FIFA will only cover a portion of Niclas Fullkrug’s wages at West Ham United after a new update, according to football finance expert Dan Plumley.
The German forward has been sidelined with an Achilles and calf injury that he sustained while in training whilst away with his national side during the September international break [Kerry Hau, 9 September].
It will cover part of the wages is the summary answer and what happens here is, clubs are compensated based on the player’s fixed salary for a maximum of 365 days, but it’s calculated on a daily pro-rata basis up to a maximum of £7.5million per injury.
“Crucially, compensation is not payable for the first 28 days of injury, so if it’s a minor injury that’s not covered, so that’s why it will kick in after the 28-day period.
A final caveat to that is that it should be noted that the programme itself that covers that has an annual fund limit that is capped at €80million at the minute
That’s the way that it works, so it depends on the nature of the injury, you can’t do anything until after 28 days anyway and then it will be a portion of the player’s fixed salary.”
