Speaking to the club’s official website, Jurgen Klopp has revealed that the Reds are unlikely to rush Philippe Coutinho back to the side and so it’s unlikely he won’t be playing tomorrow.
The Reds travel to Manchester City on Saturday for the lunch time game in a match that is surely going to yield a great deal of attacking football.
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But, despite playing for Brazil this international break just gone, it seems as though Coutinho is not going to be playing at the Etihad.
Indeed, Klopp said:
“I know what people think, but Phil had the back problem a few weeks ago and couldn’t train so that means he missed around about three weeks.
“Yes, he went to the national team and trained normally, but now we have to prepare for a normal season so we have seven games [before the next international break] and we saw training this morning and thought ‘OK, maybe we should use him immediately’ because he was really good, but that doesn’t make sense.
“We have now to continue with the pre-season, not too long, but in a few sessions we have to give ourselves the time because in the next month we have seven games.”
Coutinho, then, looks set for some kind of mini pre-season regime before playing for the Reds and so it remains to be seen just how long it is before he features for the club once again this year.
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