moomba said:
Strongly disagree, and I suspect we won't convince each other to change our minds.
As I said before I would never want us to do what the rags do pulling players out of international competition all the time. But these are very different circumstances and I expect any manager of ours to remind any player who pays his salary in those circumstances.
What was Kompany supposed to do following his "reminder"?
Not playing would have broken rules, and lead to sanctions for both him and City.
Obviously you wouldn't suggest he tell his international manager what to do, how long to play him etc, that would be insubordination, which you reminded us earlier, is wrong.