This week i was watching inter milan and again their lineup showed barely a italian player. Is this is whot the fans want or do they want to go back and see the majority of their players being italian. i know thanks to bosman, it will not happen but i would like to see the 3 foreign player rule brought in again.
Yes, I think teams now have too many overseas players. Yet given international trading standards and the vast amounts of money being pumped into football, how can this trend be reversed without engaging in a huge legal battle? Or maybe a huge legal battle is what it takes.
Just a quick footnote: Teams generally do better with a contingency of domestic players.
Personally, I don't care about the number of foreigners. Teams should be free to assemble the best squad they can, regardless of the nationality of the players.
well i for one am really fed up with it. how can you relate to your team when it is full of foreigners! I want to see italians playing for italian clubs and i also think the majority of fans feel this way. i am fed up with the mercenaries who pretend to kiss the shirt and in a month or two leave. I want to see players like maldini etc again, giving their all for one club and the club in return giving their all to the player so a mutual loyalty is produced, this i think is whot the fans want too. fans will always remember loyal players before the mercenaries.
I agree. It's not healthy to have many foreign players in a team. It upset the European balance of power. Now, the elites of the big fooball countries like Holland, Portugal, France ,Czech,always fly to Italy,Spain,England.... so there are many super teams appear in those countries like Milan, Barca, Chelsea. the teams like Benfica and PSV are hard to compare with them. thus, it forms a situation that the super team monopolize the Champion League. So it should let the mto stay in their own country to improve their quarlity
Originally posted by leccese tifoso: well i for one am really fed up with it. how can you relate to your team when it is full of foreigners! I want to see italians playing for italian clubs and i also think the majority of fans feel this way. i am fed up with the mercenaries who pretend to kiss the shirt and in a month or two leave. I want to see players like maldini etc again, giving their all for one club and the club in return giving their all to the player so a mutual loyalty is produced, this i think is whot the fans want too. fans will always remember loyal players before the mercenaries.
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when they win something.
Maybe you should've done what most southerners do - support Juve!
I dont really care about the amount of foreigners in football. They are usually brought in because domestic players are so hideously overpriced anyway.
Originally posted by leccese tifoso: well i for one am really fed up with it. how can you relate to your team when it is full of foreigners! I want to see italians playing for italian clubs and i also think the majority of fans feel this way. i am fed up with the mercenaries who pretend to kiss the shirt and in a month or two leave. I want to see players like maldini etc again, giving their all for one club and the club in return giving their all to the player so a mutual loyalty is produced, this i think is whot the fans want too. fans will always remember loyal players before the mercenaries.
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when they win something.
Maybe you should've done what most southerners do - support Juve!
Juve have paid the price of cheating so why dont you and others leave them alone. the argument here is about foreign players so why bring up southern italians. are you anti southern italian
Chairmen don't care where the players come from as long as they do the job on the pitch and will therefore continue buying foreign players, since domestic players are so obscenely overpriced, Carrick, Ashton, Glen Johnson et al.
Originally posted by MICHAEL_LA_VIOLA: Personally, I don't care about the number of foreigners. Teams should be free to assemble the best squad they can, regardless of the nationality of the players.
While it is obviously a necessity of the modern game to have a team probably mostly made up of foreigners (just try to play Champ Man and build a homegrown team), often due to overpricing, as someone pointed out above, I do prefer it when teams play with the character of their own country.
And this can pretty much only be done with a team of mostly homegrown players. It make European games more interesting when there is a clash of styles. Ironically most teams now play like Italian teams in Europe.
Originally posted by Duncan!: More domestic players on their clubs please. Arsenal with no Englishman? Inter with no Italians?
And they wonder why attendances are decreasing
Again i agree with you clubs with hardly any domestic players in them, who can realte to that! i want to see clubs with more domestic players full stop ! its time clubs listened to the fans afterall its us they entertain
If you can get a vastly superior, more experienced foreign import for cheaper than a young home grown player who hasnt been tested then its common sense that you will go for the former.
Originally posted by mrsnrub: If you can get a vastly superior, more experienced foreign import for cheaper than a young home grown player who hasnt been tested then its common sense that you will go for the former.
yes, inter milan do this and look at them, i believe the coach is naw facing the axe dam mercenaries
I agree it would be good if there where more English players or Italians in their club teams, but like mrsnrub says it's too expensive to buy domestic talent. That'll need to be sorted out first and foremost if you want to change the situation.
I don't think you need a team full of English players or Italians to be successful to be honest. It's a cliche but if you've got a spine or key players then I reckon that helps a lot though - John Terry and Frank LampPost and Tony Adams when he was at the Gooners
"yes, inter milan do this and look at them, i believe the coach is naw facing the axe dam mercenaries"
Well it's not like Inter don't have the dosh to bring in Italian talent - Mancini has chosen most of those players, although you never know in Italy! The cleaners probably chose Ascoli's left back. I think Mancini's downfall won't be merc players it'll be bad management (tactical and man) whether they're Italians or not
Originally posted by Shaker Beads: I agree it would be good if there where more English players or Italians in their club teams, but like mrsnrub says it's too expensive to buy domestic talent. That'll need to be sorted out first and foremost if you want to change the situation.
I don't think you need a team full of English players or Italians to be successful to be honest. It's a cliche but if you've got a spine or key players then I reckon that helps a lot though - John Terry and Frank LampPost and Tony Adams when he was at the Gooners
"yes, inter milan do this and look at them, i believe the coach is naw facing the axe dam mercenaries"
Well it's not like Inter don't have the dosh to bring in Italian talent - Mancini has chosen most of those players, although you never know in Italy! The cleaners probably chose Ascoli's left back. I think Mancini's downfall won't be merc players it'll be bad management (tactical and man) whether they're Italians or not
its ok, i have just chilled out he he
