Kick the foreigners out!

After the counter performance of England on the path to Euro something had to be done. The coach was sacrificed as usual, but for once the inventors of the beautiful game realized that the problem might be somewhere else (England hasn't win anything in � 41 years!!!).

So what are they considering? Merging the Scottish, English, Welsh and N. Ireland team together so as to increase the pool of talented players and avoid that great geniuses like George Best be waisted in small team that will never have a chance to win anything? No.

Send the young English lads to Sao Paulo for them to learn the magics and forget their all too usual kick and run that plagues great players like Peter Crouch? Nope.

Finally pool money together so as to create a real school of football the way France did 20 years ago creating people like Thierry Henry? Wrong again.

They are talking about decreasing the number of foreigners in the Premiership. Indeed, more aliens means less room for English players thus less chances for them to become good. This is basically the football version of English jobs for English workers.

But of course this is totally flawed. If English players were good people from the whole of Europe would fight over them, instead (with the notable exception of Beckham) the English players are not prone to emigrate. The comparison between the English and the French (or Croatian, Brazilian, Portuguese, Argentinian) teams of the WC06 is very clear: almost no English player came from a non-English club while almost no French player came from a French club.

Actually other countries are in the same situation as England, Spain and Italy tend to play with players from their own championship but (at least one of them) they still do well in major competitions.

So do you think the Premier League would be better without Adebayor, Fabregas, and co?

Who's suggesting this.....

Edited by Paul - 27-Nov-2007 at 00:22

Klinsman was just rubbing salt in England's wounds by showing interest in the job. He has no intention of actually going for it.

Originally posted by ulrich von hutten Originally posted by Paul Who's suggesting this.....   You get a few nutty commentators suggest it, every other week, but no-one ever listens.   Fact is the Premiership is the biggest is sold around the world, a Chinese player in Man U sells it to a billion Chinese. There's no-way the business that run the business will have anything but theway it is now.   And what the FA have just done is put Arsene Wenger in charge of choosing the new manager. strange if they want the foreigners out. And the candidates for the job are, Jose Marino, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Martin O'Neil (all approached by the FA) and (Raphael Benitez, Jurgen Klinsman and Fabio Capella) who have all approached the FA... all foreigners.       If Juergen Klinsmann would agree, he would be accused of high treason.

Its a stupid enough idea in fairness. Players can only get better playing with the likes of Rosicky, Alonso, Drogba etc. They add a certain flair to the game other countries lack. The problem isn't with too many foreigners in the game, the problem is that most kids nowadays are too busy playing their PS3's and whatnot rather than kicking about in the park.

EPL could turn into U.S. Housing market, all those foreign investors, are they there to stay or make some quick fame and fortune?  The bubble always looks the fullest right before it bursts.  Of course that could happen whether  they limit the foreign players or not, but it doesn't help.  After that they won't be able to afford too many superstar foreign players, so there, the problem's solved. 

football acadamies are vital, look at what liverpool and manchester united have produced in the past, saddly both these teams are taking easy routes, ie buying other clubs finds more and more.