Bengaluru, August 15: Liverpool superstar Philippe Coutinho has dominated the news in recent weeks and things became more interesting since the weekend, when the Brazilian submitted a transfer request just a few hours after Liverpool released a club statement that the Brazilian will not be sold at any cost.
The Liverpool number ten has been left out of the club's squad ahead of their Champions League play-off first leg against Hoffenheim to fuel more speculation on the Brazilian's future.
The Reds will take on Julian Nagelsmann's ambitious Bundesliga outfit over two legs to contest a place for the group stages of Europe's top-tier tournament and they will have to do it without their best player of the last few years.
The 25-year-old missed Liverpool's 3-3 draw with Watford on Saturday (August 12) due to a supposed back injury after a transfer request was handed into the board a day prior to the premier league opener.
Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group issued a statement on Friday (August 11) morning, reiterating their intentions to keep the Brazilian a few hours before the player expressed his desire to leave.
Barcelona are still trying to find a player to fill the void left by Neymar after his transfer to PSG earlier this month and are pushing Liverpool to sell their priced asset which has definitely played a big role behind the unsettling of the star at Anfield.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp conceded on Saturday that the situation was out of his hands. He explained: "As a manager of a football club, I have bosses."
"That decide, for example, just in general, if we sell a player or we don't sell him. Then I have to accept it."
Here is the full squad for clash with Hoffenheim:
Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alberto Moreno, Dejan Lovren, James Milner, Gini Wijnaldum, Jordan Henderson, Emre Can, Sadio Mane, Mohammed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Ryan Kent, Dominic Solanke, Divock Origi, Joe Gomez, Ragnar Klavan, John Flanagan, Andrew Robertson, Joel Matip, Marko Grujic, Simon Mignolet, Lorius Karius, Danny Ward