I don't particularly mind the loan system. As long as a player is playing football at the highest level he can, I don't understand why it's particularly important whose books he's on. The biggest fault in the system, IMHO, is hoovering up your talent and then keeping them in the reserves. That is what deprives young talent of game time.
As for the whole quota on foreign players, the problem isn't the number of foreign players in the English league, it's the number of English players in foreign leagues. I'd rather have a requirement that no player over 19 can play in the Premiership unless they have played the previous season in some other country (or, of course, in the Premiership). Would force all the little Englanders to go out and learn how the rest of the world plays football.
The new breed of young player does seem to be more willing to go abroad as seen with the likes of Sancho, Oxford, Akpom, Aarons, and Lookman this season. There are signs with the likes of young Sancho that the young players are ready to stick two fingers up at the PL giants and say "no I'm not going to be churned up by your system while all the time you just purchase more and more foreign superstars blocking my path". I hope Man C don't mess up with young Foden as it would be a disaster.
I'd still like a quota personally though as that is also out of control. It is a personal choice that though I think. There are too many foreign players in my opinion, and I think it is definitely preventing opportunity for younger players to play at a higher level. Same for coaches. The PL league is not really part of English football anymore. It is more like an international money league. Some of the physical challenge has endured of course, but in terms of feeling much of an affiliation with the culture here, that is limited now at the PL level. We've discussed it loads and sit at opposite ends of the scale though!
I agree with the loans. I quite like a loan system, its something we've had for a long time. Its just been corrupted by money and big teams as a way of reducing the competitiveness of others.
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