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30-04-2020 | 13:17 • Football
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Philippe Coutinho tipped for Wolves or Everton move instead of Chelsea
Former Liverpool player Stan Collymore has suggested Barcelona star Philippe Coutinho is a better fit for Wolverhampton Wanderers or Everton than Chelsea.
Collymore reckons Frank Lampard would be making a 'mistake' by signing the Brazilian playmaker.
Coutinho's future is uncertain after a poor season on loan at German giants Bayern Munich.
Bayern have the option to sign the 27-year-old from Barcelona but they won't take it up.
Collymore says Chelsea should avoid Coutinho and suggests he's better suited to Wolves.
"If Frank Lampard signs Philippe Coutinho it could well be his first mistake as Chelsea manager," Collymore wrote in his column for The Mirror.
"The Brazilian would help an Everton, a West Ham or possibly Wolves – tier-two Premier League clubs whose usual aim is to finish between sixth and eighth.
"He’d put bums on seats and sell the notion to supporters that their club is working hard to break into the Champions League. But he is not going to help a team that is already there get any better, because he is one of the most overrated attacking midfielders in the game.
"Being Brazilian has given him a level of kudos that he wouldn’t have if he was from, say, Slovakia, and coming from the same group as Neymar added to it. Yet in 90 per cent of matches he actually offers very little in terms of taking a game by the scruff of its neck — he’s a flat-track bully, the player who scores a couple of wonder goals in a 5-0 rout when most of the work has been done."
Source: The Mirror.
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