OK mate, you keep copy and pasting, and I'll keep swerving you.
Well as a compromise, we can tell he is going to be a fantastic player.
He would go straight into any first 11 in the premier league, 90m would be a bargain and FSG were chickens on this one. Now they are probably kicking themselves because after the France game they know they could have brought him for 90m and sold him for 180m.
I only seen Lamar from YouTube and today's game, but it is probably more that I think Coutinho is slightly over rated and that I would have liked Lemar to replace him.
Coutinho is good but lets face it, he has gotten really big for his boots.
When we use Coutinho he is taking a midfield spot and he just doesn't do a lot defensively so to use him we should have a formation that either has a number 10 to accommodate him, or put Coutinho as a winger. I hate him as a playmaker, because a playmaker has to be able to support the defence off the ball better. He is just invisible off the ball most of the time. I would rather have Mane and Salah there right now as they are doing an alright job and I think 4-3-3 is a better formation for us. I don't think 4-2-1-3 with number 10
or 4-1-2-3 with play maker is particularly a viable option with our current centre backs either.
So does Coutinho get into our first 11? He is situational.
From what I have seen, albeit not an awful lot, Lemar can defend better. He has operated as a central midfielder before too.
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