English Players

[capiloton]

How about James Tomkins? We need to buy new CB. I'd prefer englishmen for this position.

 

[pee dubya]

Wilshere, Shaw, Caulker, McCarthy, Butland, Walcott, Ox, Cahill, Jagielka and Baines.

Ignoring attainability, the above would be good enough for the squad. I'm not sure any of them get in our first choice team though.

 

[thenabster]

Lee Hughes from Derby

Sam Byram from Leeds

Luke Shaw from Southampton

Conor Hunte from Chelsea

I think you mean Will Hughes and yes yes to him!

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

mcmannaman and nathon redmond ??

 

[thenabster]

Wilshere, Shaw, Caulker, McCarthy, Butland, Walcott, Ox, Cahill, Jagielka and Baines.

Ignoring attainability, the above would be good enough for the squad. I'm not sure any of them get in our first choice team though.

Baines would be great and could easily be our starting left back. Wilshere won't start because of Aguero, but boy would he be expensive. I like the possibility of bringing in a Cailker or Jagielka as 3rd choice center back.<br /><br />-- Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:00 pm --<br /><br />

mcmannaman and nathon redmond ??

Redmond moved to Norwich. Would be interesting to see his worth in the EPL.

 

[ACMilan]

AC the only rules we have on players are the CL rules which state to have a squad of 25, 4 must come out of the academy - no nationality involved so eg Rekik who has gone on loan to PSV is Dutch but he has been at our academy for the last couple of years by the time he attains the age of 21 he will be "homegrown" for the rules.


As for the prem league you can only have a squad of 25 if 8 players are from English/Welsh/Scottish academies again no restriction on nationality so eg Bale is Welsh but is classed as Association player so qualifies, same for us regarding Clichy he is French but came out of the Arsenal academy.

We don't have quotas on English born players.

Interesting.

 

[thenabster]

One of the things that I like about signing English players for City is that they rarely want to leave City. So if he's really good you'll get a steady player for the next 5-7 years.

 

[Mr. Aguia]

I am a HUGE proponent of having at least 1/3 of your squad being from the country of the league.

Developing homegrown talents is vital to success of the country, the economy and the league.

England will NEVER fix its NT issues if big teams dont start using more homegrown talent.

Of course, this is a very simplified explanation, but true.

Does EPL not have rules that require a certain number of homegrowns on a roster? Or "non-eu" purchase limits like Serie A for example?

Problem is they aren't good enough. England doesn't develope a large number of really talented players. Maybe you would rahter have a weakened team and have no shot at CL just to satisfy a nationalistic need but I'm not. I don't care what country a players from. I don't care what color he is. If he's good and not a douchbag I want him on the team.

 

[blinkblue]

Luke Shaw to replace Kolarov and Sam Byram to be the 4th CB would be perfect.

 

[BayernMan]

What happened to Micah Richards? I always liked him....