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Jurgen Klopp insists he is ready to use Philippe Coutinho in a number of positions this season.

The Liverpool boss believes his Brazilian star should not be “fixed” into a specific role, with his talent allowed to flourish naturally.

Coutinho spent much of last season operating from the left of the Reds' front three, his position described as “a wing 10” by Klopp back in May .

But he shone in the final weeks of the season from a deeper midfield station, and did so again as Liverpool beat Leicester to win the Premier League Asia Trophy in Hong Kong at the weekend.

Klopp, though, is ready to keep an open mind over the 25-year-old.

“He is not fixed and he should not be fixed,” he said. “Look against Leicester. Gini (Wijnaldum) and Hendo couldn’t play together because we have these two players for the No 6 at the moment. Either one or the other.

“Of course they can play together but you couldn't do it (against Leicester)

“Then with Adam (Lallana) and Phil and Gini it was really offensive. We need to have these different options.

“Systems are not that important. They are important of course but not as much if you can play different systems. You can play every system that you know, as long as they make sense. This at the moment is how we have to work with the players.

“So it makes for us the most sense like this and Phil can play every day in about five positions - in all these different systems. It's cool. You have to do the right thing at the right moment.

“Which position we play, I don't care.”

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Coutinho, of course, has been the subject of a big-money bid from Barcelona recently, with Liverpool adamant their star man will not be sold for any price this summer.

“The very important message is that we are not a selling club and that's how it is,” Klopp insisted last week .