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Posted by GunsOfBrixton on 25 July 2010 - 8:56am.
It seems that on the one hand whilst Man City appear to be buying up anything they can lay their hands on they also have to trim their squad to 25 with a quota of 8 'homegrown' players (their squad is currently running at 37 with about half a dozen or so defensive midfielders) . It looks like they will be having some sort of fire sale with players like Bellamy, Richards, De Jong all having to go in short order or not being registered if they don't.
I can't help thinking that the bubble is about to burst for English football and what a bubble it is.
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Link?
Have you got a link to the new rules re quotas... I'm getting confused.
This is it
http://www.premierleague.com/page/Headlines/0,,12306~1797582,00.html
Given the number of players that City have shipped in over the last two years I don't think there are many that can be considered homegrown.
So then
Scottish and irish players are not classed as homegrown ??
Its not a matter of nationality....
...its a matter of where they were trained. So a Scottish player would qualify as homegrown if he had spent at least 3 years in the English (or Welsh) system before the age of 21.
Then it is possible
for an english player who has played in scotland say to be classed as non homegrown
It's also possible...
For the big clubs to raid the academies of Europe for the best young players - à la Cesc Fabregas - and compete a few years later with a team made up of "home-grown" Spaniards, Frenchmen, Dutchmen... in fact, the new rule will encourage this.
RUGBY UNION
It's been happening in this sport for years. I don't know that there are many New Zealand born players in the All Blacks team. The NZRFU raid the Islands for the best prospects and bring them to NZ for schooling and to qualify as a New Zealander.
back in my day
..I've got old copies of Goal and Charlie Buchan's Football Monthly staged at the bottom of the wardrobe. In those days, footballers were called by sensible names such as Wilf, Ray, Norman and Brian. I don't object to great foreign world class players in the Premiership but
- why are they so many useless foreign players. Wigan have just signed an Omani goalkeeper!
- acadamies should be for kids from England. Full stop
- and why are players paid so much? Ludicrous
and we could have the same discussion about Rugby (League and Union), cricket and speedway. And whats the common factor with all these sports?
Murdoch
innit?
Bubble bursting
I keep thinking it must burst soon. In evidence, Man Utd have just put 4000 season tickets for sale to anyone, no queue - it's not so long since you had to go on a waiting list. And tickets for the Community Shield are on general sale, which never used to happen. And if the rumours are true they can't give tickets away for England-Hungary.
But then heavily in debt Liverpool pay hardly ever fit Joe Cole £90K a week. To play with hardly ever fit Fernando Torres probably. Are they mad or just in denial?