Sentences with phrase «english homegrown players»

Not exact matches

In modern football and especially in the English Premier League, most teams will have more foreign nationals than homegrown players and while the whole idea is to bring the best from around the world this can have it's own problems.

If we replace Theo, we need a new homegrown to replace him... which means getting a different English player OR replacing another position with an English player.

Fulfill the homegrown quota, after that we don't need any more English players.

Like the Premier League, UEFA competitions also stipulate that clubs competing must have eight homegrown players in their squads, but Platini may want to follow the English top division's example.

Meanwhile, Guardiola also suggested that the fact that English players were so expensive meant that in order to build a homegrown core, he'd have to potentially look at the options at his disposal currently and work with what he has.

Just a few of years ago, after the «homegrown» rules were tightened up in the European Leagues, Arsene Wenger promised to build an «English core» of players, educated in the Arsenal academy and taught to play the Arsenal way.

Barkley would be a perfect fit for the Blues, who lack an alternative to Oscar in the number ten position, and are also in desperate need of more English players to fulfil their homegrown requirements, both in Europe and the Premier League.

Just proves again how overpriced English and especially homegrown players are.

Chelsea need to add homegrown talent to their squad as soon as possible and it won't come cheap: not only will they be playing the «English players premium», but the limited number of top class homegrown players available and Chelsea's desperation means that they can be held to ransom by clubs.

The Gunners have often sought to bring through a fresh selection of homegrown talent, but perversely, many of these players are from overseas rather than being actually English.

Even though he is a di # * head sometimes, undeniably we won't find a better homegrown English player.

The current homegrown quotas alone mean we should not sell talented English players, let alone to rivals.

All our english players are over rated, injury prone, overpaid and contribute nothing to Arsenal, if it wasn't for the homegrown rule there would be no reason to keep Walcott, Wilshere, Welbeck, Gibbs even Jenkinson who's equally not good enough

Even if Benitez leaves, the club will look to sign at least two more English players over the next month as they pursue a policy of signing more homegrown players to prepare for new UEFA guidelines.

The Football Association have proposed radical reforms aimed to increasing the number of homegrown players in the English leagues, and it now appears that those changes may be necessary.

City are under pressure to include more homegrown players in their squad and now look set to invest in this top English talent.

I think quota re homegrown / English players had something to do with his purchase..

The only reason as to why Wenger may be interested in such a purchase is to have more English / homegrown players in our squad as per the league regulations.

ffp is illegal why the complain, but homegrown rule is forcing avarage english players into big clubs to warm the bench!

All our english players are injury prone, gibbs, Ox, Jack, walcott, welbeck, but the good thing is they are homegrown, they are all made for the bench and thats why there is the bench.Regarding striker can wenger swallow the humble pie and buy Afobe back or buy charlie Austin to compete with giroud, walcott will be injured in one month

That moment when Tottenham has scored 8 more goals than Arsenal, conceded 3 less and done all this with 8 English players (3 homegrown since u18's) on the starting XI / bench.

They both gona struggle one homegrown rules kick in... While Hargreaves and Carrick tunrout to be high class english midfielders, the rest of th teams may be screwed... Remember we also have youth players in DGibbo, D Jones and R Jones coming through... our defence is a rock unit and versatile in their style of play.

Due to the sale or loan of English squad players, the Chelsea homegrown players 2017/2018 Champions League list features less well - known players than it would have done last season.

Its not really all that different from any of the other top leagues — yes, there's way more money but as you travel down the table you get to the larger homegrown contingent and I'd take the 50th best Spanish, French, German or Italian player over the 30th best English one and so on.

So, Owen Hargreaves, as a Bayern Munich trained player, isn't homegrown despite being English (sort of), but Nicolas Anelka is homegrown despite not being English and having played in France, Spain and Turkey as well as England.

Patrick Vieira dismisses the suggestion that English football's lack of homegrown talent is due to the number of foreign players in the Premier League.