The Brazilian is reported to soon end his strange time on the books of Barcelona, the club who made him their record signing
Should Arsenal, a club at a highly delicate stage of re-gearing, sign the mercurial, itinerant Philippe Coutinho? Should Paris Saint-Germain, three months into an impressively unified rebuild under Mauricio Pochettino, sign the exhilarating, weirdly doom-laden Philippe Coutinho?
On a similar note, should I stab myself through the upper thigh with the twinkly, finely-wrought, pearl-handled meat skewer I’ve just spotted lying over there on the floor before setting off on my run around the block this evening?