Barcelona have said Liverpool wanted 200m euros (\u00a3183m) for playmaker Philippe Coutinho on the final day of the Spanish transfer window on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Reds have turned down three offers from the Spanish club for the 25-year-old, who\u00a0put in a transfer request.<\/p>\n
“Liverpool were asking for 200m and logically we didn’t accept that,” said Barcelona director Albert Soler.<\/p>\n
“We thank the player for the efforts he made, because he did make a big effort and showed he wanted to play for us.”<\/p>\n
Soler, who was speaking at a news conference held by the La Liga club on Saturday, added: “The situation ended as it ended and there is nothing else we can do.”<\/p>\n
Barcelona wanted Coutinho after selling his Brazil team-mate\u00a0Neymar to Paris St-Germain\u00a0for a world record fee of \u00a3200m.<\/p>\n
Liverpool said Coutinho was not for sale and rejected bids of \u00a372m,\u00a0\u00a390mand\u00a0one in the region of \u00a3114m\u00a0prior to the deadline in Spain, which closed a day later than in England.<\/p>\n
Coutinho, who scored 14 goals last term and spent six weeks out with an ankle injury, signed a new five-year deal at Anfield in January which did not include a release clause.<\/p>\n
He then said he wanted to leave via email, a day before the Reds opened their Premier League campaign at Watford on 12 August.<\/p>\n
A back injury has forced him to miss all three top-flight games this season and the two legs of a Champions League qualifier against TSG Hoffenheim, which the Reds won 6-3 on aggregate.<\/p>\n
However, the midfielder made his first appearance of the season when he\u00a0played for Brazil in a 2-0 win over Ecuador\u00a0in a World Cup qualifier on Thursday, scoring the second goal.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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