The Premier League are being asked to get on board with the FA's new plan to reduce foreign players. The aim is to phase it in over four years, starting in 2016. The proposals are: - Players, irrespective of nationality, will have to be with his club from age 15 to qualify as home-grown - The number of non-home grown players in each 25-man squad is to be reduced from 17 to 13 - At least two home-grown players must be club trained please log in to view this image It doesn't look like that much of a big deal to me, most clubs would meet the rules already, only Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle would currently fail and they could easily sort that with four years notice. http://www1.skysports.com/football/...s-man-city-arsenal-chelsea-would-lose-players
Utter garbage... all it will do is lower the standard of the PL. There aren't enough players being produced of the right quality. That's what needs to change. Help/advise clubs in improving their youth systems, reduce the price of coaching badges/sponsor people so they don't have to foot the entire bill. From what I've read it's around £960 for a Uefa B License (what's needed to train at professional clubs).
Didn't they try something like this a few years ago? I'm sure not being able to play non British players fell foul of EU employment equality laws. Happy to be corrected.
The top three in the home grown table are the bottom three in the premier league table. Doubt we could have signed N'Doye if this one went through. Unless he's picked up a Danish passport or summat along his travels.
The challenge is in relation to EU players, where they cannot contravene EU law by restricting the amount of EU players in the squads, non EU is totally fair game though as we have no legal obligations to allow them to work in the UK. I personally like the proposals, not sure how much it will change in real terms, but the homegrown for 15 would mean our squad would be 2 lighter than it is now, and think that'd be the bit that will impact teams in the Premier League, it'd be interesting to see a stat on how many players in team's squads meet the since 15 rule. Even if it is just a little step, it's a step in the right direction. I don't think it'll lower the standard as non EU players like Aguero, Sanchez etc. will have no problems getting permits for rules, what it will look to weed out are the not so 'star standard' players who come from much lower ranked countries
It would make more sense to have a rule where you have to have a certain number of home-grown players in the starting XI.
Under new rules, N'Doye would have had to have played 60% of Senegal's matches to qualify for a work permit, any less and he wouldn't have qualified for a permit
Money will talk and the FA will back down, as if they would challenge any of the top 5/6 clubs when they can bully the little ones. The big clubs will just do a Madonna and steal babies from across the world for their development squads.
the graph is pretty much self explanatory - the less British chaff a squad contains the better it will do in the league . Can't see many of the top ten clubs agreeing this , it will just help to even up an already tough league .
The FA COULD enforce this but chooses not to, typical of them tbh, no balls. Hes right about average foreign players coming here, at the expense of average English ones. It's not all about the next English Messi or whatever, it should be about achieving the same type of national parity that the Germans have in their league. We all know how much we take our home growns to heart. Thank god our owners are also seeing this, and investing massively in our youth set up.
It's very admirable, only wanting the very best foreign players. But I can only see this benefiting the big club's. The one's that can actually afford and attract the cream. The rest of us need to pick up some gems from the bargain basement. Also under the current EPPP, there's nothing stopping these big club's hoovering up all the best young talent for peanuts. Even from other category one academies. I do not like it.
If they gave point deductions every time a club breached that then 30 points might be enough to stay up.
There was a change by age to the international matches rule, its a less % depending on the age of the player. So players like Yedlin (who signed for spurs recently) would still qualify and be allowed to sign.
If you look at the picture - the teams with more home grown players are the ones at the bottom of the team. Not good news.
The FA are considering another World Cup bid for 2026 as well, depending on whether that corrupt prick Blatter in still in charge of FIFA after the next election.
