Brazil FA/FIFA to prevent Alisson , Fabinho and Firmino playing

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My mistake…

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Good info Limie, cheers.

One can’t escape the feeling that a reckoning is coming. The Prem is powerful and has money. It has a global audience and global appeal. The clubs in the Prem pay the wages of the stars they employ.

International football makes sense in an amateur, Corinthian sort of a way (I think it was Lowton Red who made that point) but to the degree that a bunch of stuffy old blazers who are barely emerging from amateurish ways want to run the show, well, there will be a reaction.

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I was referring to the language in the Joyce tweet.

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Completely agree, except that I think as holders of Brazilian passports our lads wouldn’t have had to quarantine on the way into Brazil.

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Seriously, even if coming from the UK?

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Brazil plays by the “a national passport beats covid rules”

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That’s what I read, presumably because Bolsonaro think Brazilians can’t get Covid?

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If the passport is blue then clearly beats covid?

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Finally they see sense.

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Interesting to see that it was Brazil’s FA who decided not to pursue it. From what I sensed, FIFA wasn’t on solid legal ground in terms of being able to exercise that authority, but I certainly don’t know the full story.

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I’d imagine FIFA pushed them in that direction.

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I’d wonder how much the UAE government paid…

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I thank you….

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I think Alisson will play, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Fabinho sit out, on the basis that Klopp will have had to prepare the game on the basis that he would be unavailable.

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Becker and Fabinho are in tonight’s lineup against Venezuela.

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They play in more than 24 hours.

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After tonight’s travel news…Will we have Ali n Fab available for Watford?

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I don’t think we will.

Brazil play Columbia and Venezuela. Both games are away. Both countries remain on the red list.

It’s pretty unlucky. Just 7 countries remain on the red list and our players are travelling to 2 of them !!

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Does ok Mane and Tsimikas mind and with Brazil playing Friday morning there was zero chance these two were playing against Watford anyhow

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Also looks like we won’t lose them at the next break, the problem was more to do with allowing three games in the break with the first on the Friday.

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