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The Liebherr Legacy said:
Is it something to do with them trying to get permission from UEFA to play in a European week?

Just frustrating and I had thought they said this week?
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Yes, think that is the case. Otherwise it's getting shunted right to the end of the season. Like final week, or so.

It won't be played before final week of April as it stands.

We were told that a decision was coming very shortly, but, nothing has been said yet...
 
- Doing The Lambert Walk said:
Yes, think that is the case. Otherwise it's getting shunted right to the end of the season. Like final week, or so.

It won't be played before final week of April as it stands.

We were told that a decision was coming very shortly, but, nothing has been said yet...
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Right pain in the arse really. Gotta get United game in somewhere too...

We could have a big say in the top 4 race yet.
 
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Missing Lambo said:
Bloody hell, LL. This rotation thing has gone too far. Has Claude told you where you would be playing? Maybe he's going to get all of the younger supporters a game before the end of the season. Younger, I said. Put those boots away, FLT.
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Sadly, it looks like I'll miss Liverpool and one of Arsenal/United as I'm away with work 7th May for a week.
 
I warned at the time leading up to the referendum that voting to leave the EU would cause real problems for football recruitment and sure enough it has. Premier league Chairman are lobbying for exemption from post Brexit rules. Here are the first few lines of the article.

Premier League chairmen have urged the government to allow footballers from the European Union exemption from post-Brexit immigration controls.
More than two-thirds of players in the Premier League are from overseas with the majority from EU countries and clubs fear that Brexit could have a huge impact on their ability to make signings from the Continent.
Others, however, believe that a reduction in the number of European players in the Premier League would give more chances to English players and boost the quality of the national team.
 
It will be up to the FA to sort out what level of players they want to be allowed in...the rules applied to non-EU players will probably now also apply to EU players. Players will have to be of a certain standard, so it may prevent middling players coming in and thus increase opportunities for UK players. I don't know whether this was ever much of an issue though.
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
It will be up to the FA to sort out what level of players they want to be allowed in...the rules applied to non-EU players will probably now also apply to EU players. Players will have to be of a certain standard, so it may prevent middling players coming in and thus increase opportunities for UK players. I don't know whether this was ever much of an issue though.
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Senility is catching up with me. I keep missing out things when I write posts. The article was back page headlines in the Times.
 
St Godders said:
I warned at the time leading up to the referendum that voting to leave the EU would cause real problems for football recruitment and sure enough it has. Premier league Chairman are lobbying for exemption from post Brexit rules. Here are the first few lines of the article.

Premier League chairmen have urged the government to allow footballers from the European Union exemption from post-Brexit immigration controls.
More than two-thirds of players in the Premier League are from overseas with the majority from EU countries and clubs fear that Brexit could have a huge impact on their ability to make signings from the Continent.
Others, however, believe that a reduction in the number of European players in the Premier League would give more chances to English players and boost the quality of the national team.
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Don't you just love Brexit? It's given us so much to **** ourselves about.

Fran is surely right - we'll go to the standards applied to, say, African players. Means a reduction in opportunities for young EU players , so lower league clubs won't be able to pick up promising young stars from the EU. This would have meant we would not have been able to recruit Morgan, for example. Whether this is good or bad depends on how you look at it. Maybe the French would have preferred it if young Morgan had developed his craft at Strasbourg, moving on to PSG before considering a move to a Premier League club for the big wage packet. Had we simultaneously developed the midfield talents of a young lad from Southampton to become our Morgan this might have been good. Whether such embryonic talent existed/exists is a moot point.

Now how are they going to resolve the issue of non-UK managers?
 
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