Jurgen Klopp makes Philippe Coutinho feelings clear after Liverpool transfer warning was ignored

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Jurgen Klopp has lifted the lid on his disappointment in Philippe Coutinho’s exit from Liverpool in 2018 - despite the Brazilian’s departure paving the way for the Reds’ subsequent success in the following years. Coutinho had established himself as one of Liverpool’s stars by the time Barcelona came calling during the 2017/18 season, and Klopp had tried to convince him not to make the move to the Camp Nou.

After his exit from Anfield, Coutinho and Liverpool would go on to experience very different fortunes. Despite the huge benefit that Coutinho’s sale brought for Liverpool, Klopp has insisted that he wanted to keep the Brazilian.

Learn more “I don't know the United problems but Liverpool was the same, on the day we sold Phil Coutinho, that's not the day I thought, 'oh, good we have the money' - I lost a player I wanted to work with for the next 10 years. "We invested it smartly, that's true, but it's not we found the position and sorted it, we had to sort something differently, we found two players in Alisson and [Virgil] Van Dijk, that was for the future to go from there, and that's the difference I think." Liverpool.com says: Who knows what would have happened had Liverpool managed to keep hold of Coutinho.