Doyley43":3kfeog3b said:
I believe the influx of foreign players has ruined everything including the national squad! Young lads are just not given the chance to progress due to the added competition.
I would love the Sky/TV bubble to burst and for the obscene money to dry up. I would rather football go back to the grass roots. We would then maybe see more youngsters given the chance at every level.
Good luck to Callum, I hope he makes it somewhere.
I would say the opposite, the influx of foreign players has vastly improved our game not ruined it. In a globalised world you get the best available product regardless of where it was born or developed. The English game imports some of the best talent from across the world making the end product far richer for ideas than it used to be. Foreign players with skills and techniques developed abroad, foreign managers who have developed tactics and philosophies from a multitude of footballing cultures. England has become a home for many of these approaches and our product as a spectator sport is considered one of the best in the world for it.
The issue really is the seemingly British refusal to set up shop elsewhere. Many foreign players are willing to travel here, there and everywhere just for an opportunity to prove themselves. That same drive isn't found on our shores, I think the expectation of English players that they have a right to play in this country holds them back. You look at the best footballing nations in the world and a large proportion of their players play abroad, many of which over here learning their trade in one of the most diverse football leagues in the world. It's this willingness to move that makes these players the stars they are. They didn't become superstars overnight, they found clubs abroad that would give them a chance to prove themselves, they found clubs who needed the skills they had that their own country didn't need, they met the demands of clubs so they could benefit from skills shortages elsewhere.
Until English players start taking risks to move abroad they will have to settle for not being footballers because unless you are an exceptional talent you simply cannot expect to compete. There is a world full of footballers out there, clubs have extended their horizons to meet it. English players need to do the same, they need to realise there is a world full of clubs out there; some don't pay as much as English clubs, some don't offer the same prestige in playing in the Premier League, some don't have the same TV spotlight as England but what all of them offer is an opportunity and sometimes that's all you need...