Barcelona ace Philippe Coutinho rules out Premier League return

Philippe Coutinho has said that 'returning to England does not fit into his plans' and has ruled out an end-of-season exit from Barcelona.

The Brazil international has been linked with Chelsea and Manchester United in recent months, despite only being in his first full season as a Barca player.

Coutinho's time at Camp Nou has not gone entirely to plan so far, having been in and out of the side when Ernesto Valverde has had a fully-fit squad to choose from.

Amid reports that Barcelona are ready to take a big hit on Coutinho, though, the ex-Liverpool playmaker has insisted that he does not intend to leave anytime soon.

"This is my second season here. I have won titles but I am always an ambitious and demanding player," he is quoted as saying by The Mirror.

"So, I want more and more. But I'm happy. I wanted to play in Spain and I'm at the best club in Spain. My head is exclusively in Barcelona. Returning to England now does not fit into my plans."

Coutinho, who signed for Barcelona in a £142m deal 15 months ago, has started 19 La Liga games for Barca this term.

	Team	P	GD	PTS
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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Liverpool	33	25	7	1	75	20	55	82
2	Manchester City Man City	32	26	2	4	83	21	62	80
3	Chelsea	33	20	6	7	57	34	23	66
4	Tottenham Hotspur Spurs	32	21	1	10	60	34	26	64
5	Arsenal	32	19	6	7	65	40	25	63
6	Manchester United Man Utd	32	18	7	7	61	43	18	61
7	Leicester City Leicester	33	14	5	14	46	44	2	47
8	Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolves	32	13	8	11	40	39	1	47
9	Everton	33	13	7	13	46	42	4	46
10	Watford	32	13	7	12	47	47	0	46
11	West Ham United West Ham	33	12	6	15	41	50	-9	42
12	Crystal Palace	33	11	6	16	39	43	-4	39
13	Bournemouth	33	11	5	17	44	61	-17	38
14	Burnley	33	10	6	17	40	60	-20	36
15	Newcastle United Newcastle	33	9	8	16	31	43	-12	35
16	Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton	31	9	6	16	32	46	-14	33
17	Southampton	32	8	9	15	36	53	-17	33
18	Cardiff City Cardiff	32	8	4	20	28	61	-33	28
R	Fulham	33	4	5	24	30	76	-46	17
R	Huddersfield Town Huddersfield	33	3	5	25	19	63	-44	14

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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Brescia	30	15	12	3	62	38	24	57
2	Lecce	31	15	9	7	56	40	16	54
3	Palermo	30	14	11	5	46	29	17	53
4	Benevento Benevento	30	14	8	8	47	35	12	50
5	Hellas Verona Hellas Verona	31	12	12	7	44	35	9	48
6	Pescara	31	13	9	9	44	42	2	48
7	Cittadella	30	11	12	7	39	27	12	45
8	Perugia	30	13	5	12	43	43	0	44
9	Spezia Calcio Spezia Calcio	30	12	7	11	44	38	6	43
10	Ascoli Ascoli	30	9	12	9	34	45	-11	39
11	Cremonese	30	9	11	10	30	28	2	38
12	Cosenza Calcio Cosenza	31	9	11	11	28	36	-8	38
13	Salernitana	30	9	8	13	33	40	-7	35
14	Crotone	31	8	9	14	32	39	-7	33
15	Foggia Calcio Foggia	30	8	12	10	37	42	-5	30
16	Venezia Venezia	30	6	12	12	27	36	-9	30
17	Livorno Livorno	30	7	9	14	29	43	-14	30
18	Carpi Carpi	30	6	7	17	30	55	-25	25
19	Padova Padova	31	4	12	15	29	43	-14	24

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