Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp explains why he thinks that Saudi spending is 'like a threat or a concern'.
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00:00 Alexander Sheffrin, you were with?
00:02 Oh, that's right.
00:03 He doesn't think that the Saudi league is a threat to the victims of Europe,
00:07 because he said from Baffee and Harlan, "Don't dream of playing in Saudi Arabia."
00:11 And then I can play alone here, no problem.
00:14 I think the next two weeks will show how much of a challenge it is,
00:20 because whatever happens there, obviously, nobody can react anymore.
00:25 That's something I think UEFA or whoever should have an eye on,
00:32 to solve that, because we all have to protect the game,
00:36 and we want to, it's not a league or whatever, it's the game.
00:40 We have to make sure that these European leagues and his UEFA boss,
00:43 they stay as strong as they are, and for that we always can help
00:49 from these kind of things, like changing rules slightly, adapting rules,
00:54 making some laws, whatever, laws or rules which make sense.
00:59 We are all a bit surprised, still probably in that sense,
01:02 by the activity from Saudi Arabia, but it happened a lot,
01:06 and a lot of players went there, and that improves the league.
01:09 I don't know where it will lead to, but it feels rather...
01:15 More important things than that, but rather like a threat or a concern than not,
01:21 to be honest, because I can see how we really can...
01:26 ..deny it in these specific moments.
01:32 What can we do? Say no, and then we can do that,
01:37 but the difference between the contracts here and there are that big,
01:42 that causes problems, definitely, 100 per cent.