When Coutinho was with us, too much was played through him, if we were lacking attacking invention, players gave him the ball, he used to waste allot of possession/chances by taking long ranges shots, he scored some great goals, but allot used to miss, giving up decent attacking positions. We are a better team now with attacking options from the wingbacks, we stretch teams and exploit space rather rather the intricate dribbling we relied upon from Coutinho, he was a good player but we are better as a team now.
He will be 28 in the summer, I do not see us spending £60+ million on a player who is a similar age to Mane, Salah & Firmino and will have little sell on value, I expect we will bring in a younger player(s) that Klopp will develop, which is what he generally does best, to then go on and replace the likes of Salah when we sell them on.
Having said all that, I would welcome Coutinho back, I just don't see it happening and think we could get allot better value from that money, I hold no grudge against him, infact, I think we owe allot of out current success to him, his money brought in VvD, Alisson & Fab, so thanks Phil!
