Bayern Munich have signed attacking midfielder Philippe Coutinho from Barcelona on a season-long loan deal which includes an option to buy.

Barcelona say the German side will pay 8.5m euros (£7.78m) to take the Brazilian, 27, on loan while the option to buy stands at 120m euros (£109.84m).

Bayern will also pay Coutinho's wages for the duration of the loan spell.

"In Barcelona a lot of things did not turn out as we had imagined," he said at his official presentation in Munich.

"But this is now history. I hope to stay here a long time and win many titles."

He added: "The jersey of FC Bayern and the number 10 is a big responsibility.

"It belonged to Robben, he was a great reference in football. I hope to be able to live up to expectations with good football on the pitch."

Bayern chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge added: "We have been working with Philippe Coutinho for some time and are very happy that we were able to realise this transfer now.

"Our thanks to FC Barcelona for agreeing to this transfer. In Philippe, a player comes to FC Bayern who will strengthen our offense with his creativity and excellent technique."

Coutinho, who was in the crowd for Barcelona's La Liga defeat against Athletic Bilbao on Friday, joined from Liverpool in a £142m deal in January 2018.

Despite scoring 21 goals in 76 appearances for the Spanish giants, he has fallen short of expectations and had been linked with several clubs this summer.

It is believed he was included as part of a bid by Barcelona to re-sign Neymar from Paris St-Germain, the Spanish club reportedly willing to offer 100m euros (£92.4m) plus Coutinho for the forward.

Tottenham ended their interest in a loan deal for Coutinho earlier this month, while he was also linked with moves to Arsenal and back to Liverpool.

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I love this deal. Shame it didn't work out for Coutinho at Barca. He is a fantastic player

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Coutinho is a very good player buh thinking he can replace Neymar's void in Barcelona is a big Facade!



That was where the mistake came from!

Happened yesterday though
Wish him all the best At Bayern

This guy should have be in Chelsea of not for transfer ban...
Good for him

Good luck, hope you find your best form again.

Ok

He's even lucky that Bayern Munich came for him, na so him career suppose end

Fear village people

Kneephy:
Coutinho is a very good player buh thinking he can replace Neymar's void in Barcelona is a big Facade!



That was where the mistake came from!

What is there in Barca to replace of not Messi...
And how can a midfielder replaced an attacker

The guy should have stayed in Liverpool

LongrichPlanet:
I love this deal. Shame it didn't work out for Coutinho at Barca. He is a fantastic player

As a Barcelona fan, this deal is very painful. Coutinho did not flourish because we had a dodgy coach who did not know how to utilize him... It is also strange that we sold him and left two injury prone players in Dembele and Rafinha... Na wa oo

He would have been in a better position if he had never left Liverpool

This is what happens when you dribble and dribble and dribble and shoot at the goal post instead of passing the ball to Messi...

Ask Neymar
Dembele

He made a wrong move to barca....
He saw his transfer to barca as a dream move....but the club's intention was for him to fill a huge void left by bad boy neymar.....

Mane almost made this same mistake when he almost left Liverpool to Madrid to replace a departing ronaldo....

Players should go to clubs where they are valued and wanted not clubs where they are only needed to replace departing players!

To be honest,I would have loved to have coutinho in Liverpool!
Though Klopp said recently he actually wanted to sign coutinho but the club did not have such humongous funds!

I wish him well at Bayern!

Coutinho is a better player to neymar as far as am concerned. It's just unfortunate he had a bad season. Good luck bro.

You didn't celebrate your goal against Man U, Played trash home and away against your former club Liverpool. Wish you all the best here

Blame Valverde. Best of luck, Champ

All the best for him, really hope he gets career back on track.

Dembele injured hamstring aswell, where does all this leave Neymar?

After his agent said he will not accept such treatment. I wish him good luck shaa. He's a good footballer.

All the best coutinho, I'm a fan tho

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See that loan amount. If he was going to Arsenal or any other premiership club, it would never be £7.7m. Ordinary Ceballos is like £15m.

They just like to squeeze premiership clubs cos they feel they all have money. See how Nabil Fekir moved for around £20m to a Spanish club, Betis. Give away price.

See how village people play with his carer

If not for transfer ban,,dis guy 4 dey chelsea..,its all gud though...

Bayern just want loan. They won't buy him for that amount of money

I pity Barca this season

Coutinho- Loaned

Suarez-- injured

Dembele--- injured

Messi---. Injured(Not yet fit) to play

They sold Malcom

Semedo refuses to leave

The player they are suppose to offer to PSG is injured..




Well HALA MADRID

mjbaba:
See that loan amount. If he was going to Arsenal or any other premiership club, it would never be £7.7m. Ordinary Ceballos is like £15m.

They just like to squeeze premiership clubs cos they feel they all have money. See how Nabil Fekir moved for around £20m to a Spanish club, Betis. Give away price.

They are punishing English clubs for overinflating their players esp English players!

Liverpool beg u to stay u said no u said is ur dream to play for barca and to win the champions league. The same barca wey done dey loan u like kenneth omeruo chai.

honestly I don't see Bayern buying him James that did very well in he's loan spell Bayern nor buy and he's even cheaper na coutinho Dem one buy I doubt

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