Well it's true he hasn't really performed so far this season, but that's since we switched back to the 433 and the way we play imo, he couldn't forget how to play proper football, he was Brazil's best player in the WC and our 2nd best player from January to May past season.
I think our 433 hurts him a lot, Messi comes centrally so Coutinho has less touches, if we also play Arthur this also decreases his role as a LW, and half our chances probably come from openings to Alba at the depth, or Suarez/Leo forcing their way through the middle, in any of those cases Coutinho becomes redundant, he doesn't add depth, he can't really link up with Alba (no one really could, not even Neymar) and we lacking wingers only hurts his cut inside movement. Our assymetric style doesn't even benefit him to open to the right wing, Messi won't be there and Rakitic/Sergi/Semedo are more defensive minded than Alba.
He would work out if we could finally create some good football with Coutinho, Messi, Dembele, Arthur and Rakitic upfront, but the way we space with a "false right winger", and how even Suarez tends to be around our LW area, he's just saddled into a couple meters around him, it's going to be hard for him to bounce back if Valverde doesn't come with a plan to involve him a little more, because playing him as a CM won't work with his workrate.
Well, Munir seems linked to Atletico too, I don't get what's happening with Spanish strikers, Morata still has credit, Munir is an objective for Atleti/Sevilla, Valencia rejected 60M for Rodrigo this summer (wonder what they were thinking) and meanwhile Alcacer was the discarded one, when he always looked better than everyone else with Valencia/Spain but got even behind Munir in our priority list.
Next thing we know at this rate, De Tomas might be the chosen one above Kane for Florentino
