Edinson Cavani is now set to stay with Manchester United during the international break after Uruguay confirmed he will not be travelling for their World Cup qualifiers.
Last week, the Premier League announced that teams had ‘reluctantly but unanimously’ agreed to not release players for international games which will be played in red-list countries.
The UK’s current Covid-19 guidelines state that anyone arriving from a country on the red list must first quarantine at a hotel for 10 days.
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But despite the decision by the Premier League clubs, Uruguay announced that Cavani would join the squad for their three World Cup qualifiers during the international break.
Uruguay are set to play Peru in Lima on September 3 before two home matches against Bolivia on September 5 and Ecuador on September 9.
Peru and Uruguay are countries on the UK’s red list, meaning that Cavani would need to quarantine when he returns to Manchester and would miss at least two Premier League games against Newcastle and West Ham.
But, Uruguay have now announced via a brief statement that they have ‘cancelled’ his call-up for their upcoming games.
Over the weekend, Solskjaer urged Cavani to show loyalty to the club and warned him that he would be making himself unavailable for the team’s games in September due to the 10-day isolation period.
‘I don’t want to be the manager who always moans, but it’s a fact that if you have to have 10 days in a hotel quarantining with no chance to train, no chance to keep your fitness up then you’ll need another 10-14 days to get back up to fitness again and then you’ve got to fly again,’ said Solskjaer.
‘It’s an impossible situation for the clubs, it’s an impossible situation for the players.
‘We understand that there are rules and broader issues here, that’s why we have to follow the rules and get on with it.
‘I don’t want to be the moaning one but if there was a choice for me, playing for Norway or playing for Man United, I know who my employer is.
‘Yes, it’s my country but the rules are as they are at the moment. Anyway, I’m not a player any more.’
