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Managing in an international break - and what to do when your star player does not come home

By BBCBBC News

Tony Pulis explains why international breaks can be an opportunity as well as a problem for managers, and what he did when one of his players did not return on time.

As a manager, I used to see international breaks as an opportunity - then they became a problem. In my first few years in the Premier League at Stoke, I would always hope that our fixtures against t…