Coutinho Will Not Play Again for Liverpool

2017/18 in England volition forever be embedded into the minds of Liverpool fans, and perchance some football fans, as the season of Mohamed Salah.

The Egyptian was bought to Liverpool for a sum of 36.5 one thousand thousand pounds just before the season had started.

By the fourth dimension information technology had ended, he was the Premier League Gilded Boot winner, the record billow of most goals scored in a debut flavour and in an overall 38-game season, PFA Player's Player of the Year, PFA Fan'south Thespian of the Year, Football Wirters' Actor of the Year and Premier League Player of the Twelvemonth among numerous other accolades.

No wonder it was such a memorable season.

However, Salah wasn't the only star in the 2017/18 Liverpool side, at least for the first half of the season.

Liverpool'south 2013 signing from Inter Milan, Philippe Coutinho, had hitting his prime and was tearing autonomously Premier League defenses along with Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mané.

They were affectionately called the 'Fab Four" by Liverpool fans, after the iconic Liverpool based musical band, "The Beatles".

The Brazilian had 7 goals and six assists in 14 games League games he had played for Liverpool in his concluding flavour.

He had likewise scored five goals and given out ii assists in the half-dozen Champions League group phase matches he and participated in.

Naturally, he attracted interest and soon La Liga's Barcelona were bidding for Coutinho, who was equally eager to secure near every South American footballer's dream, to play for FC Barcelona.

Liverpool were reluctant to let him go, obviously, as he was their all-time attacker at that bespeak.

However, Coutinho was determined to go out, even paying some of his 142 million pound transfer fees to Barcelona himself out of his own pockets, and come February, Phillipe Coutinho was playing in Camp Nou.

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However, the "Little Magician" failed to achieve his dream completely.

He was a marquee signing for the Catalan order but, unfortunately for him, he was annihilation but that over the grade of the next four years.

In the ninety appearances he has fabricated in ii and a half seasons with the Blaugrana, he has scored 23 times and assisted xiv times.

Although not a bad overall statistic, it was evident how underwhelming he has been since his large move from England.

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In his 2019/xx loan spell at Bayern Munich, he had eight goals and half-dozen assists in 23 games.

Ironically, he had scored twice and assisted once in his parent club'southward viii-two demolition by the Bavarians in the xix/20 Champions League Quarter Finals.

His wish to win the Large Ears with Barcelona was thwarted in 2018, 2019, and 2022 also, at the hands of Roma, Liverpool themselves, and PSG.

He did win it, and the treble, in Germany though, with Bayern Munich.

Now, injured since December of 2020, Barcelona are drastic to get rid of Coutinho, mostly to clear their inflated wage nib, and Liverpool have been said to be interested to take back their former star.

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Barcelona are now willing to sell Coutinho for an alleged sum of 20m euros, a player they had signed for nearly 7 times that price.

Some news outlets, albeit not that reliable, take reported that Liverpool are considering bringing back the Brazilian to Anfield now that his price tag has significantly reduced and they are in need of a backup aggressor.

Yet, Diario SPORT, a Castilian news source, have shut down all these rumours and have reported that Jurgen Klopp has "blocked" the motion.

The German has apparently apace closed any possibility of buying back his sometime histrion, and never was invested in the idea in the same identify.

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Most probably, information technology is the best for the club equally well.

Coutinho is 29 years-old now, too old for a club who usually signs young players unless in that location are exceptions (for case, Thiago, concluding summer).

He has also lost the magic he once displayed every time he stepped on the pitch, now a shadow of his past self.

Klopp had reportedly told Coutinho,"Stay here, and they will build a statue in your award. Go somewhere else, to Barcelona, to Bayern Munich, to Real Madrid, and you will be simply another player. Here you tin can exist something more."

In the current circumstance, information technology tin can't be more than true.

From one of the all-time players in the Premier League, he is at present been reduced to a fringe thespian.

Liverpool will always gratefully remember the performances Coutinho had put out for their club for five years, but they will always remember how he left them in a centre of a season when they needed him.

He could have been something more if he stayed, only that is now only something to mull over.

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Source: https://www.si.com/soccer/liverpool/transfers/klopp-puts-the-end-to-coutinho-liverpool-transfer