Swansea City boss Michael Laudrup has urged Wales coach Chris Coleman not to gamble with Ashley Williams' long-term fitness.
Coleman will include Williams in the squad named today for the World Cup qualifiers against Macedonia and Belgium next week.
Laudrup said: "I can only try to ask for common sense. This is not about Swansea or the national team. This is about a player.
"Ashley wants to be here and there and he doesn't want to disappoint anyone. He's the captain of his country and the club so you can't really ask the player in this case to say, 'I want to do this or I don't want to do this'. He doesn't want to disappoint anybody.
"That's why it has to be up to the rest of us - the national manager and me. I will never tell a player not to go and play for his country, but we have to try to find out what is best - not for us, but for him.
"He can go and be with the national team for 10 days and be a part of the team. I've no problem with that. But what does it help if I say, 'Don't play on Thursday or Sunday', and then he plays one or two games for the national team?"
