What brexit means for UK leagues.

[chrismpw]

In the past, before football was invented in 1992, most players in the league were British. There was a British identity in the style of play (they didn't fall over at the sniff of a breeze of there being a defender nearby, and they played heroically) and British teams dominated Europe.

So I see a reduction in the number of overseas players as a good thing. At the very least their billions of British sky subscribers cash isn't going to bleed away to be spent in their home countries. It gives more opportunities to home grown talent and will reduce the pool of talent available abroad for the wealthiest teams to cherry pick from, thereby reducing the advantage that wealth brings to a team. It flattens the playing field and increases sporting competition and is therefore a good thing.

Before any of you clowns dismiss this reasoning as being patriotic, racist or whatever else, simply because I said "british" - I am neither. To me race us irrelevant- we are all inherently more or less the same irregardless of the patch if planet we were lucky to be born on. I have long held that Britain is a beautiful country ruled by psychopathic monsters who, since the Norman invasion, broke the will of the inhabitants and turned them into suppressed and repressed sheep who pay enormous taxes to fund an army of sheep controlled by the elite always ready to conserve the status quo. In this respect Britain is an absolutely hateful country ...

But its football back in the day . ...

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

Surely the same rules apply when we sign players from anywhere else in the world like south America,

If anything it might stop the likes of Chelsea and city signing everyone and loaning them out, it would actually mean we have a better chance of signing an U18 prospect if other clubs have already bought there allowed amount

 

[OneTrueLegend]

I could see premier league teams doing deals with clubs in the EU, where the player belongs to the premier league club but is loaned to the EU club for multiple years, until they meet the criteria to be able to play in the Premier League. We could even see a return to the type of deal Everton had with Irish side Home Farm in the mid 90's where we sponsored them and had first pick of their academy graduates.

 

[PITA]

How often do we sign under 18 foreign talent? Never

You could delete ‘under 18 foreign’ and the question would still be valid.

 

[WA Toffee]

In the past, before football was invented in 1992, most players in the league were British. There was a British identity in the style of play (they didn't fall over at the sniff of a breeze of there being a defender nearby, and they played heroically) and British teams dominated Europe.

So I see a reduction in the number of overseas players as a good thing. At the very least their billions of British sky subscribers cash isn't going to bleed away to be spent in their home countries. It gives more opportunities to home grown talent and will reduce the pool of talent available abroad for the wealthiest teams to cherry pick from, thereby reducing the advantage that wealth brings to a team. It flattens the playing field and increases sporting competition and is therefore a good thing.

Before any of you clowns dismiss this reasoning as being patriotic, racist or whatever else, simply because I said "british" - I am neither. To me race us irrelevant- we are all inherently more or less the same irregardless of the patch if planet we were lucky to be born on. I have long held that Britain is a beautiful country ruled by psychopathic monsters who, since the Norman invasion, broke the will of the inhabitants and turned them into suppressed and repressed sheep who pay enormous taxes to fund an army of sheep controlled by the elite always ready to conserve the status quo. In this respect Britain is an absolutely hateful country ...

But its football back in the day . ...

British clubs dominated Europe for less than 10 years. It may have been for longer if it wasn't for the loveables next door, but probably not much longer.
I have never been a fan of kick and rush and much prefer the technical aspect that international players have brought to our games. Not the journeymen players, but the likes of Henry, Bergkamp, Cantona, Laudrup etc. The artists of the game. The ones we very rarely produce in the UK.
If you prefer the blood and thunder of the British game, thats fine - we all want different things from the game, and it is more exciting than most European footy, but I will lament the day that the artisans find it difficult to come here just because some people in the home counties are scared of foreign people in their villages.

And I can't see it levelling the field, I think it will have the opposite effect. If the numbers of foreign players are limited, they will cost much more and only the few very wealthy clubs will have the means to sign them

 

[Bruce Wayne]

In the past, before football was invented in 1992, most players in the league were British. There was a British identity in the style of play (they didn't fall over at the sniff of a breeze of there being a defender nearby, and they played heroically) and British teams dominated Europe.

So I see a reduction in the number of overseas players as a good thing. At the very least their billions of British sky subscribers cash isn't going to bleed away to be spent in their home countries. It gives more opportunities to home grown talent and will reduce the pool of talent available abroad for the wealthiest teams to cherry pick from, thereby reducing the advantage that wealth brings to a team. It flattens the playing field and increases sporting competition and is therefore a good thing.

Before any of you clowns dismiss this reasoning as being patriotic, racist or whatever else, simply because I said "british" - I am neither. To me race us irrelevant- we are all inherently more or less the same irregardless of the patch if planet we were lucky to be born on. I have long held that Britain is a beautiful country ruled by psychopathic monsters who, since the Norman invasion, broke the will of the inhabitants and turned them into suppressed and repressed sheep who pay enormous taxes to fund an army of sheep controlled by the elite always ready to conserve the status quo. In this respect Britain is an absolutely hateful country ...

But its football back in the day . ...

If there was any meaningful restriction on who the biggest clubs could sign then that would simply precipitate them joining some kind of European league imo, as they would fall behind clubs across Europe who have no such restrictions.