{"id":11117,"date":"2022-01-07T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T10:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=178185"},"modified":"2022-01-07T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T10:34:25","slug":"philippe-coutinho-from-barcelona-to-here-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/philippe-coutinho-from-barcelona-to-here-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippe Coutinho from Barcelona to here on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona\u2019s Philippe Coutinho could be really reuniting with Steven Gerrard at Villa Park after both stayed together at the Premier League club Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Gerrard was his captain at the club Liverpool. Aston Villa has conceded for a deal to sign the 29-year-old on loan from the La Liga club. The Brazilian is expected to move to Birmingham in the upcoming next 48 hours to complete his medicals. \u201cThe agreement also includes an option to buy and Philippe will travel to Birmingham in the next 48 hours,\u201d reported the Italian journalist and football expert Fabrizio Romano.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Official, confirmed. Philippe Coutinho joins Aston Villa on loan from Barcelona. Deal signed. \u2b50\ufe0f\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AVFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AVFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agreement also includes an option to buy and Philippe will travel to Birmingham in the next 48 hours\u201d, statement confirms. \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>Steven Gerrard, key factor.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gocdxkHXd5\">pic.twitter.com\/gocdxkHXd5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1479385957216534533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The journalist also updated about how much Coutinho will earn at the club.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aston Villa will pay around 65% [with taxes] of Philippe Coutinho\u2019s salary. Barcelona have accepted to concede buy option clause, not mandatory. \ud83e\udd1d\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AVFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AVFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steven Gerrard had more than three direct contacts with Cou in the last 48 hours \u2013 and now it\u2019s already done and official.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1479398103795089408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The club welcomed the player on loan until the end of the season, \u201cWelcome, Philippe Coutinho,\u201d stated Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome, Philippe Coutinho! \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa and FC Barcelona have agreed terms for Philippe Coutinho to spend the rest of this season on loan at Villa Park. \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVFCOfficial\/status\/1479385109736394754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The veteran player from Brazil international had signed for the Spanish club for a \u00a3142 million move from Liverpool in January 2018. The other clubs that eyed the attacking midfielder involved Arsenal, Everton, Newcastle and Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder\u2019s contract at Barcelona expires at the end of the season 2022-23. He has appeared for 106 games for Barca and netted 26 goals. The player still has 18 months left in the contract at Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>Coutinho, a very good player at Liverpool didn\u2019t leave any impressive record in Spain at Barcelona and desired to have a neat start that will be seen with the Villa manager Steven Gerrard with whom he has already worked before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The midfielder\u2019s contract at Barcelona expires at the end of the season 2022-23. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":33593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1288,661,219,2865,2132],"class_list":["post-11117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-aston-villa","tag-barcelona","tag-liverpool","tag-philippe-coutinho","tag-steven-gerrard"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}