West Ham may receive less money than they expected from compensation scheme.
In the modern era, more and more is being put in place to protect clubs. Unfortunately, not enough is being done to protect players, with their schedules becoming more and more hectic.
While it’s easy to say that they get paid more than enough to play as much as they do, there is only so much the human body can physically take.
As a result, there are programs in place to help teams deal with the consequences of these heavy schedules, with FIFA’s club protection scheme helping teams to financially cope when players are injured on international duty.
Despite being sidelined since the last international break. West Ham may not get as much compensation as they once hoped for Niclas Fullkrug, finance expert Dan Plumley told West Ham Zone. “It gets a little bit technical,” Plumley explained.
“It will cover part of the wages is the summary answer and what happens here is, clubs are compensated based on the player’s fixed salary for a maximum of 365 days, but it’s calculated on a daily pro-rata basis up to a maximum of £7.5million per injury.”
“Crucially, compensation is not payable for the first 28 days of injury, so if it’s a minor injury that’s not covered, so that’s why it will kick in after the 28-day period.”
“A final caveat to that is that it should be noted that the programme itself that covers that has an annual fund limit that is capped at €80million at the minute.”
“In theory, if there are a large number of claims from a significant number of clubs, that pot could potentially run out. That’s the way that it works, so it depends on the nature of the injury, you can’t do anything until after 28 days anyway and then it will be a portion of the player’s fixed salary.”