Philippe Coutinho has firmly disregarded questions about his professionalism following reviews of a clash with his Barcelona teammates at some stage in the latest three-3 draw with Celta Vigo.
Coutinho has been a ordinary feature for both former boss Ronald Koeman and meantime substitute Sergi Barjuan, who named the Brazilian at the bench for Saturday's sport - he remained on the bench during the game.
After the game, rumours emerged suggesting Coutinho's failure to seem was absolutely his doing, with Laia Tudel claiming (thru Albert Roge) that the 29-year-old declined Sergi Roberto's request for him to move warm up all through the sport, which allegedly induced a heated conflict with the squad's senior players backstage.
Well, Coutinho seems to disagree with that model of activities.
"I became very amazed when I noticed the information published because in my whole profession I actually have by no means lacked professionalism," he stated (through AS). "You can look at any membership I've been at, I even have usually respected all of us.
"Since I returned to play [following an injury] I haven't had a run of 4 or 5 games beginning to be at my high-quality degree. I sense excellent, and bodily, I am notable."
Coutinho has started 4 of his 11 appearances in all competitions this season however has been an unused replacement in every of his side's remaining two games, consisting of the 1-0 win over Dynamo Kyiv in the Champions League in advance this month.
The return of Ansu Fati, coupled with a temporary comeback from Ousmane Dembele, saw Coutinho drop down the pecking order, however even 19-yr-antique academy starlet Abde turned into given minutes in advance of him towards Celta Vigo.
With simply 18 months left on his agreement, Coutinho is expected to be up for sale next summer time as Barcelona desperately try and recover some of the £142m they paid to signal him from Liverpool in January 2018.
