In most workplaces employees are only entitled to x amount of company sick pay and if someone is unable to do their job through ill health/injury and cannot be offered an alternative position (employers legally have to make all efforts to make reasonable adjustments ) then they may have their employment terminated as they are no longer able to fulfil their contract, regardless of the reasons for this.

Obviously in football the players run a high risk of injury and this is part and parcel of their job but I still would have thought that clubs would take steps to protect themselves from the Zahore like situation where they pay out a lot on wages for no return. Or maybe the only protection is in short time contracts so that worse case scenario they only have to cover this for that period and they either take the risk to offer a contract or not?