Barcelona have no intention of bringing Philippe Coutinho back from a loan spell at Bayern Munich, with a club spokesman branding reports to the contrary “made up”.
It had been suggested that the Liga giants were preparing to cut short a season-long agreement with fellow European heavyweights.
A move to Germany was sanctioned for Coutinho ahead of the 2019-20 campaign and he was allowed to head out of Camp Nou after struggling to prove his worth across 18 months in Catalunya.
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A big-money deal was done to prise him away from Liverpool in January 2018, but Barca saw little return on their sizeable investment.