sport news Jurgen Klopp STILL doesn't know if he can play Alisson, Fabinho and Roberto ...

sport news Jurgen Klopp STILL doesn't know if he can play Alisson, Fabinho and Roberto ...
sport news Jurgen Klopp STILL doesn't know if he can play Alisson, Fabinho and Roberto ...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is uncertain whether the club's Brazilian trio Alisson, Fabinho and Roberto Firmino will be able to face Leeds on Sunday.

Klopp was heavily critical of the South American football authorities over their handling of the situation, with other Premier League clubs such as Manchester City and Chelsea also set to be affected.

Liverpool refused to allow Alisson, Fabinho and Firmino to travel to red-list countries, but the Brazilian FA are set to respond by imposing a five-day restriction on the players they called up for the games against Chole, Argentina and Peru, even though they didn't play.  

Jurgen Klopp still doesn't know if Alisson, Fabinho and Roberto Firmino can face Leeds

Jurgen Klopp still doesn't know if Alisson, Fabinho and Roberto Firmino can face Leeds

Liverpool refused to release goalkeeper Alisson for Brazil's international fixtures this month

Liverpool refused to release goalkeeper Alisson for Brazil's international fixtures this month

Klopp feels that the situation could have been handled better.

Asked about the availability of the trio, Klopp told the club's official website: 'I can say what I know: I don't know in the moment. We will see, there are meetings going on.

'The thing I want to say about that is just, let's look at the full case. So, we all know we are in the middle of a pandemic, which is difficult for all parts of life and for football it was difficult as well. We have a few more games to play than we have to play usually internationally. We had a summer break where all of a sudden somebody organised again a Copa America, where they could have played the games, for example, without playing a Copa America, which they had a year before.'

Fabinho could be stopped from playing by the Brazilian FA

There are also concerns about the availability of Roberto Firmino

Fabinho (left) and Roberto Firmino (right) also didn't travel but may now face restrictions

Klopp stressed that Liverpool weren't consulted over the scheduling for the South American fixtures, with Brazil playing qualifiers less than two months after their involvement at the Copa America. 

He said: 'But people decide without us these kind of things. OK, nobody cares, that's how it is. They play a Copa America, then they still have more games to play. Then a week or 10 days before the international break we get, 'OK, we play now three games and the last game is on Thursday night.' So we have nothing to do with that. Friday morning, by the way. Friday morning, 1.20am, would have been

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