6+5 Nonsense

[Fulham Broadway 16,986]

Always be the club -dont like nationalism.

Chelsea or cricket ???

[EskWeston 696]

It would be just as good in my opinion to encourage English players to play abroad! Italians, Spanish, Brazillian ect... players scattered all over the place! How many english players are currently playing abroad?

It doesn't help the matter thats for sure.

The UEFA homegrown rule is a very good one, just from our point of view it means we HAVE to make something out of our academy fast because it cost us on the size of our squad last season!

[Fulham Broadway 16,986]

English players do not go abroad in the main because they are extremely lazy at, or do not want to learn another language.

I'm all for players coming through our academy -the price to pay would be a drop in the clubs fortunes, and this proposed ruling is designed to do just that -to decrease the potencey of the EPL and improve the status of foreign league clubs.

[bombayblue™ 55]

Always be the club -dont like nationalism.

Chelsea or cricket ???

before i started watching football, I was a cricket buff thru and thru, then i shifted home and circumstances changed and the only sport i had the option of playing was football, got addicted and now theres no looking back..

[bombayblue™ 55]

English players do not go abroad in the main because they are extremely lazy at, or do not want to learn another language.

I'm all for players coming through our academy -the price to pay would be a drop in the clubs fortunes, and this proposed ruling is designed to do just that -to decrease the potencey of the EPL and improve the status of foreign league clubs.

The other reason imo being they get paid bloody well here compared to other leagues.. You wouldn't believe David Villa's wages if i told you.. valencia still has a salary cap..

[EskWeston 696]

English players do not go abroad in the main because they are extremely lazy at, or do not want to learn another language.

I'm all for players coming through our academy -the price to pay would be a drop in the clubs fortunes, and this proposed ruling is designed to do just that -to decrease the potencey of the EPL and improve the status of foreign league clubs.

Your right there is an element of lazyness in it. But i think that would be better to adress somehow than trying to force clubs to play more English players.

I am not sure if next season it is 3 or 4 homegrowns we are supposed to have. We have JT as one. And there is the possibility of Mancienne and Cork being involved next season but other than that we have no-one else ready yet. Sinclair is not eligable still i think because of his loan spells!!

[Fulham Broadway 16,986]

Your right there is an element of lazyness in it. But i think that would be better to adress somehow than trying to force clubs to play more English players.

I am not sure if next season it is 3 or 4 homegrowns we are supposed to have. We have JT as one. And there is the possibility of Mancienne and Cork being involved next season but other than that we have no-one else ready yet. Sinclair is not eligable still i think because of his loan spells!!

I dont know how it can be addressed. It's up to the individual players to want to learn Spanish or German, but it's a general trait with English speakers -a laziness in wanting to speak other languages.

To my mind players picked should be on meritocracy not nationality.

The roots of the problem can be seen as Sky and television coverage. The EPL is the richest, attracts oligarchs, and the best players because of TV revenue. One way for FIFA to get down off their high horse is to have more widespread televised football -including for instance African football. This would make the EPL less attractive to 'foreign mercenaries' and parasitcal investors, and the talent spread would be more even.

[EskWeston 696]

I dont know how it can be addressed. It's up to the individual players to want to learn Spanish or German, but it's a general trait with English speakers -a laziness in wanting to speak other languages.

To my mind players picked should be on meritocracy not nationality.

The roots of the problem can be seen as Sky and television coverage. The EPL is the richest, attracts oligarchs, and the best players because of TV revenue. One way for FIFA to get down off their high horse is to have more widespread televised football -including for instance African football. This would make the EPL less attractive to 'foreign mercenaries' and parasitcal investors, and the talent spread would be more even.

Both Italian and Spanish football have had their period of dmominance when everyone watched their leagues. At the moment it is the premier leagues turn. I don't think that is a reason to do it. Looking at the national team it is clear that there is not a good enough group of English players to pick from, although it is looking much better for the future - that is a reason to try and strengthen English football.

[Fulham Broadway 16,986]

Both Italian and Spanish football have had their period of dmominance when everyone watched their leagues. At the moment it is the premier leagues turn. I don't think that is a reason to do it. Looking at the national team it is clear that there is not a good enough group of English players to pick from, although it is looking much better for the future - that is a reason to try and strengthen English football.

Spanish and Italian football had their dominance pre TV money days, and the EPL having its foreign influx . I wouldnt like to see English football go down the pan, but it has to be looked at in context. To some extent prople are still getting off on '66 and all that -for me that went down the pan with 3 lions and the Lightning Seeds, ..England are and always will be -even with FIFAs ruling, also rans.

-UK population , not England is what 60 million ? England must be 40 million tops. Its a global game -Brazils population is 190 million, Nigeria has 150 million people, even the fucking Phillipines has 88 million. In context as more countries get into the game it stands to reason that England will not have a big resource of players.

FIFAS plan will not stop financial dominance, or make English football great, but it will hinder non European countries in their players coming to Europe

[bombayblue™ 55]

we have 1 billion population yet ranked more than 100

[Aesthetic Relic 301]

Breaking on SSN that this will be coming into effect.....not sure which season it will start though

Definition

At the beginning of each match, each club must field at least 6 players eligible to play for the national team of the country of the club. However, there is no restriction on the number of non-eligible players under contract with the club, nor on substitutes to avoid non-sportive constraints on the coaches (potentially 3+8 at the end of a match).

Explanation

The 6+5 rule in club football has been accepted as a resolution by FIFA at its meeting in Sydney on 29 and 30 May 2008. The objective of this rule is to restore the national identity of football clubs who have increasingly resorted to fielding foreign players in their squad. It is also intended to reduce the increasing gap between the big and small football clubs.

Could be an interesting one for us.

[Laylabelle 9,411]

Even more intresting for Arsenal!!

Well more of a reason to bring in youth players in more,Sinclair,Mancinne etc they'd qualify

[EskWeston 696]

Very interesting, this is a compeltely different turn of events from the current "Home-Grown" UEFA rule, which allows us to play players like Stoch as a home grown player.

6 players from the country of the club. A.Cole, JT, Lampard, J.Cole..... thats only 4 definate starters!! Mancienne and Sinclair would make 6.

6 for the "starting" 11 is a bold move!! Time for us to start fast tracking some English youngsters through. Mancienne, Sinclair, Bertrand and Cork for a start!

This will certainly chuck the cat amongst the pigeons. Hopefully it will be a while until it comes into effect and we can get ourselves sorted.