Jack Wilshere and our future midfield

[Özim]

It might not be their "fault" but it's their responsibility. They should have to pay compensation then this stupid shit would clear up overnight. Anyway, it makes no odds if the hapless cunt Hodgson gets zero or a hundred friendlies, he's got fuck all chance of even getting out of the group let alone winning it. Complete waste of our time, effort and money and somebody should have to carry the can for that. In any other industry you pay if you fuck something up.

Pay compensation for a player who's injury prone? Come on be realistic, doesn't happen in any other sport and I'm not sure why it should in football either, he's always getting injured, doesn't take much for him to be out and it's not their fault he gets injured on the pitch, that's out of their control, players gets tackled, some are injury prone.

If they paid us for our players getting injured every International break we'd be richer than Man City.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We can and probably will get compensation, there's not much doubt about that.

[Fist of Lehmann]

Although it will be of little comfort, Arsenal will be compensated financially for the injury and the Premier League club will not have to pay for the midfielder's wages – reported at around some £100,000 per week – while he is sidelined, with the money coming from the FA's insurers.

It's Kallstrom Time.

[Niall_Quinn]

We can and probably will get compensation, there's not much doubt about that.

But it will be from insurance, won't it? So the taxpayer will end up paying that. There should be some sanction against the fuckers who organise these meaningless games. They are the guilty party, not the taxpayer.

[Niall_Quinn]

You can see what a classy guy our manager is from his comments in the media today. Same can't be said about that cunt Hodgson who left Wilshere on the pitch after he was injured. In a NOTHING game. This is ludicrous.

[Özim]

You can see what a classy guy our manager is from his comments in the media today. Same can't be said about that cunt Hodgson who left Wilshere on the pitch after he was injured. In a NOTHING game. This is ludicrous.

If a player is injured it's for him to say he can't carry on, if Wilshere said he could how was Hodgson to know he was injured? When a player goes down the player usually makes the call as to whether he's able to carry on, unless he clearly can't.

Hodgson wouldn't have left him on if he knew he was injured, why would he?

[Power n Glory]

Wenger has made the same mistake as Hodgson and let Wilshere play on after being misled about the extent of his injury. He said sometimes you have to trust the player when he says he can play on. Wishere just needs to learn to come off if he thinks something is wrong.

[Xhaka Can’t]

When you are playing for your international place in a WC year, you are unlikely to do that. The manager should have taken him off.

[Letters]

Yeah, you definitely wouldn't have criticised Wenger for the exact same thing...

Not you , Zim.

[I am invisible]

Pay compensation for a player who's injury prone? Come on be realistic, doesn't happen in any other sport and I'm not sure why it should in football either, he's always getting injured, doesn't take much for him to be out and it's not their fault he gets injured on the pitch, that's out of their control, players gets tackled, some are injury prone.

It may not happen much in sport, but it's pretty much the basis of all negligence law - reasonable foreseeability, and all that. If you have prior knowledge that someone is prone to injury, and you put them in a situation / give them a task to do where they're more likely to get injured (or, in this case, fail to act if you've just witnessed them getting injured, and then leave them to carry on doing the same task for nearly another hour), then you're on pretty shaky ground. Up until now I would imagine most sports clubs have refrained from making claims because of the floodgates argument, but I wouldn't mind betting that this is something that we'll start to see more and more of now players' wages are getting more expensive and harder for clubs to simply write-off?