Why don't you add me, you and every Liverpool supporter in the world too.
Not quite sure what you mean there tbh.
I'm talking about the team, the real life group of lads working together for a singular cause, it's something that Klopp has re-established since he came here. He's united the fans, staff, team and owners together. It's were our strength as a club lies. Being united and having a close bonded club matters massively on a day-to-day basis.
We might not want to admit it but there's no place for sentiment in football. If it's 0-0 with 10 minutes to go and you've got a choice of bringing Shaqiri or Coutinho on, there's only one winner.
Or Origi?
I genuinely don't believe that, there is place for sentiment in football, I'd say it was an integral part of Liverpool football club actually. It means more than individual players. There's a bigger picture at play than 1 singular player whom previously treated the club with disrespect and could have potentially ruined our campaign (fortunately it galvanised the players on afterwards.)
Also lets not make Coutinho out to be Messi here, he's not. There were countless games he disappeared, especially big games and finals. He IS replaceable, for the money we'd likely need to spend to get him back (80-100m) I'm sure we could find another younger player out there who would love to play for the club. Last year our Countinho-less squad got through to another CL final and won, and got 97pts in the league.
And we can complain as much as we want about loyalty and him wanting to leave to join Barca but we don't care about loyalty when the club are trying to sell a player that doesn't want to leave nor do we care about loyalty when we're trying to sign a player from another club. How well did Liverpool treat Origi in the first half of last season? He was practically frozen out because the club were trying to push him out the club. Did any Liverpool fan care when VVD was doing whatever he could to leave Southampton or when Keita was getting sent off every other week for Leipzig? Yes Coutinho threw a bit of a strop but he acted no better or worse than any club acts when they're trying to get their way but crucially, for me at least, look at the way he performed when the summer window closed. 10x better than both Keita did at Leipzig or VVD at Southampton.
The behavour of clubs and individual players in regards to transfers are not one in the same though. Clubs are bigger than individual players, how a club behaves is entirely upto them. Of course talent and ability matter when dealing with players but that's not all that matters. Look at Neymar for example, crazy talent but I wouldn't want him anywhere near my club. Jose Mourinho is an incredible manager but at Liverpool? No way.
Also Coutinho's behaviour never surprised me, this happens in football all the time, as you said, and with the power players and their agents have these days it'll happen again and again. I'm talking about how WE as a club respond to these players when they act up. I don't want the club rewarding them by taking them back, there's a constant stream of new upcoming talent out there and I'd rather we fished them out then go back peddling over a sour note in our transfer history.
The thing is, if Coutinho left in a good light I wouldn't have a problem with potentially resigning him. There's a way of doing things and he did things the wrong way, and I say as a fan, lets all move on and look for other players.
It's just my opinion, I understand not every fan feels the same over this and I dont mean to be argumentative. I ultimately trust Klopp to do what he thinks is right for the club and I'll get behind Coutinho if he does come, as it stands however, I'd rather we moved on from him because I do believe it sends the wrong message.
