Jurgen Klopp has hinted that Philippe Coutinho will be welcomed back by Liverpool despite attempting to engineer a move to Barcelona.
Coutinho’s future dominated the agenda at Anfield this summer as Barca tabled a series of failed offers, including one in excess of £100 million, for the playmaker.
The Brazil international had hoped to force through a switch to the Nou Camp with a transfer request on the eve of the Reds’ new Premier League campaign.
But Liverpool continued to hold firm and issued a ‘definitive’ statement on behalf of owners Fenway Sports Group insisting that Coutinho would not be sold.
Barca later signed Borussia Dortmund’s Ousmane Dembele for a nine-figure fee but Klopp insists there were differences between Liverpool and his former club.
“We have our situation and Dortmund had a different one,” he told Sport1.
“You shouldn’t believe everything that has been written by the press, or said by TV channels.
“Offers here and offers there, and a minute after that it should already be over.
“We are not at George Orwell, where everyone has everything immediately.
“We have exactly the situation that we wanted and no other: we still have a really good player in the squad.”