Newcastle have more Dutch/French players (each/not combined) than English players in their squad. Also, aside from Colback, who has started all three of their matches, I believe only one other English player has featured for them this season, and that was off the bench. I was under the impression there were some kind of stipulations that a club in the PL has to field a certain number of English players or at least have so many in their squad in which case, I'm really struggling to see how they get away with this. Lots of clubs are bad for this, but this just caught my eye. We play a fair few English players every game and most of the rest are all home nations players. Makes me glad we do our bit for giving English players game time.
I am pretty sure it is within the squad. To be honest, they do have a few. The biggest loophole is to have an english reserve keeper (Karl Darlow is there one). I think it's flawed myself. Teams are putting young players in their squad to fill the quota. But the problem now is that young homegrown players are not getting any games and instead of getting shipped out on loan for experience, they are playing in the U21's league which is the biggest waste of time since Glenn Roeder. I think that rule is backfiring and homegrown players are now just rotting in the U21 league rather than getting loan experience in lower leagues.
Steven Taylor has been playing hasn't he? Not sure there is any actual binding stipulation about quotas, I know it's been talked about for years but I'm not aware that anything was put into place? Certainly wouldn't be a problem for us should anything like that ever come in, we must have had one of the most consistently 'British' squads over the years, and there have only really been a handful of overseas players who have ever been any bloody good for us that I can think of. I'd say upwards of 90% of them have been pretty rubbish.
For possibly the first time ever, the DM have a decent article on this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ar...gue-s-homegrown-quota-does-actually-work.html It'd be better if they actually defined what a homegrown player is though. Also, teams don't have to declare their 25 man squad until the end of the transfer window. To me, it looks like you only need so many homegrown players in that 25 man squad, so you can use whoever you like before then.
That's what I mean, it is introduced as something to help homegrown players break through, when in fact all it does is restrict young players from playing and stalling there development in order to fill their squad. These top clubs will start picking players abroad soon at younger ages to make them 'homegrown' soon enough. When you look at the players Chelsea have loaned out you can see they've started doing it already.
