Most of this is correct except that the club holds the player’s registration, not the international organisations (I presume you mean the national associations).
There is a provision for players to notify their country association that they will not be making themselves available to play for their country but it’s considered discretionary as to whether a country will accept that notification. If they don’t and a player refuses a call up the player can be banned from representing their club for the period of the international fixtures plus a further period either side (4/5 days prior and 9/10 days after).
As far as I’m aware its lawfulness hasn’t been challenged outside of FIFA.
A player could refuse on medical grounds but the national association calling him up is entitled to have him checked over by their own doctor.
A) He’s old and a liability. He’s already made in 5 games as many errors leading to a goal as TAA and Gomez have between them in 180 league appearances.
B) He wouldn’t have come because there’s a good chance he’d only have been 4th choice.
C) His wage demands wouldn’t justify it
D) We didn’t have the space in the squad for him (overseas player rules)
I can’t see Klopp making a panic buy of an out of contract player. I think we’ll go with the more experienced Philips in league games until Fab is fit again, and play Williams R. in the CL if Fab isn’t available. I think we can afford to take a chance on the youngster in CL games. It’s not as if we’re in desperate need of points there.
2020 continues to disappoint. Apart from becoming Champions of England that is.
Exactly. These are the situations in which the next big player takes his chances. If Clyne hadn’t gotten injured, TAA may not have emerged. It’s just a question of which of Williams/Phillips will grab the chance.
Yeah we’ve registered all 17 foreign developed senior players we are allowed. Not sure how many senior slots we have at all. Don’t think we can add to the Champions League squad now at all anyway as we weren’t even able to add Phillips after we missed him off due to the expected Swansea move. So in Europe we are stuck with Fabinho, Matip, Williams, CMs like Gini/Hendo dropping back or kids from within our academy eligible to be on our B list. Domestically we can add Phillips to that lost too. Think we can add a home grown player? Think there is room? But they had to be a free agent at end of registration period or something like that.
Win anything and the general media won’t even pretend those major injuries existed.
Fail to win anything and we will be accused of whining and branded “victims” if we mention the injuries.
This season as a general rule was going to be difficult. Champions get tough treatment from cavemen in lower teams (Everton) and Covid has fucked up all perspective on football.
All fit and well we would have fucking walked the league. Now we will struggle a bit and the sharks circle.
Even our own “knowledgeable” supporters and alleged friendly punters start questioning Klopp and his market decisions. Seers and shamen who could predict the Pickford assault and the utter stupidity of international Southgate football. Klopp should have bought another CB, the wisdom of it all. The man is a failure, won’t ever win a thing, lets all return to mundane lives as this rollercoaster is too fucking fast…
Sorry for ranting
I am gutted for Joe Gomez. The whole injustice and unnecessary outcomes of meaningless football in the tightest season ever. Shame on FIFA, UEFA, PL and all. You had a job, simple enough to make calendar for one year. But avarice and cowardice have made you royally fuck up your primary asset.
Players.
When Klopp calls them out on this, he’ll be mocked for whining, but the reality is that he is the one who has to pick Joe Gomez off the floor and plough on with a depleted squad.
Dealing with injuries is part of any managers job, but when you’re seeing your lads drop like flies to accommodate meaningless international friendlies and domestic cups no-one cares about it must Properly boil your piss.
Football has gone into this deluding itself everything is fine. We can have all the game we had before. We can have all the cups. We can have all the internationals. There is a cost to this delusional thinking. That cost is Joe Gomez, one of the best centre backs in the world at his age group, nursing a career ending injury. He won’t be the last this season.
Agreed. Think it happened to Matip when he was called up for the African Nations Cup (in 2018?) after he had retired - apparently he hadn’t ‘retired properly’.
