Philippe Coutinho belongs 支援する at Liverpool... by turning 負かす／撃墜する chance to 調印する him on 貸付金, Jurgen Klopp must hope he hasn't 行方不明になるd an open goal

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いつかs in life you make a 決定／判定勝ち（する） that alters the course of things irrevocably. For Philippe Coutinho that moment （機の）カム on January 6, 2018.

His move from Liverpool to Barcelona seemed sensible enough. It was a ‘next level’ 移転 that appeared to give the brilliant Brazilian a level of football and lifestyle superior to anything on 申し込む／申し出 on Merseyside.

At Anfield, they did their best to dissuade him. I remember 存在 at a Jurgen Klopp 圧力（をかける） 要点説明 that week and the Liverpool 経営者／支配人 spoke passionately about the 巨大（な） 成果／努力s he had made. In the end, Coutinho left and it seemed hard to 非難する him.

Philippe Coutino made the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to leave Liverpool for Barcelona in January 2018

Eighteen months on and Coutinho looks lost. Unable to break the hegemony on creative football guarded so ひどく by Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez at the Nou （軍の）野営地，陣営, the 27-year-old has 限られた／立憲的な prospects at the club. 成果／努力s to return to England on 貸付金 have failed and yesterday he was pictured in Munich, with a move to Bayern 代表するing the only 選択 left.

非，不，無 of this surprises me 大いに. It can happen at clubs like Barcelona. Messi is 猛烈に 保護の of his turf, even more so as he gets older. What does surprise me is that Liverpool didn’t take the 適切な時期 to welcome Coutinho 支援する.

This opinion won’t sit 井戸／弁護士席 with 支持者s of a club that has gone on to do rather nicely without Coutinho. But if you take the emotion out of the 支配する, a return to Liverpool makes irrefutable sense. In sport, pragmatism trumps emotion more often than not.

Things have not gone to 計画（する） for the Brazilian at the Nou （軍の）野営地，陣営 and he now looks 始める，決める to leave?

A 貸付金 申し込む／申し出 was put to Liverpool by Coutinho’s people last month, just as it was to Tottenham, 兵器庫 and Manchester 部隊d. Not surprisingly, Liverpool was the preferred 選択 but they said no almost すぐに. A 決定／判定勝ち（する） driven partly by 財政／金融? かもしれない, the numbers were high. By Klopp’s 戦術の 見通し for the season? Very probably. By hubris? We would really hope not.

There is an opinion held by some on Merseyside that Coutinho would be 負かす／撃墜する the creative つつく／ペックing order 支援する at Anfield these days. I don’t see that. Players like Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane have 改善するd in his absence but Coutinho would still 申し込む／申し出 Klopp’s team something they don’t have. Those who don’t agree must have forgotten ― conveniently and perhaps deliberately ― just how good he really is.

An attacking philosophy built on 速度(を上げる） and energy and sheer 圧倒的な 力／強力にする, Klopp’s 詳細な計画 is thrillingly 効果的な in 十分な flow. Clubs like Barcelona and even English 支持する／優勝者s Manchester City have 設立する it impossible to 持つ／拘留する 支援する the Liverpool tide when the really big waves start to break.

Coutinho has been linked with a move to Bayern Munich and is in Germany to 完全にする a 取引，協定

But Liverpool won 97 points last season and still did not 勝利，勝つ the 肩書を与える. Within their season there was a （一定の）期間 of games when the 計画（する） did not やめる work, when the energy levels dropped.

Between January 30 and March 3, Liverpool failed to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Leicester, West Ham, Manchester 部隊d and Everton. It was a period that undoubtedly cost them the 肩書を与える, a （一定の）期間 when they might have been helped by the 肉親，親類d of once-every-90-minutes creativity that a player like Coutinho brings.

Going 支援する doesn’t always work, we know that. But this would have been a 貸付金. An expensive 貸付金, but a 貸付金 all the same. As such, the 危険 would have been 極小の.

City are ありそうもない to regress much this season, not now that players like Kevin De Bruyne have returned to fitness. In the 首相 League, squad depth is everything. It is almost impossible to have too many 最高の，を越す players.

Pep Guardiola seems to understand that. Does Klopp? We would hope so. 平等に, we hope pride hasn’t been 許すd to get in the way of 変えるing the most obvious open goal of Liverpool’s 早期に season.

Jurgen Klopp turned 負かす／撃墜する the 適切な時期 to re-調印する the Brazilian on 貸付金 this summer

When?Steve Harmison bowled that 悪名高い first-ball wide to Justin Langer in Brisbane at the start of the 2006 Ashes series, the worst thing captain Andrew Flintoff did was take him off after two overs. It sent Harmison a （疑いを）晴らす message that even his good friend just couldn’t 信用 him.

With this in mind, it was 利益／興味ing to see Frank Lampard stick with Kurt Zouma in Istanbul last Wednesday.

Zouma, 24, had a horror show as Chelsea lost at Manchester 部隊d on 開始 週末. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. But Lampard sent Zouma out again in the 最高の Cup against Liverpool and the Frenchman （機の）カム good. Sound 管理／経営, that.

Frank Lampard showed sound man 管理／経営 by showing 約束 in defender Kurt Zouma?

Stoke City are in danger of disappearing off the 地図／計画する and they could take some good players with them.

現在／一般に 底（に届く） of the 選手権, Stoke and their 井戸／弁護士席-thought-of 経営者／支配人 Nathan Jones have been moving in the wrong direction ever since they slid out of the 首相 League two seasons ago.?

Goalkeeper Jack Butland and midfielder Joe Allen are still there, which seems unfathomable. いつかs it 支払う／賃金s to jump off a ship as soon as it starts to take on water.

GOOD WEEK

VAR

Really? Yes, really. The system is 減ずるing football to a slow, 非常に長い, tedious, 審議する／熟考する 演習 in geometry and precision. This is 正確に／まさに what it 約束d to do. To all those who （選挙などの）運動をするd for an end to the brilliant, beautiful 大混乱 and 不確定 of football: congratulations. This is for you.

BAD WEEK?

Huddersfield Town

We thought their best gag of the year was that 残念な 米，稲 力／強力にする 道具 stunt but we were wrong. No, their 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 任命する Jan Siewert as coach last January was a bit of a joke, too. Turns out that coaching Borussia Dortmund’s reserves doesn’t make you the next Jurgen Klopp or David Wagner after all.

Jan Siewert was 雇うd last January by Huddersfield but won just one game while in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金

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