English Core

Just Read the comments from Football Association Chairman Greg Dyke. The following is the extract.

On Tuesday, the FA sent out its first draft of proposals to reduce the number of non-EU players within English football by up to 50%.

“The present system is chaotic,” Dyke told BBC Sport.

“There are mediocre players that come and take squad places – those could be filled by young English players.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29239932

The idea proposed is to replace the Foreign mediocre players with Overrated English players. Not a bright idea. English premier league is not the only way to improve the local English Talent. It should start at youth levels. Here are few more ideas to reduce the foreign imports.

LOL ways to increase English talent and reduce imports

Popularity

Why does everyone wants to play in the English Premier League? EPL is one of the most popular league in the world. It is the dream of most football players to play in the EPL. The first step is to divert this dream. Reduce the popularity of the EPL, this would automatically force non-EU players to dream about other leagues.

Broadcast

EPL is being broadcasted throughout the world. Even the remote parts of India and Africa are able to watch the live broadcast of English Premier League. Also there is a huge fan following for the major EPL clubs in Asia, Africa and other countries. If FA ban the broadcast of these matches to Non-EU countries then any professional or small boys would not want to play for the Premier League. 50% ban on live telecast of matches would automatically reduce the number of foreign imports.

English Players in Club Team

Force Every manager in the EPL to play the boring Roy Hodgson way. This would enable the English players to play their usual game for both England and the Club. Make it compulsory for EPL teams to play the English International players in every game.

Ban the Scouting Network

Ban all the clubs from scouting players around the world. Since only Elite players are welcomed in England, there is no point of scouting. Elite players can be easily selected from World cup and Euro Qualifiers.

Salaries and Transfer Fee

Why are the clubs looking for Foreign talents? Andy Carroll costs around 35 million pounds where as Fabregas costs only 28 Million. Public announcement should be made that no English player is worth more than 10 Million Pounds. This would stop clubs from buying players cheap.

Salary Cap and Regional Players

Players are attracted towards money and keep changing clubs. Career of many players like Jack Rodwell goes downhill once they move to big clubs. There should be a rule for players to play for their local team only. London Players should play for London Clubs only. Manchester Players should play for Manchester Clubs only. This would stop players like Danny Welbeck being replaced by foreigner Falcao.

Foreign Owners

Most of the EPL clubs are owned by foreign investors and sponsored by foreign brands. FA should reject all the money from these owners and sponsors. Around 50% reduction of Foreign money should be an ideal start to encourage local investors and players. Local investors will care about their club and players.

Strip the EPL title from Manchester City

Current EPL champions Manchester city had only Joe Hart in their starting line up. Liverpool had more English Players than Manchester city. Strip the title from Manchester city and make Liverpool the champions of English Premier League.

Reject World Cup and Euro

If none of the ideas work there are more than one way to win the world cup. Reject the Existing world cup by FIFA. Start a New world cup. Replace the Euro with UK and World cup with Common Wealth. This would increase the chance of England winning a CUP.

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Danny Welbeck had the option of choosing either Ghana or England as his international football home. Had he chose Ghana instead, would we be still excited about his signing?

Here is an alternative view from a Fan.

Andy’s Response to our post ” English Core : Are they just poster boys? “

The English core are not just poster boys. They are the sign that either we have finally got lucky or the Academy/scouting structure in the UK is working. We have discarded so many English prospects over the years and these kids are the ones that made it through. A large part of the problem is that Arsenal is one of the few top (English) clubs left that believes in developing players. Most clubs prefers finished article at an expense.

Moment worthy of so many posters.

1) The reason we see so many players built up and then failing is because at Arsenal they get game time as teenagers, so the fans get invested in them. where as at other clubs such prospects are cut without ever seeing the first team.

2) It isn’t just an English thing, Cesc is the classic example of Arsenal bringing through a young player and it worked out well. Thomas Eisfeld the opposite – a German kid sold when he was thought to be on his way to the first team.

3) Bayern and Barcelona underlines the problems we have in EPL when developing players. With our squad rules, a player has until 21, maybe 22 to prove himself at a side like Arsenal. At that point you have to loan or sell, which usually ends in the latter. Most players don’t hit their potential until they are 23-24 at least, so we are throwing away players who could have made it given more time. Both German and Spanish leagues allow for B teams, which gives them a place to continue to develop their young players until they are ready for the big time. It puts less pressure on them to produce their talent quickly.

As to the rest of the English sides mentioned. All have gone down the buy-it-now route. City and Chelsea do not seem to be either producing or (more realistically) trust the youngsters they have. Remember Jack Rodwell?

United used to work like us, but something has gone horribly wrong there (shame) and they have taken the similar path.

Its not always down to the club. The player too has their own responsibilities.They have to make smart moves. At 23 Sturridge was frozen out at Chelsea. At 32m Costa looks like a shiny upgrade, but his league scoring record is similar to that of Sturridge in last two years. Had they kept Sturridge, they would have had their own home grown Costa at no expense. Its the same case with ManU, First they bought RVP and now Falcao.

On Wenger: The 1997 double side was mostly English. He did not build that side, but built on that English core rather than tearing it down. Even with the Invincibles: for every Viera, there was a Sol.

Lastly on poster boys, the English players might be used a bit to gain empathy with the core fan base. Sometimes the Language barrier restricts the use of all players. Arteta and Per (Captain and Vice) were involved on lot of stuffs, their recent rainbow laces thing shows just how the entire squad is used. Amusing to see how self aware the non-English players about their image amongst the fans.

Had LVG & Jose Morinho had time at their disposal may be they would have kept Lukaku and Welbeck in their squad.