Klopp: Coutinho money will go back into Liverpool team

He has never played better for Liverpool than between September and December this season.

Someone like Riyad Mahrez would be a quality addition but it seems that the Reds are eager about capturing Naby Keita right now. You pay it attention and you realise it happens but you can’t start thinking, ‘What are we going to do now that Phil is not here?’ It can’t be that at all. You can read it out of reactions.

“I think Barcelona have signed a top player who suits perfectly the way they have wanted to play for the last 20 years”, Guardiola said, as per the Mirror.

“You can not use him if he’s not 100 percent”.

The transfer of Coutinho from Liverpool was inevitable because Barcelona and Real Madrid always get their man as they remain the two clubs whose offers can not be refused. He might have reacted slowly at times in the market but has always picked up his preferred options rather than some compromised signings.

“Lose a challenge, miss a chance, stuff like that”.

“I agree the £142 million fee is astronomical”, Carragher continues, before saying that the sale of Coutinho in January “unnecessarily jeopardises Liverpool’s Champions League place for next season” and if they miss out on Champions League qualification “everyone will point at Coutinho’s sale” as the reason why.

Liverpool boss says Jurgen Klopp says they will not make insane things happen in the transfer window as they chase a replacement for Philippe Coutinho. They’ve always got a way of unlocking a team, whether it’s the weight of a pass or a back-heel, I just can’t see them not scoring at Anfield. “I think Donald Trump said I was fake news and there’s also some comedian guy Richy Sheehy who is claiming to be me online but they are telling lies”. If it’s a risk or not, it’s only in your judgement.

“The biggest thing I’ve had to learn is how this manager likes to stop situations at source and how he likes to attack is slightly different to how my manager before [Arsène Wenger] liked to attack”. “We came out to set the tempo of the game against a team that want a lot of the ball”.

“We don’t play “hero football”. No, we don’t have to look for that. “We will not make insane things”.

Raheem Sterling, lured away from Merseyside by Manchester City a year later, was another high-profile recent departure whose decision to walk away caused considerable angst among Reds supporters.

But he insists he did so because keeping him would have had a more detrimental effect despite his sublime form because of how strong Coutinho’s desire to join the La Liga side was. “That’s how life is and football is exactly the same”.