If you check the original article (in AS), I think someone doesn’t understand amortization:
el Barça aún debe varios plazos de amortiguación de su fichaje al Liverpool
Very roughly speaking, €125m base fee after 3 years of amortization would leave about €50m of Coutinho “book value” – not an amount still owing to Liverpool.
Grain of salt where the Echo is concerned, but back in December it was reported with some level of precision that we had gotten all we were going to get for Coutinho.