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23rd September 2017
12:48pm BST

The first offer, according to the email thread, was roughly £72 million but Liverpool's response was firm, as the Merseyside club informed Barcelona that Coutinho was "not for sale at any price."
The next proposed fee for the 25-year-old arrived in early August and was £90 million but Michael Edwards , Liverpool's sporting director, replied resolutely: "I ask you amicably to stop harassing Coutinho publicly and privately.
"No amount of money will change our minds."As the end of the transfer window drew nearer, Barcelona returned with a third and ultimately final offer which was a whopping £114 million but that too was turned down. The correspondence also revealed that Liverpool never put a pricetag of £183 million on the player, a suggestion which was made by Barcelona. Coutinho has recently returned to competitive action for Liverpool and is in contention to start against Leicester in Saturday's late Premier League kick-off.
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