Did it bother anyone that we started with NO...

One of the main problems is the fee commanded for English players. Milner cost more than both Silva and YaYa (Obviously taking away wages)
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James Milner (Aston Villa): £26m

Yaya Toure (Barcelona): £24m

David Silva (Valencia): £24m

Figures taken from MuEN

Also Negredo cost half of what Liverpool paid for Andy Carroll
 
Not at all. English players are vastly over-rated in the main. And that's why they're overpriced. I love Milner but he's nowhere near as good as Yaya and Silva yet cost more. What is the value of the estimated transfer fees that the England squad would get? And then compare that with other national teams prices.

EDIT: I bet Andros 'Pele' Townsend costs about 80 million right now because he scored once and set someone up.
 
Went to the game on Saturday, and not once did I think, wow there's no Enlishmen out there.
My son and I were just eulogising about the quality of Silva, how Nasri is so much better this season,
Sergio back to his best and how Yaya has become our free kick specialist.

Who cares where they are all from, the play for City. That's all that matters to me.
 
Definitely NOT. The media should concern themselves with the fact that our national cricket team doesnt have 11 Englishmen in it!!
 
Not really.

If English players were good enough, they would play, simple. It would be ridiculous to discriminate against nationality and play inferior players. I don't even think that would necessarily help English players progress, if they were given special privileges there would be less incentive to improve.
 
Why then did the Rags manage to win so many league with a decent amount of Brtit players? If it's about English players being more expensive then we should pay that money. It's been proven time sand time again that having a smattering of English players in your starting 11 wins you the league.
 
malg said:
Why then did the Rags manage to win so many league with a decent amount of Brtit players? If it's about English players being more expensive then we should pay that money. It's been proven time sand time again that having a smattering of English players in your starting 11 wins you the league.
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Rags aren't treated the same. Roy Hodgson complained that Lescott wasn't playing enough, yet made Danny Welbeck a fixture even though they had very similar amounts of play time last season and he's shit.
 
SuperYaya said:
Not really.

If English players were good enough, they would play, simple. It would be ridiculous to discriminate against nationality and play inferior players. I don't even think that would necessarily help English players progress, if they were given special privileges there would be less incentive to improve.
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Agreed. If you were picking a European starting 11 which Englishmen would you include? I can't think of any on present form.
That's the problem at International level we just haven't produced any European class never mind world class players so our national side fails at the highest level of competition. We look great in the qualifiers but when the real competition starts we can't compete.

The answer surely comes down to coaching and that has to start at grass roots level.

Looking forward to tomorrow night's game. Hoping to see our strongest side for first 45 minutes to wrap up the game by half-time!
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