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Should Clubs have to field XIs with 3 hometown heros
- Thread starter PaPaGeorGeo
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Parra Power
Manager
That's ridiculous..... a homegrown rule should be brought in for that alone
celtic_bhoy
Senior Squad
Yes.
Can't stop the rush...
Hip Hop is Dead
Maybe 2, but I agree.
PaPaGeorGeo
Fan Favourite
something has to be done about this but setting a maxium wouldnt help the competition within league. The rich teams will continue to get richer and richer buying the best english players out pricing the smaller clubs. English talent like Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott will be influenced by the money at opportunites and will leave there local clubs for Champions League glory.
Inforcing something like this will solve one problem and open up many more
Inforcing something like this will solve one problem and open up many more
celtic_bhoy
Senior Squad
Dreath said:
That whole reply doesnt even make sense.
V
Virgo
Guest
Salary caps would be the way to go actually in my opinion.
A rule of 3 homegrown players would be just a way to hide the bigger problem in my opinion which is the big clubs getting richer with increased TV revenues and merchandising and the smaller clubs getting poorer.
A rule of 3 homegrown players would be just a way to hide the bigger problem in my opinion which is the big clubs getting richer with increased TV revenues and merchandising and the smaller clubs getting poorer.
Its very sad to face an english team that doesnt even have a single english player. Just look this week, a spanish team faced Arsenal, a Arsenal with 0 english and 2 spaniards, Madrid lost and i cant scream "f*ck you englishmen" cause they are not even english! 
Or to face a german team with 4 brazilians, and 2 german players...
I loved the past when there was at least 6-7 home players in every team.
Or to face a german team with 4 brazilians, and 2 german players...
I loved the past when there was at least 6-7 home players in every team.
RuiCosta_10
Starting XI
Zlatan said:
Bullsh*t the club has to identify himself with the country... It doesn't make absolute no sense Arsenal playing without a single English player! It just doens't make sense at all...
I agree...
Rob said:
That is also another reason why we don't like buying English players.
12 mill on a 16 year old English player!?
Arsenal are a buisness as well as a football club. They will try not to pay over the odds for some-one who's English, when they can get cheaper abroad. Where is the logic from a financial point of view to spend more money on someone with an English passport, than on someone just as good and cheaper but with a french/spanish etc. passport.
The reason we bought him? It was probably a mix of pressure from the nationalists and that he's a good player. But it was a catch-22 situation for us. If we bought him, we overpaid, if we didn't we'd be seen as anti-English. Plus its not as if we've not bought English players before... its just that they sucked. Jeffers for instance. We've had talented English youth players, but their attitudes sucked. Bentley thought he was God's gift to football, when he was good, but not Arsenal level. Pennant, perhaps could of made it, but he was a drink driver and a compete spaz.
Look a the English buys from teams.
Rio Ferdinand- 30 mill. Not worth over 10.
Lampard was 11 mill. At the time he wasn't worth anything over 5 mill. He's become a great, but at the time he was anything but great.
Rooney- 25 mill. Great talent and player, but 25 mill for an 18 year old?
Woodgate to Newcastle- 11 mill right?
Theo Walcott- 12 mill for a 16 year old!? How many foreign 16 year olds cost 12 million!?
We can produce home-grown players, this season we could play 2 every match with a bright star in Gilbert as a back up. Yeah we haven't played an English player in 700 minutes, but we're not gonna play some crappy reserve player over a better foreign player just because he's English are we? All our English players are either injured or not good enough yet. I'd like us to have a few more, yes. But if it's a choice between having a world class team and squad and having a good team and squad with loads of Brits in, i'd take the first one every time.
Sevillista
Starting XI
I wouldn't want three English players bringing down my team. 
But seriously, the logistics of it would be terrible. Say you have the minimum number of homegrown players on the field. If one gets injured, you have to have a homegrown player of the same position ready to go in for him or shift your whole configuration to get one of another position on the field. It forces the team to make different substitutions than it normally would, etc.
But seriously, the logistics of it would be terrible. Say you have the minimum number of homegrown players on the field. If one gets injured, you have to have a homegrown player of the same position ready to go in for him or shift your whole configuration to get one of another position on the field. It forces the team to make different substitutions than it normally would, etc.
Xenophobes.
Wenger's response:
“For me when you represent a club it's about values and qualities,” he said. “It's not about passports. Unless you change rules, we do nothing wrong. Are we not respecting every rule that exists at the moment? That's why I don't accept that way of thinking.
“It's really disappointing for two reasons. First, we are kicking racism out of football and racism starts there. The second part is that players accept the technical opinion of a manager, but not that kind of remarks.
“It's a regressive way of thinking. I never would like to say to a player ‘sorry, you are better, but you're not playing because you don't have the right passport'. It's just not acceptable unless the rules change or you do not want to make a [united] Europe.
Wenger's response:
“For me when you represent a club it's about values and qualities,” he said. “It's not about passports. Unless you change rules, we do nothing wrong. Are we not respecting every rule that exists at the moment? That's why I don't accept that way of thinking.
“It's really disappointing for two reasons. First, we are kicking racism out of football and racism starts there. The second part is that players accept the technical opinion of a manager, but not that kind of remarks.
“It's a regressive way of thinking. I never would like to say to a player ‘sorry, you are better, but you're not playing because you don't have the right passport'. It's just not acceptable unless the rules change or you do not want to make a [united] Europe.
I thought the EU was there to make a economic union making it possible for Europeans to work anywhere in Europe?
Arsenal obey that rule.
Maybe if clubs stop trying to charge through the roof for English players we could buy some. Shawn Wright-Phillips was 24m GBP!! If he was from France he would have cost 4m, at best.
You know how much Gael Clichy cost us? He was 500k. An Englishman of his quality would have gone for 8-10m.
And how come when Wenger buys a Frenchman it's "Jobs for the boys" but when Mourinho buys a Portuguese player it's "He'll do well for Chelsea"?
Arsenal obey that rule.
Maybe if clubs stop trying to charge through the roof for English players we could buy some. Shawn Wright-Phillips was 24m GBP!! If he was from France he would have cost 4m, at best.
You know how much Gael Clichy cost us? He was 500k. An Englishman of his quality would have gone for 8-10m.
And how come when Wenger buys a Frenchman it's "Jobs for the boys" but when Mourinho buys a Portuguese player it's "He'll do well for Chelsea"?