REDS’ NOU PHIL FIGHT

Luis Suarez

FANS favourite Suarez tried to force a move away in the summer of 2013, prompting the infamous and ill-fated £40,000,001 bid from Arsenal. Suarez shrugged that off to score 31 league goals, but then got banned for four months for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini in the 2014 World Cup. With Liverpool’s patience exhausted, Barca swooped to sign him for £75million. FROM BACK PAGE close a world-record £200million deal for forward Neymar, with Barca chiefs increasingly convinced he wants out.

Midfielder Coutinho is top of the La Liga side’s wanted list if they lose his Brazil team-mate to the French club.

And Liverpool have been desperately fighting off interest from the Catalans, so far resisting all approaches.

The Reds have suggested that an offer of £100m would not tempt them to sell a player who has just signed a new contract, but in Brazil it is claimed Coutinho is ready to move to Spain.

Neymar, 25, was angered by a challenge from Semedo (right) during a session in Miami as part of Barca’s North American tour. He reacted angrily, confronting the Portugal star, and then needed to be restrained before ripping off his bib and leaving the training ground. He is also alleged to have cancelled a promotional engagement in China next week. Barca need the Neymar cash to bid for Coutinho, 25, who they see as a successor to Andres Iniesta, 33, whose contract expires next summer. But they would also look at Tottenham’s Dele Alli and Chelsea’s Eden Hazard. However, Blues boss Antonio Conte said: “In the past I read stories about Hazard with Real Madrid. And now Barca. “But he is very happy to stay with us.”