bluechampion7891
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JollyGood said:Bayern has 12 German players in the squad, which is the necessary minimum according to the rules. The Bundesliga introduced a quota, which says that 12 Germans have to be in every 25 man squad. Revamping the youth development was only the first step, it wouldn't have worked as well as it did if the German FA didn't come up with additional rules that force the clubs to further develop the talents and increase the chance of playing time in the first teams. And of course, the DFL (German football league, basically Bundesliga 1 & 2) was against it at first, just like many clubs.CityFan94 said:Bayern is full of German players because they're good enough, not simply because they're German. Focus on developing good enough English players and they'll play, it really is that simple.
One without the other doesn't make a lot of sense of course, but you need a quota like that or else clubs will always go the easy way of buying foreign talents instead and any work done at the grassroutes will just become meaningless. German clubs aren't smarter than English clubs, most of them would never have invested so much money and time into their academies if they weren't forced to do it through rules.
are you sure there are any quotas in germany at all? from what I know, they dont have any limitation to squad size or quotas at all