COUT-PRICE BARGAIN!
Daily Mirror|May 14, 2022
Gerrard purring after signing his old team-mate for £129m LESS than Barcelona paid Liverpool
DAVE ARMITAGE
COUT-PRICE BARGAIN!

STEVEN GERRARD expects bargain-buy Philippe Coutinho to become a revelation after his permanent signing.

Aston Villa have snapped up the Brazil international in one of the cut-price deals of all time. Coutinho cost Barcelona £146million just four years ago, when they signed him from Liverpool. But Villa have forked out just £17m for the 29-year-old.

Coutinho starts against Crystal Palace tomorrow with his gaffer drooling over what might lie ahead.

Gerrard (with Coutinho, right, and in their Liverpool days, far right) said: “His head has been all over the place, not knowing where he was going to be playing.

This story is from the May 14, 2022 edition of Daily Mirror.

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