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Originally posted by Dan_
There needs to be a limit on how many foreign players that each team can have in their team because it's just getting silly with teams even having youth teams full of kids signed from mainly Africa and South America and then you get kids from this country not even getting a chance to play in top youth teams, how can that be right?
Fair enough we get some great players from abroad like Henry, Christiano Ronaldo and Didier Drogba but you also get some terrible players and it just leaves me bemused as you see some really talented lower league players not getting the chance but some fancy named numpty from France who turns out to be rubbish like Bernard Diomede playing instead of these English players.Also these South American kids that are coming in are not doing themselves much good either like Gabriel Paletta of Liverpool, he's come across at about 19 and seemed like a deer caught in the headlights whenever he plays and gave an awful performance against Arsenal in the carling cup and that'll dent his confidence big time and I feel players like him should be fully established in their own countries before they get snapped up by our big clubs, they just rot in the reserves much of the time after being signed on the back of playing well in some youth world cup.
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yeah i pretty much agree with that... there is a rotten side of all that ..
but i think theres more to it, that the fans dont normally dont talk about when it comes to these issues. Such as the business side of it.
The more foren players you get the more fans all over the world. I were watching Al Jazeera English the other day, there was a football programme on; and People from all over the world got to phone in and talk about the premiership. Nearer the end of each caller, the presenter would ask the caller "why do you watch the Premiership?". And the caller would say becuase Martins (who is nigerian) from Newcastle plays there. And the caller was all the way from Nigeria.
At the end of the day of your good enough, you'll play no matter who your are, thats what i believe anyway.