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da pixbet： According to the Daily Mail, Liverpool will miss out on £17m if Barcelona manage to successfully offload Philippe Coutinho this summer, due to one of the agreements in the attacker’s contract.
What’s the word, then?
Well, when the Spanish champions signed the Brazil international back in January 2018 in a deal worth £142m, only £106m of that figure was paid upfront by Barcelona to Liverpool.
The rest of it was made up in instalments based on different variables. The Reds were due £4.4m if the Blaugrana won the Champions League, and another £4.4m if they qualified for the tournament, which they did.
Luis Suarez certainly had no qualms about celebrating against his former employers in the video below…
Another sum of the same value was paid after Coutinho made 25 appearances for the club, and the largest individual sum as part of the agreement – £17m – will be paid when the former Inter man reaches 100 appearances; if they successfully offload him in the summer, however, which they plan to, then they will escape paying this clause.
Ruthless decision by Barcelona
The decision to bin Coutinho after just 18 months is extremely ruthless by Barcelona.
The 26-year-old impressed in his first six months at the club, starring throughout the second half of last season, but has simply not got going at any point in the current campaign.
However, this is supposed to be the attacking midfielder’s dream move, the switch that he was so desperate to make happen that he paid £11.5m of his own money to push it through.
He is arguably yet to reach his peak, but Liverpool won’t care about all that.
Despite missing out on their £17m, the Merseysiders have still made £125m on the player they signed for just £8.5m, and also managed to bring in difference makers such as Alisson Becker and Virgil van Dijk with the money.
A penny for Coutinho’s thoughts amid all of this.