So non-EU players being banned from non top flight?
So you're a Prem team, with a few non-EU players, then you get relegated and you have to sell them because you're not allowed to play them? Yeah.... can really see that one working![]()
Surely the Non EU thing could turn into a legal battle. In Rafa's day he was trying to promote the B teams in the league. So can the B teams get promoted to the Championship or do they stay in league 3?
Cummings ?

Work permits for Non EU is complicated anyway. A club has to apply to the Home Office for a work permit, with the requirement being that a player had to have played 75% of his nation’s competitive games within the last two years [excluding friendlies] to qualify. Also the country the player is coming from must be in the top 70 of Fifa’s rankings. Given this, it's highly unlikely a top ranked player would be joining a championship team. If a prem team is relegated, I would think the non EU players will have contract provisions for such an event.
That's for a straight forward acceptance. If a player is slightly under that then its still possible but requires an appeal etc.
So... theoretically.
Say Scotland gains independence. There is a chance that, at least initially they won't be given EU membership. (Spain, Italy, Germany and other countries with their own want-a-way regions are against Scotland getting membership in EU as it will encourage their own regions to separate)
All the dozens of Scottish players in the league can't play there any more. Charlie Adam has to bugger off North of the Border where his Corners alone will be worth 100Million Scottish £. (assuming £1 will be worth £10-Scots)
So long as Stoke stay in the Premier League then Adam can continue to injury players south of the border.So... theoretically.
Say Scotland gains independence. There is a chance that, at least initially they won't be given EU membership. (Spain, Italy, Germany and other countries with their own want-a-way regions are against Scotland getting membership in EU as it will encourage their own regions to separate)
All the dozens of Scottish players in the league can't play there any more. Charlie Adam has to bugger off North of the Border where his Corners alone will be worth 100Million Scottish £. (assuming £1 will be worth £10-Scots)
So long as Stoke stay in the Premier League then Adam can continue to injury players south of the border.
Its the Championship clubs and lower that wouldn't be allowed to buy any Scots. And the poor Scottish players would be forced to play in a substandard league for Celtic.
Didn't read that bit, about the non-EU cap. Can't see any Prem or league club going for that.That's more than the two non-EU players that the FA's plan would allow. Some (most) of them (maybe Adam) would have to leave.
Even a small club like Stoke is currently associated with 9 non-EU players. 7 of them would have to bugger off.
They also have 3 non-EU players in their reserve squad... would they have to go too?
Didn't read that bit, about the non-EU cap. Can't see any Prem or league club going for that.
By the time anything gets finalised I would guess that that part of the proposal will have disappeared.
A cap of two non-EU players per squad has also been proposed, plus a ban on non-EU players outside of the Premier League.
The restriction on non EU players is for all team below the premiership, not the premiership itself.