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Jurgen Klopp has criticized the new rules around Premier League clubs recruiting young players from abroad next year.
And the Liverpool manager says he doesn’t think the additional restrictions on player swapping across Europe will automatically create more opportunities for UK youth.
The GBE (Soccer Governing Body Endorsement) was approved by the Home Office after being presented to the government last month by the Soccer Association.
Under new post-Brexit transfer rules, clubs cannot sign foreign players under the age of 18 once the UK officially leaves the European Union later this year.
The GBE will instead operate a points-based system, in which marks are scored for young players based on a number of factors including international appearances at all levels, the quality of selling clubs, and senior appearances. .
For players who do not necessarily meet the criteria, there will be a process for clubs to present their case through a Waiver Panel.
Liverpool signed several teenagers from abroad last summer with players such as Fabian Mrozek, Mateusz Musialowski and Marcelo Pitaluga joining the academy ranks.
Those deals will come under much more scrutiny, and while Klopp was not involved in the talks from Liverpool’s perspective, he says he doesn’t see the merit of GBE’s proposals.
He also questioned the benefits the UK will feel once it leaves the EU.
“Michael Edwards was involved in a lot of these discussions and the clubs fought a lot for a solution, a kind of good solution or the best possible solution,” Klopp said.
“For me it’s just a decision and without discussion it would have been worse. I’m still waiting for the first Brexit advantage someone can tell me, which really improves after Brexit.”
“Obviously it’s not my thing to say or judge, but as a stakeholder, I just wait until the first really positive impact of Brexit.
“Maybe I didn’t read it because I’m too into football, but I don’t remember much to be honest.
“In football now, let’s use that as an example, people want, I think the FA or whatever, they want to make sure that the clubs don’t hire too many players from other countries because they fear that not enough English talent will make their way.
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“If you look at the English youth teams right now they are in the top two or three, if not the top, in almost every age group, 100 percent talent-wise and that’s how we did it before.
“So now, let’s think about why that happened. They had a lot of players around them who also played good football. It’s just useful.
“We can’t just create more [English] talents because we deny other talents. But, like I say, it’s not really my thing to judge.
“It’s just one of the smaller issues that we’ll all be aware of when Brexit is finally there.”
In the Premier League, the number of foreign players under the age of 21 that a club can sign will be limited to three in the January transfer window and six per season starting in 2021.
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