I think master league has this programming where you cant have more than 3 players taken off you. I often collect Japanese players for my English team cuz I imagine the newspapers and fans nicknaming us the Yakuza hehehe and even though these guys will be the very best Japan has to offer, I won't ever have more than 3 taken away from me by internationals. If you want to avoid being plundered for international duty, try having a lot of the same nationality making sure it's a nationality that has a lot of people anyway ie; England or Spain. I actually think having players from obscure countries gaurantees having them taken when that country plays because there is nobody else to pick and all countries do play internationals regardless of whether they have a squad in the game or not. I know that because I created a player from the Philippines (automatically making him the only Filippino in the game!) and he still got called away for international duty even though his stats were garbage! Meanwhile I've got a 23 year old Rowland with an overall of 90 who can't even force his way into England past the amazing Peter Crouch and Emile Heskey