This has come in the wake of the decision to close the country’s borders to curb a rise in coronavirus cases.
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All games in the recent UEFA Champions League and Europa League final stage mini-tournaments have been played behind closed doors.
Fans will return to the stands on September 24, when the Champions League winners meet the Europa League winners in Budapest.
The issue was highlighted earlier this year when the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, PIF, was part of an investment group that made a bid to buy Premier League club Newcastle United.
The format was changed in order to allow the competition to be completed in a shorter time-span after the COVID-19 pandemic halted play for several months across Europe in March.
Manchester City were cleared on Monday of breaking UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho said on Tuesday it was a disgrace for such a decision to have been made.
Klopp said this at a virtual news conference on Tuesday.
City, who confirmed their place in next season’s European Cup with the 5-0 thrashing of Brighton & Hove Albion, lodged their appeal to CAS in February after Uefa’s club financial control body issued the suspension in February
Manchester City’s appeal against the ban was heard last month at the Court of Arbitration of Sport and a decision is expected by July 13.
During a video conference on Wednesday, UEFA and the German Football Federation (DFB) reaffirmed their commitment to staging the event in Germany, European soccer’s ruling body said in a statement.
According to Reuters, the proposal is expected to be agreed upon after a consensus was reached on Monday.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport set the target Wednesday of “during the first half of July” to publish the decision of its three-judge panel.
Both competitions were put on hold at the last-16 stage in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
UEFA last month gave European leagues an initial May 25 deadline to submit plans but the FRF requested an extension after the Romanian Government said it was assessing the COVID-19 situation every two weeks.
On Wednesday’s edition of Britain’s Guardian newspaper, Ceferin said football has also stayed the same after previous challenges, however, lessons could be learnt from the health crisis which brought the game to a standstill in almost every country of the world.
In February, the adjudicatory chamber of UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body found City had committed “serious breaches” of the Financial Fair Play regulations put in place by European football’s governing body.
UEFA has postponed its Executive Committee meeting scheduled for May 27 because of some “open points” regarding the venues for next year’s re-scheduled Euro 2020 tournament.
Neil Lennon’s side were 13 points clear at the top of the table with eight games remaining when the league was postponed on March 13, prior to the Hoops’ derby visit to Ibrox.
UEFA has a plan to finish the 2019/2020 season by August, including the Champions League and Europa League campaigns, the European football governing body’s president Aleksander Ceferin said on Sunday.