Liverpool should form a guard of honour for Philippe Coutinho before the game away to Aston Villa tonight. Few players did more to facilitate the Jurgen Klopp revolution at Anfield than the Brazilian.
The 29-year-old will be trying to kill off Liverpool’s quest for the quadruple once and for all tonight but even if he is able to impose himself at Villa Park, his trajectory since he left Merseyside four years ago has been chastening. On the face of it, moves to Barcelona and Bayern Munich should be the sort of upward steps any player would crave, especially given Liverpool’s status when he departed. Yet his spells at the Nou Camp and the Allianz were deeply disappointing.
