SportReports: Barcelona's Coutinho to join Bayern Munich on loan

Philippe Coutinho will spend the season with Bayern Munich on a season-long loan, according to Catalan radio station RAC1.

© Provided by Oath Inc. Philippe Coutinho's transfer saga has reportedly reached its conclusion. (Getty)

AFP’s Tom Allnut reports Barcelona director Guillermo Amor has confirmed the loan deal. Sky Sports in Germany also reported the deal.

The 27-year-old attacking midfielder, who has fallen out of favor at Barcelona and didn’t make Friday’s squad for the La Liga opener, will travel to Germany on Sunday to complete the move.

Coutinho’s move to Munich could complicate Barcelona’s reported pursuit of Neymar, as Coutinho was believed to be one of the players Barca would make available to Paris Saint-Germain in a deal.

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Barcelona ' s record signing Philippe Coutinho is set to move to Bayern Munich on loan for the remainder of the season. "We can confirm that we have reached an agreement with Bayern Munich over the loan of Coutinho ," director of institutional relations Guillermo Amor told reporters.

Barcelona have loaned Philippe Coutinho to Bayern Munich for the season. The deal will cost Bayern £7.8m plus wages and the agreement also Coutinho joined Barcelona from Liverpool in January 2018 but struggled to produce the form he showed at Anfield. His future has been the subject

Now, Coutinho will join Bayern’s wealth of wide talent, which includes fellow loanee Ivan Perisic of Inter Milan, as well as Serge Gnabry, Kingsley Coman, Thomas Muller and Corentin Tolisso, who started Bayern’s Bundesliga opener Friday against Hertha Berlin on the wings. Canadian international and former Vancouver Whitecap Alphonso Davies is also an option.

With club legends Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery departed this summer, Bayern has scoured far and wide for attackers, and Coutinho fits that bill. Better than he did for Barcelona, at least, as he’ll try to revive a career that flashed great promise at Liverpool but dipped last campaign in Spain.

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  Philippe Coutinho has joined Bayern Munich on loan from Barcelona , just 19 months after moving to Camp Nou from "FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich have reached an agreement for the loan of the player Philippe Coutinho to the German club for the 2019/20 season," Barcelona said in a statement.

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