Premier League – Jürgen Klopp: Vaccination status for transfers is “definitely” a criterion

For team manager Jürgen Klopp from the English top club Liverpool FC, the vaccination status of a player is “definitely” an important criterion in the event of possible transfers.

“Of course that will have an impact. If a player is not vaccinated at all, he is a permanent threat to all of us,” Klopp told British media. It is not that unvaccinated professionals deliberately conjure up this danger – but they do.

These players would have to change in their own cubicles, eat in their own rooms, ride their own bus, etc. “From an organizational point of view, it will be really chaotic,” said Klopp. It would then be “incredibly difficult to adhere to the protocol.”

In addition, if there is an infection, there is a risk that unvaccinated players will have to be quarantined, also after traveling to games abroad. You would actually need your own building for professionals who refused to be vaccinated, “but that won’t happen,” said Klopp.