Inter milan must wince every time they see Philippe Coutinho in a Liverpool FC shirt. In January, the Reds acquired themselves a gem of a player from the cash-strapped Italian giants.
He didn’t fit into the system under manager Andrea Stramaccioni and the Nerazzurri cashed in.
They must surely now wish they hadn’t.There was some scepticism from Liverpool fans who asked: ‘If Inter Milan are prepared to sell him then why would he good enough for us?’Critically, Brendan Rodgers knew exactly how good he was.And he knew how much of a deal they were getting.
Coutinho is blossoming into a superb player – but even in his most vivid of dreams, Rodgers could not have imagined this boy from Brazil starting so well.
The 20-year-old has the look of innocence on his face but his feet are full of devilment and menace; the Premier League is quickly being exposed to his wicked ways.
And if Daniel Sturridge’s hat-trick at Craven Cottage yesterday made the club’s £12m outlay look like money very well spent, then the cash transferred into the accounts at the San Siro looks like an even shrewder piece of business.
The speed at which Coutinho has found his rhythm at Liverpool has been hugely impressive – most fans have been taken aback – and his performance against Fulham reinforced the belief that the Reds were very smart in the last transfer window.
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