Denmark boss Brian Riemer reckons he's made the most difficult decision of his life to dump talisman Christian Eriksen from his squad to face Scotland.
And he's even told him he won't be allowed to meet up with the squad and train with them. Scotland face the Danes a week on Friday in their opening World Cup encounter in Copenhagen.
Both nations named their squad this week and Denmark boss Riemer didn't include 144-times-capped Eriksen because he has yet to find a club, despite his agent claiming this week he is fully fit.
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And Riemer has told the former Manchester United and Spurs star to stay away from camp.
He said: " It has been an incredibly difficult and big dilemma for me, as I still think that Christian is one of our best players in many areas.
"But the fact is that we ended up running out of time. He hasn't had a club to train with in the past two and a half months. Therefore, the assessment from the coaching team is that we have to disregard Christian at this stage.
"This is close to being the biggest dilemma I've had. It's hard to drop a player because you don't think he's good enough. But this decision goes against my will.
"If I could choose, he would have had a club and then he would be selected, as he has been used to since he was 18. I have put off the decision for as long as I possibly could, says Riemer.
"There are a lot of circumstances that have made it impossible for him to move to a new club and time has just run out. Christian didn't expect it to take this long for us to get here, but it has.
"Now it's about Christian finding a place to play. It's about getting back into team training and getting out and playing, because he's still a big part of this national team - just not at the next training camp.
"I don't think it's in Christian's interest to train with us. He should spend all his time figuring out where to play football, he shouldn't run around and 'have fun' with us at our camp at Helsingor."
