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6+5 Rule

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Tennessee Blue Mike said:
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If implemented wouldn't the big teams take a huge hit. I know Arsenal would. What everyones take if it does come to fruition.
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my first question would be about how it was implemented, would players like anichebe and yobo count for us, having grown up in england (as they were once eligible for the english national team).

tbh i think 6 is a bit extreme, lets think about that 6 english players per team starting, for the top 7 teams thats 42 players starting, obviously all of them aren't going to be international quality.

i feel this will have the impact of causing the best english players to gravitate towards top clubs, if a club like arsenal have to lose international quality players, they will look wherever they can to replace them, and pay any money, which means english players will become insanely overinflated.

also, our steals like cahill, arteta, pienaar will all be less valuable, because they'd take away from our 5 foreign player allocation. poorer clubs can compete with the rich largely because of shrewd investment outside of the overinflated english market, and as it will be difficult to purchase english players out of england, that option will severely diminish.

basically, i really do like the intention of the rule, but as mourinho had said, its impossible to have the best club league and best national team. the rule will segment the transfer market completely, creating one domestic market and one foreign one. further, if this was instituted across europe, every country's players would institute it, which would cause all around inflation of players, and would most likely lead to players being strongly sought by clubs in their home countries (cos they're 6/5ths as valueable as other players right off the bat). i like the blending of players right now, i enjoy seeing club teammates shake hands before they square off on the international level, and i'd rather not see europe revert to feudal nation states with very little overlap.
 
On one hand I'm not for it, on the other hand our academy has produced some really good players and a 6+5 rule may be the only way we have a chance to win the league and break up the "big 4's" dominance. I'm torn.
 
Terrible rule. English players should be selected on merit, not nationality. Against Newcastle for instance, we had Howard, Yobo, Castillo, Arteta, Fellaini, Saha, Jo and Anichebe on the field at any one point in time, so we'd have been well and truely screwed.
 

As an EU national you are entitled to take up work or look for a job in another EU country (Guess this applies to footballers!)

As the report states, most EU governments view this as illegal.
I suppose they could put limits on players from outside the EC but I can't see the point in that.
 
It only takes a quick glance at how good the England team was in the 70's to see how having a league full of English players is no factor at all in having a good England team. Make our players better and you'll achieve both more players in the PL and a better national side.
 
At the moment it would be illegal to refuse EU nationals a place in a football team. Obviously that doesn't include nationals of other continents. But even if it could be wangled so that the rule became legal, I would be against it. Foreign players have made our leagues far better. I'm all for people playing football on merit, rather than nationality. Everton could field 11 Africans, Spaniards or Pakistanis and I wouldn't care one jot.

If we want football to thrive on a national level in Britain, government needs to involve itself at grassroots and promote the necessary infrastructure so that it is taught at the highest level, with the best possible facilities. Forcing "foreigners" out of the game won't, as Bruce points out, make us any more successful as a footballing nation.
 
Well to be honest im not bothered about the law, im trying to work out wheather this will be a good or bad thing for us.

With the new rules in terms of boundires governing how you can bring young players in to your acadamy, surely thatmeans that Clubs who are one in a huge city like Newcastle are at a massive advantage, Birmingham have three clubs, we have us and the ****e, while i dont know how many are in London. All seems a bit unequitable to me.

It wont change a lot instead of the top clubs spending wads on foreginers, theyl spend wads on an even smaller pool of young english players.

Farcical!
 

This whole argument about our young lads not getting a game is crap. We complain bitterly about the number of foreign players here, how many of our lads go abroad to get games? If you can't break through here you go where you can. Players from every other country in the world go abroad at a young age to further their education. The problem is that our lot are either too stupid to live abroad or setup too easily with a nice wage for doing not much to bother.

Maybe that there's your answer as to why we don't have enough quality young players.
 
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