Coutinho, soon to return to Vasco da Gama

The Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho The former FC Barcelona and Liverpool player wants to return to Vasco da Gama and negotiations with the board are progressing well, according to an executive from the Rio club.

“We cannot guarantee that he will come, but we can be optimistic because the fact that the player wants to come is something important,” Vasco’s executive director of football said this Friday. Pedro Martins, at a press conference.

Aston Villa Property

Coutinho He has been loaned this season to Al-Duhail in Qatar from Aston Villa and, according to the Brazilian press, he has spoken with the English team to terminate his contract and thus return to his home country.

Martins He pointed out that they are not talking about money with the playmaker, because “the budget is limited and the club does not have a full coffers”, but rather about the sports project and “the importance he has” in it.

His wish is to return

“The fight for Coutinho is not financial, we will not go into the market to offer more money for Coutinho. “We talked to someone who wanted to join Vasco, who chose to join,” he stressed.

The manager could not specify a date because his hiring “depends on a series of other issues,” although “the fact that he wants to” return “is very important for the negotiations to go well.”

Trained in Basque

The playmaker, about to turn 32, trained at Vasco da Gama and from Rio de Janeiro he jumped to Inter Milan.

He then played for Espanyol, in the Spanish League, and finally ended up in Liverpool, where he had his best years of football.

His excellent performance caught the attention of FC Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

But he never found his place in the Barça squad and had to go out on loan to Bayern Munich to join Aston Villa in an attempt to relaunch his career.