Chelsea shut the door to Philippe Coutinho move because of high salary (ESPN)

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Philippe Coutinho's future is still to be decided. The injured Brazilian playmaker will come back to Barcelona in the summer and continue until the club finds a departure. He is likely to be sold; that is Barcelona's intention. Coutinho would like to go back to the Premier League.

Barca would like to get around 100 million euros for him, but one of the prime candidates for his name - Chelsea - have pulled out of the race. They will spend 50 million euros on Timo Werner, on top of the 40 million they paid for Ziyech, and will not be able to pay his high salary, per ESPN.

Newcastle, Everton and Tottenham are other contenders for him but they will not likely reach that 100m euro figure.

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