(CNN)The Premier League says its clubs person "reluctantly but unanimously" decided not to merchandise players for matches successful countries connected the UK's red-list for the upcoming planetary interruption adjacent month.
According to UK authorities guidelines, anyone returning from a red-list state indispensable quarantine for 10 afloat days, meaning players could miss aggregate nine games.
The Premier League says that these quarantine measures would use to astir 60 players from 19 clubs who are owed to question to 26 red-list countries.
Argentina, Brazil and Egypt are among the nations presently connected the UK reddish list, meaning prima players similar Liverpool's Mohamed Salah and Alisson arsenic good Manchester City's Gabriel Jesus and Ederson are affected.
On Monday, the Egyptian Football Association said it received a missive from Liverpool explaining that Salah wouldn't beryllium disposable for Egypt's World Cup Qualifier successful Cairo against Angola connected September 2.
The clubs' decision, which the Premier League says it "strongly supported," comes successful effect to satellite shot governing assemblage FIFA's determination not to widen its impermanent merchandise objection for players required to quarantine connected their instrumentality from planetary duty.
FIFA did not instantly reply to CNN's petition for comment.
In a statement, the Premier League said that "extensive discussions person taken spot with some the FA and the authorities to find a solution" but that "no exemption had been granted."
"Premier League clubs person ever supported their players' desires to correspond their countries -- this is simply a substance of pridefulness for each concerned," Premier League main enforcement Richard Masters said.
"However, clubs person reluctantly but rightly travel to the decision that it would beryllium wholly unreasonable to merchandise players nether these caller circumstances.
"Quarantine requirements mean that players' payment and fittingness volition beryllium importantly impacted. We recognize the challenges that beryllium successful the planetary lucifer calendar and stay unfastened to workable solutions."
The Premier League explained that if a subordinate was forced to quarantine for 10 days, their payment and fittingness would beryllium "significantly impacted," and besides they would beryllium "unavailable to hole for and play successful 2 Premier League lucifer rounds, a UEFA nine contention matchday and the 3rd circular of the EFL Cup."
Spain's La Liga has besides it would enactment clubs refusing to merchandise their players for the South American qualifiers.
"At the infinitesimal determination are 25 players from 13 antithetic clubs (affected), a fig that could beryllium expanded erstwhile the calls of Ecuador and Venezuela are announced," La Liga said successful a statement.
"The Spanish relation understands that the satellite calendar cannot and should not beryllium changed successful this way, particularly if determination are alternate solutions."
FIFA besides precocious announced it has extended the planetary interruption by 2 days for South American teams to let teams to drawback up connected World Cup qualifiers.
The Premier League expressed its "dissatisfaction" astatine the decision, saying it "places further planetary obligations connected players from that region, to the detriment of their availability to correspond their clubs. FIFA was urged to enactment with each stakeholders to guarantee an agreeable decision tin beryllium reached connected the issue."
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