Re Coutinho
He's a fucking idiot, and Barca are idiots. Phil took years to settle in and shine with us, then fucked off just when things were getting interesting. Not all his fault - he had whispers in his ear that Barca was the kind of club players like him went to and he listened to them. But still a dumb move - could have helped us win the CL last year instead of cooling his heels, watching Roma turn his new club over from the stands.
But Barca bought him seemingly without any clear idea of what to do with him. It's their institutional arrogance that they can have pretty much any player they want that has undone them here. They just saw a good player and said, "we'll have him!" without apparently checking his history or studying how Klopp and Brendan had made use of him. They seem to have bought him for no other reason than that they could. He's a worse vanity purchase than Pogba.
If they want Phil to work out they need to show a bit of fucking patience and see how well the team and him can adapt to make best use of his talents. But they wont, because it's Barca and modern football isn't like that. They'll just jettison him and move on to the next big player. And Phil will be left crushed, wondering where it all went wrong as he tries to play off Luke Shaw.
As for Suarez, well fuck him. I never minded him being a cnut when he was our cnut, but as others have said, he showed precious little respect for us in either leg of the tie. Liverpool and Liverpool fans stood by him through all kinds of crazy shit. We're not asking him to throw the match and we know he's an aggressive winner, but being a dick towards former team mates is a shite way to play. He was pulling shit he knew our club would never have allowed him to do.
