What do you think about Arsenal having only 1 English player in the team?

Question

They only have 1 English player (Theo Walcott). I think there should be a limit ot how many foreign players you can have.

They may be good but this is the english legue not a french or foreign league.

Answer 1

arsenal are just allso runs

Answer 2

It's a sad fact of the modern game that foreign players will impose themselves on the Premiership. The EU has meant that buying players from overseas has made it easier than ever before. The sucess of the Premiership over it's 15 year history has also ment that many foreign players wish to play in such a prestigous league.

It is the fault of many people, the EU for making it easier for people to work around Europe, foreign managers preferring overseas players to home-grown talent and clubs for bringing in foreign managers.

Having said that, there is still a core of English managers withn the Premiership (Allardyce, Pardew, Moyes, Pearce, Southgate Roeder, Redknapp, Coppell, Warnock, Bothroyd, Curbishley and Jewell), with another 4 managers coming from the British Isles.


A limit could be imposed, but it would be to the detriment of the game in England. The other problem is at what level does the limit come into force. Must there be a certain number of English players on the pitch, in the 16 or just available for selection. The first two would limit the tactical options a manager has, while the latter would simply be avoided by clubs signing young players who will not make the Premiership stage.

P.S. Justin Hoyte scored for Arsenal over Christmas, the first Englishman to do so since Sept 2005 (Sol Campbell)

Answer 3

In business when you have a protectionist system like that (i.e. enacting tariffs on foreign goods or limiting the amount of foreign goods that can be sold in your country) what almost always happens is that your country's good become less competitive on the world market because they aren't under as much pressure to improve. The same thing would happen with the EPL if teams were limited to having a minimum number of English players. The EPL teams would get worse, the English players would get worse, and the English national side would suffer. I'm sure you wouldn't want that! Leaving it to a free market system is better all around.

Answer 4

Or having gamers interior the Italian, Spanish,... leagues. seem at Spain, Torres scored all the finding out aims interior the Euro 2008. And the position does he play? They get journey on the optimal factor by technique of taking section in interior the Champions' League, that is the important reason. i'm conversing of the tremendous 4, not the entire preferable League. seem at Italy, that is the same difficulty. They were given no gamers in Inter, 2 in AC Milan, some interior the Juventus (they'd fairly some extra 4 years), and they are already declining. Btw the same questioning got here about in hockey 15 years in the past, and the international locations who eager to reduce the type of foreigners of their championships are literally prior to those who did not placed any limits. that is why i'm very confident in my view... You gotta discover the right percentage between foreigners and English so the league stay at a extreme factor yet you've sufficient English gamers at each and each position.

Answer 5

I agree with Dan O. Without some of the foreign players England has now or had in the past, the Premiership would not be what it is today, which I'd consider the best league in the world. So many international's strive to play in the English league. I mean, that is something we should want right? Some of the best players in the world wanting to play in England? I can't say that is something I would not want. The Premiership has the reputation of being the best and having the best, and I think it should stay that way.

Answer 6

As a youngster in London, I used to support Arsenal. I am quite shocked to hear that fact. Time was that the members of a football team had to live in the area where their team was based. So if you played for Arsenal you could not be living in Liverpool etc. This caused great personal rivalry amongst the teams and encouraged the supporters. The present system is all about money, sport comes second.

Answer 7

FYI ARSENALhave 2 english players makeing regular apperances - theo walcott and justin hoyte theirs also kerrea gilbert who made quite a few apperances last season but has been out through injury and playing in the reserves and a whole host of english players in the reserves who are fightig their way into the first team.

Answer 8

I think it's a shame that an English club has to fill it's ranks with foreign players but i think that it's sign of how clubs have neglected to invest in young players in the past.
I am a Spurs fan so this is obviously one thing that we can have a go at the Gooners for but i'd trade a couple of our english players for half the success they have had over the last 10 years.
They're not the only club in the premiership with the majority of players being non-british but they are the worst offenders

Answer 9

Yes I think there should be a limit on the amount of foreign players so that more talent can be brought up through the English training.

Isn't Chelsea worse than Arsenal with no English players? (Not sure if that's correct)

Answer 10

Until the time comes that winning is not everything, this will become more and more common. At least Man U keep a core of English players, and even Chelsea. We will never see the likes of the Lisbon Lions again, the Celtic European cup winners all born within 20 mles of the ground!!

Answer 11

They have lots of English players that have gone elsewhere in the premiership and championship leagues that weren't quite good enough. Why should we have English just for the sake of it? All our players are world class, we can't afford the likes Gerrard Rooney etc, so should we have the like of Dawson who's not as good as our defenders just because he's English? don't think so. At the end of the day if a players good enough he'll get into the squad regardless of his nationallity, other teams in the premiership have English players that cost twice as much as the players at AFC and they aren't as good, so should we lower our standards just to please a few. If this was practiced anywhere else it would be called racist. Imagine saying to your boss " I'm not happy because I'm the only English person working here?" you couldn't ! don't see why footballs different.