Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has issued a warning to the rest of Europe about the Saudi Pro League, whose transfer window only closes next week.
The Saudi Pro League have been able to attract some big names in the last few weeks, including Karim Benzema, N'Golo Kante, Riyad Mahrez and Sadio Mane, while Cristiano Ronaldo had already joined earlier this year.
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The Reds have already lost Jordan Henderson and Fabinho to Saudi league while Mohamed Salah reportedly remains the subject of interest from Al-Ittihad and Klopp wants the Saudi Pro League transfer window to close at the same time as the European window.
"I think the next two weeks will show how much of a challenge it is, because whatever happens there, obviously, nobody can react any more," Klopp said, as per Mirror.
"That's something I think UEFA or whoever should have an eye on. Because we all have to protect the game, and we want [to].
"It's not illegal, it's the game, and obviously I love all my players who play now in Saudi Arabia. It's not like it distracts me now from my watching habits, but we have to make sure all these European leagues... stay as strong as they are.
"We always can help from these kinds of things, like changing rules slightly, adapting rules, making some laws, whatever. We're all a bit surprised probably in that sense, by the activity from Saudi Arabia, but it happened a lot. A lot of players went there and it improves the league there, definitely.
"That's the situation, so I don't know where it will lead to but it feels rather like a threat or a concern than not, to be honest, because I can't see how we really can deny it in these specific moments. What can we do? Say no? That's the difference between the contracts here and the contracts there that causes problems, 100 per cent."
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