Comments on: English Premier League to Grow Their Own

By: I was reading this

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By: Nawaz

Nawaz — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:32:37 +0000

How can control Manchester City who spent 200 millions buying new players? The owner of the club is Arab and surely he can spend more then that without any debt. I read his response in reply to FA chief as they are bringing excitement to English Premier League :)

By: Luka

Luka — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:21:17 +0000

I was just about to post something very similar to your last post Martin. 3 years – any nationality? No problem for the big teams.

By: martin

martin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:54:55 +0000

The only real effect it will have is reducing the squad sizes, in its current format. If anything I would say this actively encourages teams to buy up foreign talent at a young age so they can be considered “home grown” in the future. Arsenal are sorted. If FIFA introduce some kind of rule restricting the trade of U-18s (which seems likely), this will then result in a mad scrap between Premier League teams as soon as every prospect turns 18 so that they can buy and train him for 3 years before he turns 21.

By: eric

eric — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:42:44 +0000

Maybe Liverpool will save some money now…

By: daryl

daryl — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:21:33 +0000

Fair point. What about the non-Champions League clubs? You see it affecting them? Or do you see this not really impacting anyone in a big way?

By: mlyons

mlyons — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:02:12 +0000

If they’re over 21 and not on the Champions League list for any reason other than being cup-tied, they’re going to get almost no football anyway.

By: daryl

daryl — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:09:21 +0000

That’s definitely true mylons, and from what I learned playing Football Manager, the UEFA squad rules are pretty similar.

But I think when these restrictions are applied over the long course of a domestic season, it has the potential to be more impactful than in the Champions League. Especially because you can leave someone out of the CL squad and they can still play league football, but if there’s a player you can’t fit into the league squad, that means they get almost no football.

By: MAD

MAD — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:04:07 +0000

Wait, why is there a fleet of buses from England heading across the Chunnel towards Italy carrying diapers and pacifiers?

Oh that’s right, “homegrown” talent.

Maybe they might actually pay the clubs for the talent they take this time…. naaaaaaaaah who am I kidding.

The Scourge of European Football pays for nothing. But boy do they get upset when people use the word “steal”…

By: mlyons

mlyons — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:57:00 +0000

What people aren’t really noticing is that this rule won’t affect the top clubs one iota — they all already have to abide by more restrictive roster rules for European competition.