Philippe Coutinho will receive a winners’ medal should Liverpool lift this season’s Champions League.
Coutinho sealed a £142 million move to Barcelona in January and was cup-tied in Europe’s elite club competition after previously featuring for the Reds.
His new club crashed out of the Champions League on away goals in a 4-4 aggregate with Roma while Jurgen Klopp’s side progressed to the semi-final.
But the Brazil international would still be eligible for a medal in the event of Liverpool winning the competition as a member of their original squad.
Coutinho made five appearances in the Anfield club’s successful group campaign and recorded a hat-trick in a 7-0 win over Spartak Moscow.
Last month Klopp claimed that the playmaker’s departure to the Nou Camp had made Liverpool a less predictable outfit to play against.
“On a good day it makes you more unpredictable if you don’t have this dominant player but on another day you miss a player like that,” he said at the time.
“Phil Coutinho was a very dominant player in our game and when we were not at our best it was always a good idea to give him the ball, maybe he has an idea.
“But it was always clear when Phil didn’t play we had to do the job differently, to put responsibility on different shoulders and spread it between the players.
“You can never be sure it will work but now it is a few weeks ago and I am really happy with the reaction of the boys, they stepped up.
“Of course we were fighting for Phil, we wanted to keep him here and in the end he decided differently. I am happy it has worked so far pretty well.
“But it feels like it is already a few months ago. I am happy it has worked quite well but I am only interested in how it will work tomorrow and not in the last few weeks.”