Lack of English players in the squad

[bababoom 4,478]

Arsenal and Liverpool have a core of English players now, i would love Chelsea to have to same, hopefully in a few more years that'll change.

Considering half of 'The Board' thread is filled with discussion about the lack of English players in the squad and doesn't look like it's gonna stop anytime soon, will move those posts to here to avoid derailing that thread any further...

Edited September 4, 2014 by Jason

[iseah100 5,612]

Arsenal and Liverpool have a core of English players now, i would love Chelsea to have to same, hopefully in a few more years that'll change.

And they suck. I'll take our Belgian/Spanish core.

[Term-X 7,891]

And they suck. I'll take our Belgian/Spanish core.

This is an English club, it's important to sustain the culture, it really can't be stressed how important Terry is here. The club must do everything possible to get our English backbone back now Cole & Lamps have gone.

[iseah100 5,612]

This is an English club, it's important to sustain the culture, it really can't be stressed how important Terry is here. The club must do everything possible to get our English backbone back now Cole & Lamps have gone.

We still have Cahill who will probably be our next captain, after that who knows.

[Term-X 7,891]

In general I'd agree that the transfer policy/philosophy has changed. However, being a major club we're gonna have those moments of madness, like when we tried to sign Rooney, which was only a year ago.

[The only place to be 11,313]

In general I'd agree that the transfer policy/philosophy has changed. However, being a major club we're gonna have those moments of madness, like when we tried to sign Rooney, which was only a year ago.

That 'moment of madness' may well have won us the league.

[iseah100 5,612]

That 'moment of madness' may well have won us the league.

How was it a moment of madness? It's not like we were willing to spend £60m on him.

[The only place to be 11,313]

How was it a moment of madness? It's not like we were willing to spend £60m on him.

I absolutely agree. The figures doing the rounds were £25-30 million which was decent value for him and he scored 17 goals last season in a poor team.

He could've been the difference.

[iseah100 5,612]

I absolutely agree. The figures doing the rounds were £25-30 million which was decent value for him and he scored 17 goals last season in a poor team.

He could've been the difference.

Exactly. If that's a moment of madness, then what was it when we got Willian?

[Styles 9,790]

Rooney may well have won us the league last year but I'm glad the deal fell through. He is declining in my honest opinion and has lost all his explosiveness; I watched him against Burnley the other day and he was awful. He may turn it on once in a while but as a consistent, top level performer I think he's finished.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

No one has mentioned this, but surely we must be well in the positive regarding our net spent considering we get fees for loans? We have 25+ players out on loan too. Obviously not all will enforce a loan fee, but some of the significant players i.e. Bertrand, Torres, T. Hazard, Piazon, Chalobah, MVG etc?

I those in particular we don't get fees for because their wages are relatively high. I remember last season we paid about half of Nathanial's wages for his loan to Forrest. Burnely are of course can pay more, but I'm not sure they'd be willing to pay the full 30k/wk for a 20 year old.

[bababoom 4,478]

Jose said he wants to have more English players, i think once we start winning things it'll be easier to integrate our youth players into the team.