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Lack Of English Players At The Top 4 Clubs
Topic Started: Feb 18 2008, 11:43 AM (744 Views)
flak
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Four teams will fly the flag for England when the Champions League resumes this week. But just how many English players are likely to feature in Europe's premier club competition at the last-16 stage?

Well, the answer may surprise you. It probably will not be more than 12, even though there are more teams from England remaining in the competition than any other nation - four.

When BBC Sport looked at the starting line-ups of Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool for the last round of Champions League group games in December it found that only 11 Englishman were present.

It is a worrying statistic, especially if you are new England coach Fabio Capello. It is even more worrying, given that of those 11 Englishmen, Jamie Carragher and Paul Scholes have retired from international football.

"Given those statistics the job of the England coach will become increasingly difficult," former England technical director Howard Wilkinson told BBC Sport.  "Your best players need to be playing against the best players in the Premier League and the Champions League consistently."


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[size=1]Different nationalities likely to play in Champions League last 16 games[/size]

A worrying statistic?
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loyalroyal
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when was the last time you did something for the first time??
agrred but i think that there is alot of english talent breaking through at the moment i think in five years the statistics will be very different

English players that i can see being at a top four club in five years:

Micah richards
Ashley young
David Bentley
Gabbie Agbobglahor
Arron Lennon


According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist
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Rovers4life
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I just think more english players need to play first team football in epl. Last week Villadolid in Spain started with 11 Spanish players. I know ther are not one of top teams but the players are getting the experience they need
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man utd would have more top 4 if they went back to giving there youth a chance instead of shipping them out all the while <_<
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LoyalRoyal
Feb 18 2008, 11:35 AM
agrred but i think that there is alot of english talent breaking through at the moment i think in five years the statistics will be very different

English players that i can see being at a top four club in five years:

Micah richards
Ashley young
David Bentley
Gabbie Agbobglahor
Arron Lennon

Yeah Micah Richards is gonna be in a top four team... City once they've broken into the top four :cheeky: :cheeky: :cheeky:
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when was the last time you did something for the first time??
same goes for ashley young and abonglahor at villa they may well be there in five years with mr learner's spending
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LoyalRoyal
Feb 18 2008, 11:52 AM
same goes for ashley young and abonglahor at villa they may well be there in five years with mr learner's spending

keeping o'neill is the key as he's only on a 1 yr rolling contract
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loyalroyal
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when was the last time you did something for the first time??
oh completely without o'neil they have no chance but o'neil seems to me the sort of man who wants to finnish a job i dont think villa have too much to worry about unless fergie retirers that is ;)
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I think British players should be the main focus because we are in GB,
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LoyalRoyal
Feb 18 2008, 11:56 AM
oh completely without o'neil they have no chance but o'neil seems to me the sort of man who wants to finnish a job i dont think villa have too much to worry about unless fergie retirers that is ;)

O'Neil seems to like building a team, I'm sure he'll stay at Villa. I mean why wouldn't he? he has a good group of players, financial backing and his team are doing well in the league.
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would he stay if 1 of the "big 4 " came calling ?
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norwichnutta
Feb 18 2008, 01:05 PM
would he stay if 1 of the "big 4 " came calling ?

I honestly don't know. I feel however as if O'Neil especially likes the building of the team and the club. Maybe he won't get as much satisfaction from managing a bigger side.
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well 4 of our players could be english, over 1/3 of the team so i'm happy with that :)
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It's cool to see some top English talent kickin it in the Champs League. There would probably be a lot more if we had players playing for other European clubs as well.
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Rovers4life
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Instead of loaning yoth to lower leagues, loan them abroad
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