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England's recent squad:

Joe Hart - Already at the club
Rob Green - can get but wouldn't improve first team or bench
Tom Heaton - would ruin his own career
Phil Jones - plays for Man U
Nathaniel Clyne - recently moved
Ryan Bertrand - recently moved
Kieran Gibbs - Decent full back off the bench but isn't better than Zabaletta
Gary Cahill - Chelsea wouldn't sell unless a silly price. Would be good for City
Chris Smalling - plays for Man U
Phil Jagielka - would not improve the team
Ross Barkley - been interest before, would cost a bomb and doesn't improve the first team
Adam Lallana - they can have if they wanted too, would be decent on the bench
Jack Wilshire - apparently no go anyways
Jordan Henderson - nope
Fabian Delph - turned them down
James Milner - recently moved
Andros Townsend - could happen, I don't rate at all but could happen
Raheem Sterling - on going saga
Tom Cleverly - recently moved
Theo Walcott - could happen
Danny Welbeck - nope and doesn't improve team
Wayne Rooney - nope
Charlie Austin - ruin his own career and doesn't improve team
Jamie Vardy - nope

So I call six players who realistically could go to Man City and maybe one of them improves them. There in trouble.
 
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Rubbersoul said:
England's recent squad:

Joe Hart - Already at the club
Rob Green - can get but wouldn't improve first team or bench
Tom Heaton - would ruin his own career
Phil Jones - plays for Man U
Nathaniel Clyne - recently moved
Ryan Bertrand - recently moved
Kieran Gibbs - Decent full back off the bench but isn't better than Zabaletta
Gary Cahill - Chelsea wouldn't sell unless a silly price. Would be good for City
Chris Smalling - plays for Man U
Phil Jagielka - would not improve the team
Ross Barkley - been interest before, would cost a bomb and doesn't improve the first team
Adam Lallana - they can have if they wanted too, would be decent on the bench
Jack Wilshire - apparently no go anyways
Jordan Henderson - nope
Fabian Delph - turned them down
James Milner - recently moved
Andros Townsend - could happen, I don't rate at all but could happen
Raheem Sterling - on going saga
Tom Cleverly - recently moved
Theo Walcott - could happen
Danny Welbeck - nope and doesn't improve team
Wayne Rooney - nope
Charlie Austin - ruin his own career and doesn't improve team
Jamie Vardy - nope

So I call six players who realistically could go to Man City and maybe one of them improves them. There in trouble.
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Why are they in trouble? Why would they even want to sign English players?
 
Lucaaas said:
Why are they in trouble? Why would they even want to sign English players?
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Maybe they don't have enough to fill the homegrown quota, they got rid of Milner and Lampard is gone, so they need more Englishmen now.
 
Lucaaas said:
Why are they in trouble? Why would they even want to sign English players?
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Manchester City have the current maximum of 17 non home-grown players. Those are:

Sergio Aguero, Wilfried Bony, Willy Caballero, Martin Demichelis, Edin Dzeko, Fernando, Fernandinho, Stevan Jovetic, Aleksandar Kolarov, Vincent Kompany, Eliaquim Mangala, Samir Nasri, Jesus Navas, Bacary Sagna, David Silva, Yaya Toure and Pablo Zabaleta.

In addition Gael Clichy and Dedryck Boyata would no longer be classed as a home-grown players under the new rules because they did not play for English clubs for three years before their 18th birthdays.

If the rules were introduced today, City would need to offload six of the players listed above.
 
Diego said:
They need to replace 5 but 3 of them were never in the team, Sinclair, Boyata and Richards.
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Yeah but they still need to replace them, and also, like Rubber says, they have exceeded their foreign quota, so any signings they make will need to be Brits.
Hence why they are prepared to pay spastic money for Sterling, who is worth literally half what City will pay, at best.
 
Bodanki said:
Yeah but they still need to replace them, and also, like Rubber says, they have exceeded their foreign quota, so any signings they make will need to be Brits.
Hence why they are prepared to pay spastic money for Sterling, who is worth literally half what City will pay, at best.
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Nope, to improve the first team they will pay big money to replace players like Mangala, Jovetic, Navas and Nasri. The Hg players will just be squad fillers.
 
First they have to flog em tho. And the players have to want to leave. Its unlikely they will get the same money elsewhere so they may run into problems trying to shift em. Like we did with Torres
 
Bodanki said:
First they have to flog em tho. And the players have to want to leave. Its unlikely they will get the same money elsewhere so they may run into problems trying to shift em. Like we did with Torres
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I think they are aware of that problem after Bridge :bandit:
 
Bodanki said:
Maybe they don't have enough to fill the homegrown quota, they got rid of Milner and Lampard is gone, so they need more Englishmen now.
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I think they will get away with just signing "home grown" players who aren't actually English. Like Chelsea with Begovic & Fabregas. There's surely a few others knocking about like Pique, Pogba etc.
 
Lucaaas said:
I think they will get away with just signing "home grown" players who aren't actually English. Like Chelsea with Begovic & Fabregas. There's surely a few others knocking about like Pique, Pogba etc.
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Pogba wouldn't count if the rules were changed from 'Three years under 21' to the proposed 'At least three years under 18'. Meaning a player would have to join an English/Welsh club at 15!

In fact I understand Pogba fails under the u21 rule as well, by about three months.

FA are going to make life very difficult for the Prem teams, expect the price of English players to rocket even higher than they are now if Dyke gets his way.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...les-bad-news-for-man-city-arsenal-and-chelsea
 
RogerisontheHunt said:
Pogba wouldn't count if the rules were changed from 'Three years under 21' to the proposed 'At least three years under 18'. Meaning a player would have to join an English/Welsh club at 15!

In fact I understand Pogba fails under the u21 rule as well, by about three months.

FA are going to make life very difficult for the Prem teams, expect the price of English players to rocket even higher than they are now.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...les-bad-news-for-man-city-arsenal-and-chelsea
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Yeah but as far as I'm aware the rules haven't been implemented and they'll struggle to implement them because most of the top clubs don't want them.
 
RogerisontheHunt said:
Pogba wouldn't count if the rules were changed from 'Three years under 21' to the proposed 'At least three years under 18'. Meaning a player would have to join an English/Welsh club at 15!

In fact I understand Pogba fails under the u21 rule as well, by about three months.

FA are going to make life very difficult for the Prem teams, expect the price of English players to rocket even higher than they are now if Dyke gets his way.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...les-bad-news-for-man-city-arsenal-and-chelsea
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There are a group of Premier League teams planning on fighting this in court <ok>
 
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