Home grown players

[claw84]

Andoverpfc asked on another post was Lee Gregory(Lions) another Jamie Vardy,no I don't think he is that good but he has scored 5 goals in his last 2 games, he cost £250,000 from non league Halifax so it just goes to show that there are some gems out there in the lower leagues. We have been guilty in bringing in too many foreign players while good British players are warming the bench. Last week Millwall signed a 17 yr old player from Ar@nal for free.because he knew he would not get a game in their foreign dominated team. Harry Kane also played for the Lions on loan until Spurs woke up to his talent.

It's not just England but Scotland as well I believe have too many foreign players, for example Lee Griffiths was spending his time in Wolves reserves until he went back to Scotland, and what a breath of fresh air he turned out to be. The Scots had amazing players in the 60's,70's,80's but where are they now.

So we have to look out for those rough diamonds and put a polish on them, it

[Pentridge]

Our academy is quite good tbf.

[Buc]

Not sure if your academy is that good its been around for some time now .. The EPL should be concentrating on home grown players as I think that's the way forward the rewards of that would be a European champians winning England team come time SKY money and now BT won't allow that though ..The EPL needs to limit the amount of foreign players playing to 3 or 4 per team ..
Won't happen though .. Players play for teams now not for the love of the club but for the love of money.

[Pentridge]

Danny Wallace
Alan. Shearer
Matt Le Tissier
Rod Wallace
Andrew Surman
Adam Lallana
Theo Walcott
Alex Oxlade- Chamberlain
Callum Chambers
Luke Shaw
Morgan Scneiderlin


And some bloke called Gareth Bale.

[Buc]

Danny Wallace
Alan. Shearer
Matt Le Tissier
Rod Wallace
Andrew Surman
Adam Lallana
Theo Walcott
Alex Oxlade- Chamberlain
Callum Chambers
Luke Shaw
Morgan Scneiderlin


And some bloke called Gareth Bale.

Pents that's some list,
But we are speaking about meeting them no seeing them play..

[claw84]

The trouble is Pents you could not keep most of that list......and now I see manure are sniffing around your striker Mane for about £20 mill,still that should give you profit of 10 mill.

[Pentridge]

Too true, we're just not big enough to stave of the top teams. Certain players we had to sell (Walcott, Surman and Bale) for finacial reasons because we were about to go to the wall. Others like Shearer and the Wallaces because bigger teams came in for them when a an couple of mill was BIG money and we were very much a selling club. More recently players (Shaw, Morgan, Chambers and. Oxlade-Chamberlain*) have gone because of the vast profit we could make on them and we still had loans etc to pay. I'd like to think we can hold onto more players but I can't see it happening.

MLT stayed though and he was the best of the lot.

* 20 odd games in the third tier and sold for £15m, £10m of that up front for instance,.

[AndoverPFC]

So the fact that Morgan Schneiderlin came through the youth ranks at Strasbourg and played for their 1st team doesn't count?