Graeme Souness says Liverpool must accept Barcelona’s £136million offer for Philippe Coutinho, insisting he is not even the Merseyside club’s best player.

After having three bids rejected, Barca are to make a fourth and final attempt to lure the Brazilian playmaker to the Nou Camp.

Liverpool have insisted all summer they will not be selling Coutinho but, with the 25-year-old making it clear he wants to go, Souness is urging the club to take the money.

“Players normally get their way at the end of the day and with the sort of cash that is being offered now, I’d be snapping their hand off,” the former Reds star and manager told talkSPORT.

“That kind of money you can’t say no to. Is he that good? For that sort of money you want a player that is a game-changer, the difference in big games, and I don’t see him as that.

“Yeah, he is an attractive little footballer, he is neat and tidy on the ball, he wrong-foots people, he scores some wonder goals, but at that sort of level I would take the money.

“I don’t see him being a Suarez or a Neymar.”

Souness insists Coutinho is not even Liverpool’s mot influential player, adding: “That would be Sadio Mane.

“Coutinho is six, seven goals a season. Does he turn up in the real big games? Mane is the man for me.”