By Mark Heys
November 13 2005

Football's leading organisations should put compensation plans into place to protect clubs for when their players are injured whilst on international duty according to Sam Allardyce. The Bolton boss feels that there is nothing in place to compensate league clubs for when their star players are injured when playing for their countries and has called for FIFA and UEFA to arrange some sort of insurance policy in the near future.

"Insurance is the word for it, and it is my solution," said Allardyce.

"There's a case to be made when players go on international duty and return injured, you should get compensation."

"We pay these lads a lot of money to play football. If they can't play for you, through no fault of your own, I don't see why we should still have to fork out the wages."

Allardyce thinks that such proposals will work out well providing that the relevant associations in each country all contribute to the cause in hand, but first and foremost he knows that any decision will have to be approved by the powers that be.

"Anyone will find the right solution if they put the insurance bond up. So if Fifa or Uefa make sure that is going to happen, and they are the ones who can buy the insurance universally, then everybody in the national associations can put the funding in."

Back in 2002 such an incident occured as Bernard Mendy broke his leg whilst on duty with the French U21 team and Bolton had to do without their on-loan full back at a very critical part of their season.