Jurgen Klopp has urged FIFA to consider regulating the transfer window.
The Liverpool manager’s suggestion comes amid Mohamed Salah’s renewed links with Al Ittihad despite the club maintaining its not-for-sale stance.
Salah’s agent Ramy Abbas Issa also reiterated that the Egyptian remains ‘committed’ to Anfield despite the Saudi Pro League club’s initial interest.
But Saudi Pro League clubs still have the option to sign players before their deadline on September 20, almost three weeks after the European window.
Against that backdrop, Klopp believes that world football’s governing body could instigate a level playing field by ensuring a more level playing field.
He said: “It’s not comfortable, it’s not cool for us but that’s how it is.
“If we go to, say, Wigan [for a signing], they usually tell us the price and we pay it probably.
“With big clubs that’s how it is. In the Bundesliga, Bayern go to Arminia [Bielefeld], they cannot react and that’s the way it goes.
“There’s a next level, it’s not great. It’s part of the business and I’m not sure you can change it or if someone will.
“But what makes it not possible to deal with is when our window shuts and theirs remains open.
“From [the deadline] we play until January 1 and that’s our team, that’s what everybody’s used to.
“In the past with Russia, a long time ago thankfully, they had the different window but that was not completely crazy money.
“[Saudi Arabia] is new and challenging for everybody but we have to learn to deal with it.
“The authorities should make clear that if you want to be in the system, we do business at the same time as all others.
“FIFA could do that if they wanted to.”