Foreign players: Good for the Premiership, bad for England?

it is futile to discuss limitations, if legally they cannot be upheld..at least non EU players do have to fulfil certain criteria apart from kicking a ball in order to obtain a work permit...in germany this is not so. with the result that partcularly in the second and third tier we are inundated with second rate, afrcians, eastern europeans etc etc.... in the epl, the richest league in the world most foreigners are world class players ,from which english players can only learn...would JT be as good as he is now if he hadnt trained with Marcel Desailly?? the reason the national team is underperforming is entirely due to crap managers...if germany and enngland had swapped managers last summer, england would have won the cup and we would gone out in round 1n

Are the 40% who are English not the cream of the crop? Wouldn't they be in the Prem even if no foreigners (or Scots, Welsh, Irish) were allowed? Don't they make up a larger pool than McLaren can use? Of course. So...are they benefited by playing against the best, yet staying at home? Of course. Can this be changed? No, not unless the owners of the clubs want to give up their new-found TV money. The increased wealth of the EPL is due to its high quality and excitement, which the foreign players like Robbie Keane and Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs contribute to. As for players who cannot crack the 40%, one might ask if there is something in the culture -- as there is in Italy, perhaps -- that encourages them to play in an inferior league rather than try their hand at matters in a top-flight league on the Continent? Perhaps if they sought to play in more competitive climes than the Championship, they would improve more?

Foreign players? Scholes? Umm...

italy has avery special culture..they just dont want to leave and lets face who can blame them its a beautiful country with great life style...italy was the only country along saudi arabia, which didnt have one single overseas player in their squad at the world cup.... the same will happen here...english players do NOT have to play abroad anymore to make money... even second tier clubs in england pay more than top clubs in the bundesliga for example...look at berbatoiv moving from leverkusen to spurs, boith clubs are comparable, the epl is better league...none of this should have any effect on the national team..its donw to the managers and they have been crap since robson(possibly with theexception of venables)..

(1) Foreign players have raised the level and technique of football in our league. (2) Our players have improved due to the bar being raised by the foreign players - they are almsot cetainly better than they would have been if foriegn players hadn´t come into our league. (3) The gamesmanship side in our league unfortunately has got worse due to the foriegn players manner of playing football. (4) Were Englands performances better on the international stage, say 20 years ago before the real influx of foreign players into our league happened? I don´t think so. (5) If we want more domestic players in our league then their prices will have to drop - you can sign a foreign equivalent of an english player for half the price and in the case of scandinacvian players even less.

England sucks!

Where has our national pride gone? We no longer manufacture anything in this Country and we can't even play football! Having so many foreigners cannot be good for the Nation's favourite game. And it's not just players. The number of foreign owners of clubs and foreign managers is ridiculous. It's all about money. Presumably television can sell more games overseas when they have overseas players. I'm sticking to non-league. If every supporter of the big clubs who won't use British players refused to go to games things would soon change.