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Years: <\/strong>2013-2017<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Appearances: <\/strong>201<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Goals: <\/strong>54<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Liverpool benefited from five years\u2019 worth of Brazilian magic from Philippe Coutinho. <\/p>\n The January 2013 arrival from Internazionale always had that brilliant eye for a pass but later added goals \u2013 quite often spectacular ones \u2013 to his skillset while at Anfield. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a phenomenal footballer,\u201d Steven Gerrard<\/u><\/strong> once said of his teammate, a player he would later sign as a manager. \u201cHe can do magical things with the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n A hugely impressive debut half-season was a sign of things to come from the No.10, who delivered eight goal involvements from 13 outings. <\/p>\n He thrived in a role behind Daniel Sturridge<\/u><\/strong> and Luis Suarez<\/u><\/strong> when the Reds produced an unlikely challenge for the Premier League title in 2013-14. <\/p>\n His importance to the team grew year on year, appearing 52 times in Brendan Rodgers<\/u><\/strong>\u2019 final full campaign in charge, 2014-15.<\/p>\n Coutinho\u2019s game and responsibility were elevated even further under Jurgen Klopp<\/u><\/strong>although silverware continued to evade him after defeats in the finals of the League Cup and Europa League in 2015-16.<\/p>\n A return to Champions League football was clinched, however, in 2016-17 as Coutinho racked up 14 goals and nine assists, despite missing six weeks due to injury. <\/p>\n By that point he was one of the Premier League\u2019s brightest talents and drew interest from Barcelona, although Liverpool blocked a move there in the summer of 2017. <\/p>\n Coutinho had scored 12 times in the first part of 2017-18 before his wish to head to Spain was granted in the January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Years: 2013-2017 Appearances: 201 Goals: 54 Liverpool benefited from five years\u2019 worth of Brazilian magic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}