Jurgen Klopp has condemned new quarantine plans for players returning from ‘red zone’ countries.
Footballers who are fully vaccinated will still be required to self-isolate in ‘bespoke quarantine facilities’ under the UK government’s revised strategy.
Temporary breaks in their 10-day quarantine period have been permitted in order to allow players to train and play matches with their respective teams.
Four Liverpool players – Alisson, Fabinho, Kostas Tsimikas and Sadio Mane – are set to be affected after representing their countries from next week.
The move comes after Premier League clubs were embroiled in a stand-off with the Brazilian football association after refusing to release their players.
But Klopp insists that the new legislation does not remedy the issues which arose during the previous international break around quarantine measures.
He said: “It’s 10 days quarantine, allowed to play the games, allowed to go to work, not allowed to live at home but don’t have to live in a hotel chosen by the authorities.
“You can choose the hotel yourself, but food has to be delivered in front of your room door. You are not allowed to have any visitors.
“If that’s the solution, I don’t know where it’s coming from.
“That would mean for the players that they go for 10-12 days with their national teams, then they go another 10 days away from their families into quarantine.
“That’s 22 days, and then two weeks later there’s the next international break. That doesn’t sound to me like a real solution.”
The Reds’ manager also questioned the government’s logic in labelling Brazil and other areas as ‘red list’ when such restrictions do not exist elsewhere in Europe.
“Brazil and Georgia and other countries are on the red-list for England, but they are not for France, Germany or Spain,” added Klopp.
“The players there can come back and play immediately. Those countries can send their players, they can come back and have their normal life.
“If the situation in Brazil is that bad, we have to react. But why does France, Germany, Italy, Spain think it’s not that bad? I don’t know.
“Why can their players go back and play on and have the life they had before, yet here they have to go for 10 days in a hotel with food deliveries?”