Chelsea warned to stay off Coutinho E80m bid price

The former Blues defender says La Liga monsters committed an error in spending huge on the ex-Liverpool star and needs Frank Lampard to maintain a strategic distance from a similar destiny 

Chelsea have been cautioned off a £80 million ($99m) move for Philippe Coutinho, with Frank Leboeuf thinking about that requesting that cost be "to an extreme" for a Barcelona flop who comes up short on the nature of a "top, top player". 

The Blues are by and by starting speculation with respect to an offer to take a previous Liverpool star back to English football.

Having seen Coutinho battle at Barca on the rear of a big money in January 2018, and during an loan spell at Bayern Munich, those at Stamford Bridge are said to prepared an olive branch.

There has been discussion of Frank Lampard looking for a short term deal for the South American shemer which includes an option to buy.

A permanent transfer has additionally been mooted, with Barca anxious to free up funds that can be invested somewhere else.

Leboeuf, however, isn't convinced that Chelsea – who as of now have a summer deal set up for Ajax winger Hakim Ziyech – ought to sprinkle the money on a player who seems to be something of a blurring power.

The former Blues defender, to be extremely fair, and straight to the point, no [Chelsea ought not sign him].

“I think Coutinho is a good player and I'm not even trying to be harsh on him, I think I want to find Barcelona guilty for the situation because they put a price on Coutinho who I think doesn't belong to that league.


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“Now it's hard to reverse the system, it's hard to think that you can even the price and accept to lose like £65m for a transfer.

“But if you check on the quality of Coutinho, of course he is a talented player, of course he is a good player, but does he belong to the top, top players? Allow me to have some doubts about that.

“When I see Neymar, when I see [Cristiano] Ronaldo, when I see [Lionel] Messi, when I see [Kylian] Mbappe, I see top, top players.

"Coutinho has a cost of a top, top player and I would prefer not to say something yet I don't know he has the nature of a top, top player.

"Furthermore, presently, how would you turn around the framework? How would you put Coutinho in a group and how would you rate him now?

"You talk about Chelsea, prepared to [pay] £80m. I believe it's a lot for a player where you don't know he's going to locate the level he was, he used to be, at Liverpool and isn't any longer.

"That is the reason I think Coutinho shouldn't go to Chelsea on the grounds that there is no space for him and I think it is an excessive amount to spend for a player where we don't have the foggiest idea about the standard."