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Real Madrid to recieve €2.7m FIFA compensation for Khedira injury

By on November 17, 2013
Real Madrid will be paid nearly €3m in compensation for Sami Khedira's knee injury from Fifa

Real Madrid will be paid nearly €3m in compensation for Sami Khedira’s knee injury from Fifa

Sami Khedira picked up a serious knee-injury that will keep on the sidelines until the end of the season, according to German doctors, during Germany’s 1-1 draw with Italy, seriously denting his chances of appearing in the 2014 World Cup. However, things aren’t all bad for his employers, Real Madrid, despite the injury after it was confirmed that Fifa would pay Los Blancos €2.7 million in compensation.

Madrid will receive their first compensation payment on the 29th day of Khedira’s injury, per the rules of the Fifa Club Protection Programme which say that Fifa is obliged to pay the player’s salary to his employer everyday after the player has been sidelined for 28 days from an injury suffered on international duty, until doctors confirm the player is fit to play.  Khedira earns an enormous salary of €20,548-a-day (in terms of Lamborghini’s, that’s nearly 50 €150,000 cars a year, and higher than the GDP per capita of every single African nation), thus earning Madrid nearly €3 million if the midfielder is sidelined until the end of the season.

Yet this is not the first time this has happened to Madrid, who were paid a total of €1,150,688 when Marcelo picked up an injury while on international duty for Brazil, and if Cristiano Ronaldo were ever to be injured for as long as Khedira is suspected to be out, Madrid would receive around €9 million from Fifa.  Still, this would be scant compensation for Madridif they were to lose one of their best players, while even just Khedira is a blow.  The 26-year-old has made 89 appearances for Carlo Ancelotti’s side since joining Madrid in 2010, but has his ticket to the World Cup still on the line following the injury.   Still, German doctor Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt said that they are “very hopeful that [Khedira will] be able to return in time for the World Cup.”

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