[I_Rossoneri]

I think it's home grown - so the likes of Fabregas would be considered 'English' enough to play.

The only thing that's annoying me about the whole thing is that it all seems to have come about during Englands dominance of Europe. How come there was no talk of this from UEFA with the all Spanish and all Italian finals? Typical!

In my opinion, this doesn't need to be introduced into the first team. Take on the problem at it's source - youth football. If no foreigners are allowed in youth teams it will help development, and it will also stop teams stealing youngsters from other countries.

Ironically this comes after England fail to qualify for Euro 2008...

There are too many foreigners in the prem, giving younger English players a chance will benefit England in future years.

[kurtsimonw]

I'm not sure that's the only reason. BBC did an article a few days ago comparing the big 4 leagues and how many home and foreign players they had. England and Germany weren't too far off each other, yet the German NT is fine!

[I_Rossoneri]

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Arsenal would be screwed (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

This post has been edited by I_Rossoneri: May 30 2008, 09:21 PM

[kurtsimonw]

Most would. Only 2 teams in the league meet the limits! I think most could at a push though, United have 6 English players starting in the CL Final, so I think it'd mean they'd just dominate the league even more if this rule was bought in.

[dst]

I still don't see a problem right now. This is just more Blatter bs! I don't like seeing teams field only foreigners but how can anyone say this is a problem? If that's what a club wants to do then they should be able to do it in my opinion.

Also, I couldn't care less about what will happen to Arsenal or United. Do you guys realize Milan is in big trouble if this stupid thing is applied? NOT A SINGLE ONE OF OUR CURRENT STARTERS WILL BE STARTERS IN 2012 WHEN THIS IS PLANNED TO GO THROUGH!!!

[Fillipo Simone]

^ Except maybe Pirlo, right? With 34, team captain,...

Nah, 5 years to go, Milan will do what is neccesary. We'll just buy some younger italian players and I also belive Paloschi will be there plus at least some of the other primaveras/young players.

[dst]

Of course we'll do what it takes but I'm just pointing out that we're not assured...

[whoarethepatriot...]

This will change nothing as a "homegrown" player is the Fabregas type (trained in a country regardless of nationality between 15-21) all it does is encourages clubs to buy them young. Whats worse is that home talents like (future versions of) Palsochi for us, Balotelli for Inter and Giovinco for Juve may be pushed out for players like Fabregas who clearly are not homegrown.

Something needs to change and this proposal will not not help

[morgoth]

This will change nothing as a "homegrown" player is the Fabregas type (trained in a country regardless of nationality between 15-21) all it does is encourages clubs to buy them young. Whats worse is that home talents like (future versions of) Palsochi for us, Balotelli for Inter and Giovinco for Juve may be pushed out for players like Fabregas who clearly are not homegrown.

Something needs to change and this proposal will not not help

Again, it's not about home grown players but about national players, as far as I'm concerned Fabregas isn't eligible to play for England, so that rules him out ...

[kurtsimonw]

Again, it's not about home grown players but about national players, as far as I'm concerned Fabregas isn't eligible to play for England, so that rules him out ...

"If ultimately passed, the rule would see all clubs forced to field at least six homegrown players per match, in an attempt to encourage the development of local talent in countries flooded by imports."

It is homegrown. So Faregas WOULD be considered 'English' in a sense. I think it means players between the ages of 15 and 21 need to play at least 3 years of their football in a certain country in order to be considered homegrown by that country.

It will just cause teams to steal youngsters from one another on an even more regular basis. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

[Jack Sparrow]

^^

Well the reverse would also work out kurt. Teams would be less eager to let any of their youngsters with potential go out easy. For eg. Barca would probably just make a better offer than what Arsenal did to keep Cesc in.

[whoarethepatriot...]

Italian and Spanish teams cant fight it out with Premiership clubs financially and also they cant offer below 18 year olds professional contracts. Nothing is going to dissuade them from doing taking youth from other clubs

This is the bigger problem and Platini needs to do something about it

[morgoth]

Definition of 6+5
- At the beginning of each match, each club must field at least 6 who are 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).

This is from fifa.com

[dst]

(IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Morgoth I don't think they're paying attention...

[morgoth]

(IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Morgoth I don't think they're paying attention...

Me too (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) that's why I changed the size, because size really matter ...