Philippe Coutinho has agreed terms on a new contract to 2020 at Liverpool.

Coutinho joined Liverpool for £8.5 million from Inter two years ago and Brendan Rodgers is bullish on his ability to become a world class midfielder like Luka Modric and Toni Kroos.

“We have seen young Phil come into his own over the last couple of months purely because of the movement up front,” Rodgers said. “He is the type of player who is creative and looks for the last pass but for that you need the movement in front of the ball and people to penetrate in behind. At the beginning of the season we didn’t quite have that in the team so he was having longer on the ball and maybe getting caught on it more.

“But you can see he is in a real good moment. He is playing a lot of games and we are trying to manage him but his performances are at a really high level which is great to see because he’s a little magician with the ball.

“His courage and bravery to get on the ball is fantastic. If he can continue to improve, and there are areas where he can improve like his goalscoring, then he can get into that bracket of being world class.”