Philippe Coutinho will not join Bayern Munich permanently - but the club's chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has opened the door to another loan move for the Brazilian.
“The option expired and we haven’t activated it," Rummenigge told German magazine Der Spiegel on Friday.
"We’re going to plan our squad for next season and we'll see if he still has a role to play with us or not.”
Coutinho played a starring role for Liverpool before leaving for Barcelona in a £130million deal in January 2018.
The Brazilian failed to nail down a starting spot at Barca, leading to his loan move to the Bundesliga this season.
It is thought the Catalan Club are keen to offload Coutinho - or at least get him off the wage bill by sending him out on another loan.
Mirror Sport understands that Liverpool have no interest in taking Coutinho back, but several of their Premier League rivals have been credited with an interest in the midfielder, with Chelsea believed to be at the front of the queue.
Coutinho made 32 appearances in all competitions for Bayern this season, scoring nine goals and posting eight assists. He is currently recovering from ankle surgery.
valvido12
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Very stingy club and so deceptive, that’s how they loaned James Rodriguez and ddnt sign him eventually, Perisic will most likely be returned to Intermilan, all they do is use your players and dumped them back @ your doorsteps, they want only German players ( Sane / Kai Haverts / Timo Werner )
McGee1289
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It’s sad to see a talent like him going to waste I hope Setien has a spot for him in the Barca squad where he can play the football that we know him for
BrankoJovic
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This Bayern team could win ucl.
olisa
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If this Guys life does not teach you anything in this life, nothing would, Good luck Coutinho
Flashbang
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Bayern will never spend 100m on any player, even if its Messi available.
DarkKing2010
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This is what Happens when you runs back after Money, you totally Destroy yourself just like Neymar who ran back after PSG because of Money while if he would have Stayed at Barcelona, he would have had a Ballon d'or.
DarkKing2010
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Life Lesson : - Never Run back After Money
laeabeilmu
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Bayern will never spend 100m on any player, even if its Messi available.
lol you have no idea about Bayern's finances just worry about your debt ridden try hard club last thing we want to do is buy players at double there worth like Barcelona do and end up up with your financial mess your board should be ashamed of them selves where ours is the best in world football! watch what we spend to rebuild a whole team and the qaulity we will have a again at 1/3 the price!! 😭🤣🤣🤣🤣👍