Compo for Wissa

[Jammy89]

Newcastle United are set to land a compensation payout from FIFA after the injury suffered by Yoane Wissa on international duty, as part of the Club Protection Programme, an insurance scheme that covers clubs whose players are injured playing for their country and are then unavailable for more than 28 consecutive days.
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Quite right to.

Playing him with no real pre-season caused this and then knackered our season start.

[Zippity]

Absolutely fucking typical of our luck that our signing with no pre-season gets injured on international duty whilst Isak sails through his Sweden games.

[Guybrush]

Hopefully he?s spending his time wisely watching videos and understanding what Eddie will want from him tactically

[HughieG]

Absolutely fucking typical of our luck that our signing with no pre-season gets injured on international duty whilst Isak sails through his Sweden games.

Thankfully, those games were a catastrophe for Sweden and Isak

[Jammy89]

Absolutely fucking typical of our luck that our signing with no pre-season gets injured on international duty whilst Isak sails through his Sweden games.

Equally though and with this stuck in my throat - Sweden deliberately managed his poor condition because they had other players they could use.

[PhoneymcRingRing]

He should not go to the ACON and stay and help us, ?60m for a 29 yearold, he?ll be nearly 30. That?s a shambles

[Jammy89]

He should not go to the ACON and stay and help us, ?60m for a 29 yearold, he?ll be nearly 30. That?s a shambles

Well it's not - up until this injury he'd missed 3 games in 3 years of the prem through injury - that's a brilliant record. He's a natural goal scorer and we wanted top doller for Isak.

The length of this injury is an absolute outlier in his history.

On that note - I assume we all know he's now going to be out for 8 weeks not 6.

[Jammy89]

Compo confirmed as ?6.5 million.

Decent sum but still.

[Guybrush]

Compo confirmed as ?6.5 million.

Decent sum but still.

That?s not bad at all to be fair 😳 just become a 48m signing for us - seems a little more reasonable 😆

Does anyone know what they base the compensation value on? We must have made fortune off Michael Owen 😂

[Zippity]

That?s not bad at all to be fair 😳 just become a 48m signing for us - seems a little more reasonable 😆

Good way of looking at it.

[Ragatino]

I was under the impression that there is a cap of 8m quid for wage compensation paid by FIFA.

It's reasonable, however the impact of having a player on the field competing could be worth 3 or 4 places higher in the Prem. Each place up the league is worth 3m quid. 9-12m quid potential earnings also the difference between finishing in the Champions League or not.

Swings and roundabouts.

However, the whole 'international break' thing is so stupid. It doesn't make any sense at all.

Look at Bruno & Joelinton having to fly over to S.Korea and back stupid!

FIFA are constantly trying to earn more money as they only earn money 1 year in 4 at the WC Finals. All club managers hate their players going on international breaks in case they get injured or just that the don't compete at the same level due to fatigue in the matches after being away.

There are 2 weeks in September, 2 weeks in October, 2 weeks in November and another 2-4 weeks back end of the season.

The simple way to generate massive revenue for FIFA every year, without expanding the Club World Cup that no one wants, is by removing all the 'International Breaks. Truncate the domestic seasons, play from September to end of March leaving April through to the end of May early June for an annual International Tournament. All the friendlies can be played pre-tournament and 1 year in every 4 that tournament is the Finals.

It's a win win all the way around.

I really don't understand how this hasn't been figured out by the money grabbing crooks in the FA or FIFA. Mind blowing.