[Football] Coutinho to villa?

[Is it PotG?]

Scored under the wall!

Wonder if that triggered players lying down?

Wasn't there another one that season, I think the draught excluder role became commonplace after that?

Edit:

Earlier season

 

[The Fits]

Great signing. Having Gerard there will mean plenty more like this over the next few windows I’m sure. You’d LOVE to play for him.

 

[Pondicherry]

4 years is a long time.....



He wont have pace like Salah and Firmino around him.

Izzy Brown looked and played like Cucurella in that game!

 

[Swansman]

I think there is a 75% chance it ends up hilarious and a 25% chance it ends up great for Villa. We'll see.

 

[GT49er]

Very good move for Villa. The worst that can happen for them is they spend a few million on his wages for six months and send him back - would probably still cost them less than Locadia! Would it have happened if someone hadn't 'forgotten' to switch on the goal line technology?

 

[Originunknown]

A nice headline but Villa must be paying a significant amount of his ludicrous wages.

Barca will have been desperate to see him go and not just for financial reasons, he never suited their system(s) and never won over their fans. Remains to be seen whether he can find some of his 2016 form but the PL will be even tougher for him and he has barely played in the last few seasons. Bayern did not wish to sign him or take another loan after a mixed spell with them.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Great signing. Having Gerard there will mean plenty more like this over the next few windows I’m sure. You’d LOVE to play for him.

Never bought into the smug Eddie thing but Smug ‘Stevie G’ is off the scale. The sooner he crashes and burns at Villa and is forced to take Sol Campbell’s old gig at Southend the better.

 

[Stato]

Agreed. That first season in the PL, Coutinho and Hazard came to the Amex, and were the two players who stood out to me as being so far above and beyond any player I had ever witnessed 'live'.

And I'd seen Paul Kitson.

Actually playing!!?

 

[JBizzle]

Never bought into the smug Eddie thing but Smug ‘Stevie G’ is off the scale. The sooner he crashes and burns at Villa and is forced to take Sol Campbell’s old gig at Southend the better.

Absolutely agree. Couldn't stand him as a player, can't stand him as a manager

 

[LamieRobertson]

Agreed. That first season in the PL, Coutinho and Hazard came to the Amex, and were the two players who stood out to me as being so far above and beyond any player I had ever witnessed 'live'.

And I'd seen Paul Kitson.

Have you washed Hazards shirt yet

 

[crodonilson]

Villa supporting relative is absolute purring with delight at this move, says it's the first of many big name signings under 'Stevie G'. Wouldn't rule Villa out from a Europa spot now.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

LIam Trotter for me...Saw him continue his upward curve to the top playing for Bromley last week

We discussed him at length the day after that game, he absolutely ran the show that night. Bizarre.

 

[Giraffe]

Absolutely agree. Couldn't stand him as a player, can't stand him as a manager

I like Stevie G, always have done. There, I said it.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Does seem quite a coup to get him on loan - big wages no doubt, but worth a punt for 5 months. Intrigued to see how he does. After all, it's not that long since he won the Champions League at Bayern

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[Justice]

Bit more exciting than some Polish kid we won’t see in an Albion shirt for two seasons if at all.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Not sure about this.

The best Villa can hope for whatever he does is Europa League, and that looks unlikely.

Next season, if they got there, we all know what strains the Europa thing can do to the smaller squads.

An expensive folly?

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Bit more exciting than some Polish kid we won’t see in an Albion shirt for two seasons if at all.

But not in the longer term, potentially.

 

[DJ NOBO]

4 years is a long time.....



He wont have pace like Salah and Firmino around him.

If Sanchez is in goal , we win that 1-0

 

[Amexarmadillo]

On £380k a week. So about £8m for half a seasons football from him. They aren’t going down and highly unlikely to be top 7 so hard to see what the benefit is beyond having him play for a small amount of time.

 

[PeterT]

Villa supporting relative is absolute purring with delight at this move, says it's the first of many big name signings under 'Stevie G'. Wouldn't rule Villa out from a Europa spot now.

Typical reaction from them. They really are full of it. I assume Coutinho will be booed if he dares to leave Project Villa World Domination any time before he retires?

When we played them last season, on the bus to the ground there was a Villa fan saying very passionately how great it was that their captain and manager were both Villa fans and that it was all part of some master plan and how much it meant to them. Probably he’s glad they’ve both gone now!