Let's look at this more closely when comparing to SG:-
1) SG - wanted to leave for a domestic rival - to me that is like ... proper fucking evil and that considering he was from Liverpool playing for his boyhood club. That was proper fucking mean shit that. Thinking about such a cuntish move - I saw one in Sterling - cannot stand the sight of that little cunt and my prediction of him being a forgotten man may come true eventually by the end of the season. As a case in point - ask yourselves how you all feel when you see him play for City in comparison to how you feel when you see Suarez for Barcalona or when you use to see Alonso playing for Mardrid ? - I can still look at the later players with some sort of affection and the former (Sterling) as a complete cunt. Don't forget Torres either - oh the pain when we heard he was heading for Chelsea - how bad was it for all of you ?
2) We know South Americans are bought up on a diet of Barca/Real - some of their best players in the last 30 years have played for those two teams.
3) I also think some of the shit coming out of Neymar's mouth prior to him leaving Barca also encouraged him to move - the thought of teaming up with Suarez, Messi, Neymar and to play for Barcalona - was a big allure for him. Plus - our recent history of just selling to those clubs and giving in like complete faggots was probably encouragement in itself.
4) With these South American players - you can never tell who is in charge and what dodgy relationship they have with their agent. I still remember the original Ronaldo when he left Barca for Inter Milan (worse move of his life) - telling Bobby Robson - '..I don't know - I have to go where my agent tells me...'. They just follow the money trail and shit advise from agents.
Yes - it is a piss take when you hand in your notice before the season is about to start - but no serious damage has been done so far. If he really does stay then all good - let him perform the best ever, and knock out Barca from Europe and be the focal point of our league campaign. We should all get behind him.
By your logic, how could you possibly watch Suarez playing with affection when he tried more than any other player in our history in trying to engineer a move to a domestic rival prior to his move to Barcelona by leaking his contract (buy out clause) to Arsenal and doing a public interview to try and paint himself as the victim?
Lots of supporters were pissed off with Gerrard at the time, but moves to Europe were a rarity in England at the time so one to another English club was not as outrageous.
He'd also just won us the European Cup, and the main reason he wanted to leave was because the sod thought he wasn't loved and valued. He was in a strop, basically.
Coutinho was/is valued as the top dog here, and all this 'amicable' bollocks, fake injury, transfer request right before the season started, leaks that he never wanted to play for Liverpool again, etc, have been pretty horrible.
You can say his agent engineered all that, but his silence, or refusal to put an end to his reputation getting destroyed meant that he was onboard with it. Yes, footballers in general are thick as pig shit. Still doesn't change his intentions.
He's a dickhead to us. He better start performing for us when he's back.