jamie_allan
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I want to talk about the home-grown rule. If clubs are going to need to have a squad of 25 players with 8 being home-grown the disparity between the top clubs in the premier league and the clubs lower in the league will increase as young english and welsh talent will be looked for more than foreign youngsters. This will increase the prices of the players and in effect we will get the people who should be playing for England in the coming years being in Tottenham and Aston Villa reserves rather than plying their trade elsewhere. Surely the majority of the top nations have their players playing in many different countries so many different playing styles are learnt by the players. This rule is supposedly set to make England become a better team but surely reducing restriction on nationalities but reducing squad sizes will mean some top english talent will move across to europe to play their football. Players such as Matt Derbyshire who was at Blackburn thrived when they moved to Olympiakos and he has now moved permanently. Repetition of this from a young age may see players playing for England that play league football in Scandinavia, Germany and France. This would also destroy the idea that a climate can win you the World Cup. Why do players that play in Spain and Italy often play for the top nations in the world cup, because they are playing in hotter climates work harder and are fitter so last the whole championships. If you look at the winners of the last two world cups, and last two europen cups you get a total of 96 players of which about a quarter of them did not play in the country they were playing for internationally. This may seem small. However, when you look at the 2002 Brazil side the players that were not playing in Brazil played in Germany, Italy, France and Spain. The 2004 Greece squad played in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy and two were playing in England (Dabizas and Stelios).
The 2006 Italy squad all played in Italy at the time and are one of the only modern international team to win a major trophy with all their players playing in that country. The 2008 Spain side had 18 players in Spain and 5 in England. Now looking at this the data shows that these countries have a nucleus of national talent and some payers who play overseas and bar a small percentage in England play in mainland Western Europe or in the case of Spain and Italy they are a mainland Western Europe country. These championships ahve been played in different climates yet mainland western European based players have done better than british and south american based players. Looking at England we currently have one 'overseas' player which is David Beckham. How many English players do you think play for non-British Europa League and Champions League teams? Im guessing zero maybe one in a Europa League team. Other national sides are spread across Europe and this is the reason England's youth system will not be helped by the home-grown rule.
The 2006 Italy squad all played in Italy at the time and are one of the only modern international team to win a major trophy with all their players playing in that country. The 2008 Spain side had 18 players in Spain and 5 in England. Now looking at this the data shows that these countries have a nucleus of national talent and some payers who play overseas and bar a small percentage in England play in mainland Western Europe or in the case of Spain and Italy they are a mainland Western Europe country. These championships ahve been played in different climates yet mainland western European based players have done better than british and south american based players. Looking at England we currently have one 'overseas' player which is David Beckham. How many English players do you think play for non-British Europa League and Champions League teams? Im guessing zero maybe one in a Europa League team. Other national sides are spread across Europe and this is the reason England's youth system will not be helped by the home-grown rule.
