12 foreign players in the squad, who would ours be?

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Bruce Wayne

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In the fallout from Brexit, it would mean that European players no longer have an automatic right to play in the Premier League. The FA would like to therefore reduce the number of foreign players teams can have in their squad from 17 to 12 (we currently have 14, 22 if you count those out on loan), but those players would now be free from any entry requirements, meaning players like Onyekuru would be free to play. If this were to happen, which 12 from our 21 foreign players would you have in the squad?

Who would our 12 be?

1GKJordan Pickford
2DFMason Holgate
3DFLeighton Baines (vice-captain)
4DFMichael Keane
5DFKurt Zouma (on loan from Chelsea)
6DFPhil Jagielka (captain)
8MFAndré Gomes (on loan from Barcelona)
10MFGylfi Sigurðsson
11FWTheo Walcott
12DFLucas Digne
13DFYerry Mina
14FWCenk Tosun
16MFJames McCarthy
17MFIdrissa Gueye
18MFMorgan Schneiderlin

19FWOumar Niasse
20FWBernard
22GKMaarten Stekelenburg
23DFSéamus Coleman (3rd captain)
26MFTom Davies
28MFKieran Dowell
29FWDominic Calvert-Lewin
30FWRicharlison
31FWAdemola Lookman
33GKJoão Virgínia
34MFBeni Baningime
35DFTyias Browning
36DFBrendan Galloway
41GKMateusz Hewelt
43DFJonjoe Kenny

Out on loan
7FWYannick Bolasie (at Aston Villa until June 2019)
9FWSandro Ramírez (at Real Sociedad until June 2019)
15DFCuco Martina (at Stoke City until June 2019)
21MFMuhamed Bešić (at Middlesbrough until June 2019)
27FWNikola Vlašić (at CSKA Moscow until June 2019)
32MFJoe Williams (at Bolton Wanderers until June 2019)
38DFMatthew Pennington (at Ipswich Town until June 2019)

49DFAntonee Robinson (at Wigan Athletic until June 2019)
DFCallum Connolly (at Wigan Athletic until June 2019)
DFLuke Garbutt (at Oxford United until June 2019)
DFAshley Williams (at Stoke City until June 2019)
FWKevin Mirallas (at Fiorentina until June 2019)
FWHenry Onyekuru (at Galatasaray until June 2019)
FWShani Tarashaj (at Grasshoppers until June 2019)
 
What does Seamus count as, here?

Seems we can select 12 from that list and trim the fat pretty easily, but can't be arsed with writing a list.
 

Doesn't appear so. Of course, whether they could make someone who signed a contract when they were allowed to play, then not be allowed to play is another matter. You would imagine that would see players take legal action for restraint of trade.
Governments and big businesses arbitrarily change contracts (pensions/terms of use etc) whenever it suits them. I see no difference with the fa here. Contracts are literally not worth the literal paper they're literally written on in our system. (Unless you have a LOT of money to afford the legal system.

Oh....
 

Plenty of players can get a dodgy passport from “family” and other such things. Others have probably been here long enough to apply for citizenship.

If clubs can find ways around complex cash flow rules they can find their way around this.
 

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