I think Blatter has been feeling upstaged with Platinis 'away with the fairies' ideas about European football and has come up with his own. Seemingly footballers are not workers or employees they are 'artisis' and he is trying to contravene EU law on this basis to restrict players movement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/football_focus/7028310.stm Am I the only one who thinks Blatter should just concentrate on eating pies?
well, that rule was in a few years back. Dont think anything will come of it, to be honest Just a thought, how dear would the british players be then?????
Who knows, but are Irish, Scotish and Welsh players classed as foreigners? If they are can you see any premier league side taking Irish players on if they can only have 5 foreigners, they will go to the continent. I wouldnt write it off too lightly though you'll find the top sides being against everyone outside the top divisions in the countrys being for it.
irish scots welsh were all classed as brittish players years ago that rule he wants to bring in would push up the price of every home grown player to stupid levels though it would be nice to see a couple of local lads come up through the ranks and given more of a chance
Stupid levels is right like the £33.3m manure paid for Ferdinand ,no wait, the rule wasnt in then, that was just red nose having had too much vino!
Irish players were classed as foreign back then,its one of the reasons Souness gave at the time for selling a couple of Irish lads.I also remember reading that Steve Bruce would have declared for Ireland but this rule meant he would have been classed as a foreigner. If this came in again it would have huge ramification's for Irish players.
Our players would be screwed basically because no premiership side would take on someone from Ireland, they will have to come up through the lower divisions and really prove themselves to be bought ahead of spanish, italian, german players etc., It would be the ROI national team will be like the NI one with all Chamionship and lower players.
might not be a bad thing, look at chelski and the arse nearly all foreigners this is what english footie needs less useless foreigners and more homegrown talent,,the only thing is ireland should not be considered foreign so our young players have the chance to play for the big clubs in england
When there was a limit of 3 foreign players in European competition in the early nineties, it meant that not even Welsh or Scottish players could play for an English team (and obviously the Irish)
Its against EU rules, he must be bored and trying to get his name in the paper. It would be like saying to a resturaunt owner 50% of ur waiting staff have to be Irish and any1 who's been out for a meal recently knows you'd be lucky to get 5% of the waiting staff Irish. Euorpe is just 1 big country now guys!
not that i think it will happen but is this only for the first team or would it carry down the ranks? On both accounts it’s bad news for the irish and everyone
The lad is off his rocker if he thinks he can bring this law in. There's no doubt he can bring new regulations into football, but not when it contradicts EU law. He'd want to watch himself cos he'd only provoke the EU to push through a law allowing footballers to give a few weeks notice allowing them to leave their club instead of having to see out their contract, like most of us can do with our non football-playing jobs.
This would be impossible to transpose into national legislation, and anyways, each M/S has a certain amount of time to adopt the Reg/Directive, which is a good number of years... I think the outcome would end in an exploitation of the UK's passport system...many questions would be raised too, as it would be a prohibition of free movement of workers guaranteed by the EU treaty...
In fairness to chelsea they have a lot of british players in there squad, Arsenal have only Walcott and Hoyte