What would Brexit mean for Everton? For English football?

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johnnydawg68

johnnydawg68

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Interesting article in the Echo which doesn't go very deep, but thought it worthy of discussion here. Without getting into the politics of it, focusing strictly on Everton and football in general, here's what I see as pros and cons:

Pros:
The inability of bringing in non International players potentially opens up space for the academy lads to break through. Since we don't really bring in a ton of non-international Euro types, I don't see this hurting us as much. Also good for British players for every PL team.

If you want the BPL to go back to being mostly British (i.e. before the Prem), then you will consider this a good thing. Potentially a good thing for the English National Team as a result, with a larger talent pool of English players with actual real world experience coming through. Simple as a math exercise, this should be good for the national team.

Cons:
If the British academy lads aren't good enough, we'll suffer as a result of not being able to compete for the top tier talent that could get a visa without Champions League football.

The quality of the league will go down. Not much to argue about here. When you shrink the player pool, the product will suffer, and tv revenues will probably not be the lottery win they have been in the past.

With the increased need for homegrown talent, the lower leagues will get crushed even more than they are now. Any player with even a hint of talent will get snatched up at an even greater rate than currently.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/what-brexit-mean-liverpool-everton-11463606
 

Well my kids English and at an academy, he's better than those foreign lads anyway so I don't think it matters for him. As far as Everton there isn't freedom of movement with Australia, America, Costa Rica, South Africa etc so I don't think it will be an issue either way for everton
 
I think the premier league would be OK with brexit as they had that Europe ruling recently against the pl about football rights being available through Greek tv Europe wide
 

johnnydawg68 said:
Interesting article in the Echo which doesn't go very deep, but thought it worthy of discussion here. Without getting into the politics of it, focusing strictly on Everton and football in general, here's what I see as pros and cons:

Pros:
The inability of bringing in non International players potentially opens up space for the academy lads to break through. Since we don't really bring in a ton of non-international Euro types, I don't see this hurting us as much. Also good for British players for every PL team.

If you want the BPL to go back to being mostly British (i.e. before the Prem), then you will consider this a good thing. Potentially a good thing for the English National Team as a result, with a larger talent pool of English players with actual real world experience coming through. Simple as a math exercise, this should be good for the national team.

Cons:
If the British academy lads aren't good enough, we'll suffer as a result of not being able to compete for the top tier talent that could get a visa without Champions League football.

The quality of the league will go down. Not much to argue about here. When you shrink the player pool, the product will suffer, and tv revenues will probably not be the lottery win they have been in the past.

With the increased need for homegrown talent, the lower leagues will get crushed even more than they are now. Any player with even a hint of talent will get snatched up at an even greater rate than currently.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/what-brexit-mean-liverpool-everton-11463606
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Seems like it would make transfers of European players more difficult, so there might be an increase in players from non-Euro nations (or domestic product, more likely). Might also affect some TV contracts? Not sure what else it would do.
 
Maybe see investors pulling out to foreign leagues when their quality increases due to Premier League and Premier League money not competing for transfers.
 

catcherintherye said:
In all honesty Brexit would be disastrous for Premier League teams. It would make it increasingly difficult to market the premier league globally and would have a huge affect. as we would struggle to sign up and coming players.
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Aren't most of the restrictions are imposed by FA/PL? Euro players get an easier transfer because of the EU? Seems like the FA/PL need to relax the draconian conservative English stance on foreigners playing their game, and that solves a lot of the problems.
 
In footballing terms all it will mean is that the rules applied to the vast majority of countries will be applied to an additional 27 countries.
PL clubs will still be able to bring in International players , players with outstanding potential or players where transfer fees are set at a certain level and they are the players that add to the competition.Work permits will still be available but just more will be required
Average journeymen players from Europe won't be able to ship up at PL clubs or indeed clubs lower down the pyramid, particularly in the Championship, and that's key for we will see players advance through non league and we will see CL teams look to bring in players from Div 1&2
 
Positives

We have a great academy and the price of top home grown talent would go up.

Likes of arsenal and chelsea would have to stop nicking kids from abroad.

Players will have to be proven internationals or youth internationals meaning less chance of buying [Poor language removed] players.

Negatives
None that i can see. Already done my postal vote.
 

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