[Salopbaggie]

When are International Football Associations going to be made to pay compensation to a club, when its players get injured on international duty.

Sept 2021 O'Shea gets his ankle broken playing for the ROI, we lose him until the following January. This season he does not miss a minute for us, goes away with the R.O.I and now will miss the rest of the season with an injury. If that was not bad enough it also looks like Molumby is also going to be missing for at least 4 weeks of the run in, also playing for the R.O.I. How can it be right that the relevant I.F.A. does not even have to play their wages unless the match was in the finals of a major international tournament (qualifiers do not count).

We faced an uphill battle with the players we had fit, I do hope not, but I fear to lose two such influential players, may make it one hill to far and what will our potential losses be?

While I am sure it is a great honour for players to pull on their national shirt, their first loyalty has to be to the people who pay their wages, week in, week out. Clubs gain absolutely nothing by having their players, playing for their nations. in fact it is all negative not only do they risk losing them to injury and still have to pay their wages, but it also puts those players on the radar of other clubs.

[4evaabaggie]

How many times has this happened to us. Our players have reasonable league performances and success, get called up, great honour, play well, increase their value and we lose them, unsettling / unbalancing the team,
They play poorly, lose confidence, dip in form, dropped points for us,
They play, get injured, we lose them, we do not have a squad of twenty five internationals with which to buy the league, our team quality, balance, performance drops.
Perhaps it's time to stop playing international matches during a domestic season. Season ends at the end of may, play internationals in June, two weeks off start of July, teams return for pre season training mid july, season starts late August. Without the constant international breaks and disruption to a clubs form and good runs of results, the season will still finish at the same time.

International FA's should have to have insurance that compensates clubs for loss of players due to issues caused by international call ups. Difficult to legislate for a team like us that may miss out on promotion because of international injuries, how do you prove we would have made the playoffs let alone achieve promotion. How do you measure financial damage caused by not getting promotion. But clubs like us suffer immeasurable operating damage.