and his playstyle was not suited to Barcelona’s tiki-taka oriented style. He immediately did well at Bayern because they are more similar to the Liverpool he used to play in during his best years.