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Hammers will need to wait for Rice compensation

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Declan Rice injured his right knee in the World Cup qualifying game between England and Poland on Wednesday evening.

TV video replays show Dec pulling up after a jog and holding his right knee. He played on regardless picking up another player of the game award for England.

He had a scan on Thursday which shows no tearing but medics estimate he will be out for five to six weeks.

Clubs are entitled to compensation if a player is injured on International duty as the world football governing body has an insurance policy tagged the FIFA Club Protection Programme (CPP) which cater to the injury risk of players who have been invited to play for their national teams.

Based on this programme, Fifa will be responsible for the wages of the players who are invited by their national teams for a match under the FIFA calendar but got injured while training with the national team or during an international match. The compensation FIFA will pay to the club will last as long as the injury lasts and as long as the player involved is still contracted to the club.

However, the insurance scheme does not kick in for the first 28 days so West Ham will not reap the financial benefit for a month.

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4 comments

  • Alex says:

    Typical plays every single minute for the past 2 seasons and goes on international duty and gets injured! Who cares about the compensation its peanuts in comparison to where we may now finish potentially losing out on CL and Europe.

  • Elvis the Hammer says:

    Not going to cover the cost of European football though is it

  • Graham says:

    Claim to cover for everything including if we miss out on Europe. They decided we could be a one man team with Tevez, so time for us to play the same card.

  • Paul Lewis says:

    Unfortunately Graham, we may just find out from now that it is the case.
    We will be spurs without Kane, Palace without Saha.
    Every bloody time, injuries playing for England, ffs

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