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| Lack Of English Players At The Top 4 Clubs | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 18 2008, 11:43 AM (747 Views) | |
| Jeffers | Feb 18 2008, 04:45 PM Post #16 |
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i have noticed that recently Man Utd have been buying alot of portugease speakign players. but we always buy 1 english player each season recently |
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| RetardedDwarf | Feb 18 2008, 04:48 PM Post #17 |
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Its those bloody gooners letting the side down again If they only had 4 or 5 English players the stats would look ok.
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| Ricky | Feb 18 2008, 04:55 PM Post #18 |
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The stats are flawed though. Of the 16 Italians included - I presume Maldini, Totti, Toldo, Brocchi, Favalli, Inzaghi - would be in their list - none of whom are playing International football. Bonera, Ambrosini, Gilardino, Materazzi, Tonetto would'nt be first choice either! The stats don't prove anything really |
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| stacie | Feb 18 2008, 05:19 PM Post #19 |
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Is that all those amazingly talented CL standard English players who aren't already at clubs cos I keep hearing about those
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| flak | Feb 18 2008, 05:27 PM Post #20 |
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Probably Ricky, I think the English stats include Scholes and Carragher, then you have Brown, Carrick and a couple of others who wont start for England.
I didn't think there was that much talent breaking through at the moment, no more so than in previous years anyway. Other countries like Argentina are still producing more.
The Valencia squad who did really well in La Liga last season only had about 4 non-Spanish players in it as well. I think a lot of it is to do with the foreign owners that clubs can no longer give the youth a chance as the pressure on managers to get results is too much. Perhaps the Premiership has become too competitive? See the reason above. It's just not possible to bring the youth through unless they are an extrodinary talent who will fit into the Premiership straight away. Plus we have Foster, Carrick, Hargreaves, Rooney, Ferdinand, Neville, Brown.
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| ZeNastyBlade | Feb 18 2008, 07:22 PM Post #21 |
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Arguably Arsenal let the side down, looking at potential first teams if everyone was fit, United have 5 Scholes Neville Rio Rooney Hargreaves Liverpool with 3 Carra Gerrard Crouch Chelsea with 4 Terry Cole Lampard Cole Arsenal have err, Walcott, on the bench. And i agree if English players played for foreign teams that would help. |
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| stacie | Feb 18 2008, 07:27 PM Post #22 |
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I wish I could say 'I wish we had more English players in the first team' but I don't because they're not good enough yet. |
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| holiday | Feb 18 2008, 07:27 PM Post #23 |
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jus a few random points if i remeber rightly all spanish and italian clubs have restrictions on non-eu players...italy u were only allowed a certain number included on match day squad..and then more recentl, i think they are only allowed 1 non-eu signing a year spain - i think only allowed 4/5 non-eu players in the squad, hence they are always keen to get players nationalised e.g. baptista, messi the ecl promotes homegrown talent also, by stipulating certain number of players need to be from the youth system....but this leads to big clubd buying talent at a younger age wateva the rule,s the clubs will try to overcome them as they are primarily in it for success and money... |
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| flak | Feb 18 2008, 07:54 PM Post #24 |
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Yeah I think that's right Holiday, I heard the other day that Platini is still trying to push the 6 home-grown players rule through for the Premiership. |
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| stacie | Feb 18 2008, 07:56 PM Post #25 |
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Six would be quite a lot wouldn't it |
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| Monty | Feb 18 2008, 07:58 PM Post #26 |
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The price of English players would then increase more. And there would be alot of players not getting games at every club. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 18 2008, 07:59 PM Post #27 |
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anyone can get off a plane and claim to be british so i think it should be brroken down into countires e.g. england so this is right imo |
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| loyalroyal | Feb 18 2008, 08:00 PM Post #28 |
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when was the last time you did something for the first time??
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it would destroy clubs like Reading any decent english player would be snapped up by clubs above us leaving us with sh1te |
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| stacie | Feb 18 2008, 08:03 PM Post #29 |
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I don't know why people even talk about 'British players' - in football there is no such thing. |
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| Craig_the_Bhoy | Feb 18 2008, 08:06 PM Post #30 |
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thats pretty shocking tbh that Celtic can muster 6 home grown players where as FOUR english sides can only muster 11 together |
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If they only had 4 or 5 English players the stats would look ok.






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