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Liverpool dressing room will be angry with Philippe Coutinho when he returns after Barca saga - Collymore.

Publish 04-09-2017 By Yayo

The 26-year-old handed in a transfer request in hope of joining the La Liga giants before the window shut last week.

Barcelona made three bids for the Brazil international but Liverpool refused to sell their star man.

And Collymore says the Liverpool dressing room will be angry with Coutinho, claiming some experienced players will give him both barrels.

“In dressing rooms, these situations tend to go one of two ways for players such as Philippe Coutinho, Virgil van Dijk and Alexis Sanchez, who have all agitated for moves this summer,” Collymore wrote in his Daily Mirror column.

“They might give him both barrels - ‘You’re taking the ****, you’re bang out of order’”

“Players who are a bit younger and trying to make their way in the game will say, ‘Well, he’s been a bit of a **** for what he has done, but he’s a great player and when he comes back I’m not going to treat him any differently than I did before’.

“Then there’ll be the more senior players - the manager’s lieutenants - who’ll rattle his cage and make sure he knows where he stands.

“They might give him both barrels - ‘You’re taking the ****, you’re bang out of order’ - or they might go down the more subtle route, which can often be worse than being fronted up.

“Every mis-kick, every chance that goes begging, even every stretch will be chipped away at.

“At Liverpool, I’d expect Jordan Henderson and James Milner to maybe give him a little reminder that his best course of action is to get his head down and work his backside off for the club.

“They’ll be saying, ‘If Barcelona come in for you in January, good for you, but now is the time to knuckle down’.”