Brazil’s FA have dropped their demand for Fabinho and Alisson to miss Liverpool’s next two games.
The pair faced the genuine threat of sitting out Sunday’s clash against Leeds United as well as next week’s Champions League group opener with AC Milan.
A further four Premier League clubs were set to be punished refusing to release their players for the World Cup qualifiers played in Covid ‘red zones’.
But a statement by FIFA, who planned to uphold the Brazilian Football Confederation’s request, confirmed that the Reds’ duo will now be available.
Jurgen Klopp claimed the initial decision to prevent players from representing their clubs showed world football’s governing body ‘do not care’ about their welfare.
“My personal opinion is that nobody should be banned because there was no solution to get around the problem,” the Liverpool manager said on Friday.
“They gave us three games [in the international break] and we, as we always do, were happy to let the players go but we couldn’t because when they come back they cannot play for at least four games [if they had to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days].
“We cannot sit here and just say: ‘Yes, no problem, let them go,’ because we did not make any of these decisions.
“We did not ask for three games in the international break. At the last possible moment they played the third game in South America. Nobody thinks about players.
“People say ‘Klopp only thinks about Liverpool because he doesn’t have his Brazilians’. No – there is a problem in football
” Somebody organises a tournament and doesn’t care about the players who have to be part of that tournament. That is the situation at the moment.
“It doesn’t sound right because it is not right.”