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Barcelona owe £84m for Philippe Coutinho - but Liverpool are set to receive just £4.5m.

The Catalan giants splashed out £142m on the Brazilian back in 2018, snapping him up as a replacement for Andres Iniesta.

Liverpool received £105m up front for the sale of Coutinho, with the remaining £37million set to be paid in installments.

The vast majority of this money has already been paid to Liverpool but Barcelona's financial accounts for last season showed the Reds are still owed £84m for the Brazilian.

Of this amount £24m is due in the short term, and will be paid by the end of the season, with the remaining £60m set to be paid on an unspecified date in the future.

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But Liverpool will only be receiving a further £4.5m from Barcelona, because £75.5m of the fee appears to be payable to a third party lender, according to the club's accounts.

Liverpool have already received £138m from the sale of Coutinho, and reinvested this money in Virgil van Dijk and Alisson.

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Barcelona had high hopes for Coutinho after finally convincing Liverpool to let the Brazilian go in the 2018 January transfer window.

But things didn't work out for the midfielder at the Nou Camp and his was shipped out on loan to Bayern Munich.