One of the newcomers to Barcelona may be out of season. And all because of Philippe Coutinho.
Regulation La Liga suggests that for any club championship can act no more than three players who are not members of the European Union.
At the moment there are six players in Basrelones claiming this place, namely - Philippe Coutinho, Arturo Vidal, Arthur Melo, Malcom, Yerri Mina and Marlon Santos.
It is expected that in the near future the club will say goodbye to Mina and Marlon, so that there will be four players left for three places.
The idea of ??
Barcelona is to have time before the start of the championship to get for Coutinho a Portuguese passport and thereby free one place. Philippe has a reason for this, since his wife is from Portugal and they have been married for more than two years.
Marca notes that the problem is quite serious and now it's playing against Barcelona. In the match for the Super Cup of Spain, one of these players (Vidal, Coutinho, Malcolm and Arthur) will not play almost 100%.