Home-grown Quota

[bombayblue™ 55]

As some of you might know. The FA Premier League has come out with a ruling that all squads will be limited to 25 players with no more than 17 players not being home-grown

What this means from what I have gathered is

All players will be termed home-grown if they have spent 3 entire seasons or 36 months before their 21st birthday or including the entire season in which they turned 21.

Also the squad size is restriced only to the players above the age of 21. That means a team can have any number of players below 21 even if they don't fit the home-grown criteria. So we can sign someone say aged 20 from a foriegn country and he won't be counted in the "25" until he turns 21.

Our tranfers will revolve around this rule so looking at our current squad.

Squad No. Name Age HG

1 Petr Cech 27 -

2 Branislav Ivanovic 26 -

3 Ashley Cole 29 YES

5 Michael Essien 27 -

6 Ricardo Carvalho 31 -

8 Frank Lampard 32 YES

10 Joe Cole 28 YES

11 Didier Drogba 32 -

12 Mikel 23 -

13 Michael Ballack 33 -

15 Florent Malouda 29 -

17 Jose Bosingwa 27 -

18 Yury Zhirkov 26 -

19 Paulo Ferreira 31 -

20 Deco 32 -

21 Salomon Kalou 24 -

22 Ross Turnbull 25 YES

24 Nemanja Matic 21 -

26 John Terry 29 YES

33 Alex 27 -

35 Juliano Belletti 33 -

39 Nicolas Anelka 31 -

40 Henrique Hilario 34 -

We have a squad of 23 players with 18 overseas players and our sales would revolve around cutting down on one.

We have just 5 home grown players above 21, so there is room for more.

I haven't counted Daniel Sturridge, as he is 20 and it doesn't really affect any selection criteria and other youth products under 21.

The easiest way to cut the count by one on the overseas players is to let Hilario go and promote someone like Sebak, Taylor or Walker.

Also getting back Loanees like Franco Di Santo and Slobdan Rajkovic would add an extra overseas players. While the rest including Stoch will fulfil the home grown criteria.

The players whose future is under the scanner are

Ricardo Carvalho: Best centre back in our squad when on form but his injuries and age make him a prime target for offloading

Joe Cole: Everyone at the club think he'll stay and Carlo is always right

Michael Ballack: He is 33 turning 34 in early next season. A one year rolling contract with a cut in wages wouldn't hurt and provide some experienced cover.

Paulo Ferreira: Personally I would like him to stay on forver, he is the ideal professional never moans never talks out of turn and Carlo seems to like him too but this season he has been 3rd choice RB and LB, and if we want our youth to step up, it's time we let him go with all due respect

Deco: Enough has been said already in the media about his impending move to Brasil to be closer to his ailing son.

Juliano Belletti: At 33 he has lost pace, 4th choice at Fullback and Holding midfield role. Time to move on

Henrique Hilario: Has been more than decent when called upon and if Turnbull and a keeper from our academy can step up, it might be time to bid Au Revoir. Then again he might just stay.

So,

Out

Carvalho

Paulo

Deco

Belletti

Hilario

In

An attacking Midfielder

Possibly a early-mid 20's Winger/Striker

Promoted from Academy:

Bruma, Kakuta, Borini, Hutchinson.

Mancienne and Stoch want first team games and I think they might be loaned out for yet another season.