Tottenham sources reportedly understand that they could sign Philippe Coutinho on a season-long loan next campaign for a fee of £8m.
Barcelona have reportedly outlined the terms for clubs looking to acquire the Brazilian who is unwanted at the Camp Nou and won’t be joining Bayern Munich, where he spent this year on loan, on a permanent basis.
According to Football Insider’s intel, Barcelona have told interested clubs that they would need to pay £8m and all of Coutinho’s salary to attain his services. The 27-year-old is said to earn in excess of £200,000 a week, so while the fee is pretty reasonable, wages could be a stumbling block.
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a big fan of Dele Alli and his worth to the team but the former Liverpool playmaker is on another level and we should do everything within our financial power to get him.
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There may be a way to shoe-horn both Coutinho and Dele into the same team, with one of them playing as a narrow right-winger, and if not it will provide us with a competition for places we’ve never had at No.10.
And if we don’t get him, you can bet that one of our rivals will…
