Liverpool transfer news: Jurgen Klopp discusses club's attempts to find Philippe Coutinho replacement

Coutinho completed his protracted move to Barcelona in January, leaving the club in a £146m transfer

Philippe Coutinho moved to Barcelona earlier this year (Getty)

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has insisted the club have no need to fill the void left by Philippe Coutinho.

Coutinho completed his protracted move to Barcelona in January, leaving the club in a £146m transfer.

Since then Liverpool have splashed the cash on the likes of Vergil van Dijk, Naby Keita, Xherdan Shaqiri and Brazil duo Fabinho and Alisson, but are yet to sign a like-for-like replacement for Coutinho.

And Klopp has said the club would be wasting their time attempting to find one.

“You cannot replace Phil Coutinho with exactly the same kind of player,” Klopp said.

“He's Phil Coutinho. He has a specific style of play, tactically an outstanding player, can play as the winger, the '10', the '8' - really great.

“I don't want to put one of my players in the position where people will now say constantly 'he's the Phil replacement'.

“I think the biggest thing we did in the second half of last season was that we didn't need to speak too much about Phil. That wasn't clear in January. How could we have known that?

“If we had still had Phil then we could have played with Phil in the final. Mo (Salah) goes out [injured], but Phil still there. Phil on the left wing, bring Sadio (Mane) to the other side, bring a midfielder on - it's a different story. It would have been nice but he wasn't here any more. We wish him well.

Philippe Coutinho moved to Barcelona earlier this year (Getty)

“We don't need to replace Phil. We need to make a squad for the next year. Out there on the market, there isn't a Phil Coutinho light. It's not there. But there are a lot of good players and we have brought a few of them in.”