FIFA wants to impose 6+5 quota on football clubs
According to BBC, Sepp Blatter has declared that he wants to impose the “six plus five” rule on football clubs around the world. He believes that this would be a great way to balance the game which has now clearly been monopolized by the richest clubs. And I believe that this is the only thing Blatter has ever said that made sense.
The rule would require that each team to have 6 home grown players in their line-up and a maximum of five foreigners. The Swiss also said that he wants the rule to be in place by 2012. The target of this rule, he claims, is to level the playing field between associations and teams in the same association. BBC reports he said:
“As Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan recently said: ‘I can only start my season to fight to be fifth or sixth or seventh. It is impossible for me to go into the final four’.”
“At the end of the Champions League in Europe you have in the quarter-finals four teams of the same association (country); in the semi-finals three of these teams.
“Then in the final you are surprised that you have two teams of the same association? We want to bring some remedies and this is the six-plus-five rule’s objective.”
He further stated: “The executive committee unanimously supported the proposed resolution concerning the six-plus-five rule”
The rule could be put into place by 2012 should FIFA not be opposed by Europe’s clubs which have proven a stumbling block in the past for reforms that FIFA and UEFA tried to carry out.
[Source: BBC]
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The proposal by FIFA is DOA.
Such a rule would be in violation of EU labor policy regarding the free movement of workers and would be illegal if imposed by any football governing body.
If UEFA/Europe isn’t governed by such a rule, what would be the point? And if FIFA imposes penalties (e.g., bans on participation) on UEFA for failing to adopt such rules, international competitions would suffer significantly.
May 27th, 2008 @ 20:12Actually they are planning on making the rule completely legal and making sure that UEFA et al comply. It has been carefully planned.
May 27th, 2008 @ 20:34how would get make that rule legal, it would mean they would have to change the labour laws. I cant c it ever happening. Such a rule would surely spell the end of the epl so i can the the billionaire owners allowing so a rule to come in place. Anyway, blatter need to go, he is long past is expiration date. He is hell bent on destroying the beautiful game, just look at the offside rule, im not even sure referee understand it anymore.
May 27th, 2008 @ 21:22that should be cant c
May 27th, 2008 @ 21:24sorry, that should be ” cant see the billionaire”
May 27th, 2008 @ 21:28So to cut this down to what it it is, Blatter is pissed that the premier league gets bigger worldwide tv rights than the champions league? Blatter is a lame duck.
May 27th, 2008 @ 21:30No, because within the EPL there’s a very obvious heirarchy and the TV contracts just reinforce it. The top performing teams get considerably more money, which in turn, means they can afford to buy the best available talent. This leads to a stratefication of the league. Salary caps would to the same thing and would make the league a lot more exciting from year to year. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be little dynasties, but at least it will be the result of skill (manager and players) not pocketbooks.
May 27th, 2008 @ 21:59I don’t think this has to do much with the Premier League. I mean, look at the numbers the BBC published today: out of 494 Premier League starters this past season, 170 of them have been English. If you look at how many players actually came through the academy at their clubs, that number goes significanly down.
The Premier League clubs no longer produce their own players because they do not have the time. Rather they go after the almost-ripe products of other teams and hamper their development. Just imagine where West Ham would be right now if they had not sold most of their academy graduates: Joe Cole, Frank Lampard, Michael Carrick, Glenn Johnson. They would be much like Man Utd’s class of 92…
Bayern, I think that the way they plan to do it is to coerce all the clubs to sign contracts that they will follow sich a rule or suffer punishment… okay, maybe not completeley legal, but still…
Also, you should take note that this also applies to all other leagues, not just the PL.
May 27th, 2008 @ 22:05The aim of this proposal seems to be to control the spending of the big clubs and bring about a level playing field. Why then should there be a restriction based on the nationality of players? The restriction should be on the amount of money spent on the tranfer markets or a salary cap. Even if the nationality of players is restricted the top 4 teams can still buy the most expensive home talents whereas the rest won’t be able to afford them. How about having a rule instead that says you should have 6 or however many players who have graduated from your youth academy(could be foreigners) in the starting line up and the rest outsiders so the restriction is not based on nationality but on the amount of outside players you have bought.
May 27th, 2008 @ 23:32Blatter will say anything and everything to justify what he wants to happen.
For more, read this:
http://soccerlens.com/a-tale-of-two-men/6408/
May 28th, 2008 @ 00:35i think blatter has got it all wrong. if this was implemented than the big clubs will buy all the good national players and there league wiil not change that much.
May 28th, 2008 @ 02:10the policy will also not end the dominance of english teams. maybe only arsenal will struggle but manu,chelsea,liverpool will stiil make it
May 28th, 2008 @ 02:12that’s why there really should be a salary cap. Let the talent come from where ever, but limit what the clubs can spend. It has worked really well for the NFL here in the states. The result is a much more interesting league year in, year out. I’m no fan of the NFL, but I like the way that they’ve managed the league. Implementing a salary cap could prove to be a bit difficult in Europe, but it’s not impossible.
May 28th, 2008 @ 05:28i think its a great rule…. i live in australia and the football league here as well as the rugby league here all have salary caps 2 prevent richer teams from having an advantage over evry1 else… this makes 4 an exciting year evry year as u nevr no who is going 2 win… the team that came last last year is now up the top of the table and u can expect stuff like that 2 happen evry year….
May 28th, 2008 @ 08:32the salary cap will be a lot like the 6+5 rule which will help level the playing field, even though richer teams will still be able 2 buy better players, just not as many of tehm will be foreign
Not gonna happen. Like lots of people said, it goes against EU labour laws and all those countries are bound by them, so not even the UK can get out of it.
The problem isn’t foreign players, the problem is English players. If they weren’t good enough before, what makes them think they’ll be good enough afterwards? I just saw some statistics that West Ham host the most English players every game and wow, it got them 10th place.
And smaller clubs will still be at a disadvantage because the bigger clubs (including Arsenal) can still afford to buy up English talent, you know, when prices go up sky-high if this stupid law is ever imposed.
May 28th, 2008 @ 13:32It’s supposed to be a 4+7 in 2010, then 5+6 in 2011, before reaching the goal of 6+5 in 2012. I’d be really interested to see how Blatter can work around EU’s laws to make this plan legal. Also, I know that this season’s English champions have enough English players to qualify for this scheme. What about the other league champions? I don’t get much football broadcasted in my area so I can’t follow the other European leagues.
May 28th, 2008 @ 14:00Blatter need to get a clue. World football has become more competetive since this sort of thing has happened because countries like my own Jamaica now have players playing at the highest level. The likes of greece has been able to win the euros. If blatter really cared about the great game he would not be looking to put rules in place that would take us back 100 years. The problem with english players is that the english FA isn’t doing there jobs properly. Clubs would always prefer to buy good local talent than foreigner because they would generally be cheaper, more attractive to local fans, and they would be familiar with the sorrounding. England isnt producing any talent so they suffer. Spain, Italy, Frace, Germany,and Holland are all still producing quality youngersters even though the amount of foreigners is going in those leagues as well.
May 28th, 2008 @ 15:16England doesnt even produce proper coaches, if u look at coaching academies in england and those in italy u would realise that england is a joke. These coaches are the ones training young players so its it any wonder that the talent isnt coming through. The English FA needs to get off there asses and start doing some work.
May 28th, 2008 @ 15:22The thing is that I have trouble thinking of more than two teams [Inter and Arsenal] that would be affected by this rule. We all know that the teams with the most foreigners are the best ones, mid-table teams and below generally have homegrown talent.
The problem with this is that it means that mediocre players like Wes Brown will go up in value and the value of good players like Gareth Barry and David Bentley will rocket.
I agree that some teams take it too far but this rule isn’t the solution. Also, this doesn’t say anything about substitutions. What happens if your English striker, your English defender and your English goalie get injured but on the bench you’ve got an English goalie, an English striker and three foreign players. What do you do? It’s impractical. I think that maybe you should limit, if anything, the number of players in the squad [team + bench] to 7 foreigners or 8 if they make the benches bigger as proposed. That way there is some more space to maneuver.
Also, it seems that the F.A is taking some initiatives to improve the standards of youth facilities and, though overemphasised, it sounds like a good idea.
The thing is; if I’m better than you why should you get the job instead of me? It sort of reminds me of when Americans say Mexicans steal their jobs, well, son, if a Mexican can do your job better than you and for less money then who are you to say he shouldn’t have it?
The English area already lazy and overpaid and overvalued this would only make them more so. If players know that they’ve got a higher chance of playing than foreigners they’re going to work less than if they had to compete for their place.
In the restaurant near my house 8/10 of the cooks are Italian, I know this because I talk to them, and nobody comes up and says no, only 5 of you can be Italian.
So why should it be different in football?
May 28th, 2008 @ 15:46yep jus reminds me of immigrants stealing good american jobs!
May 28th, 2008 @ 23:05Would this really level the playing field? It would just make money more involved in football. Spanish teams will pay 200millions for a good spanish player and same for every other country. I think a quota of 3 would be perfect because then English players are getting opportunities and 28/24 English players would be playing European football!!
May 29th, 2008 @ 09:36sorry its 27/24
although the intertoto cup isnt europe is it
May 29th, 2008 @ 09:37Would just make English players even more expensive, even more hyped, and ultimately just as poor.
It Won’t make the slightest difference to how well the NT perform. The league was full of British/English players in the 70, 80s and 90s and what did England win then?
Of course i would like to see more homegrown players in my team, but if you’re asking me to pick between Lee Trundle and Samuel Eto’o i’d have to plump for the dirty foreigner to come over and steal Lee’s job!!
Seriously though, the solution is simple: we have 7 players on the bench next season. if 3 of them HAD to be home grown that would help young players in this country get the game time they need to improve.
May 29th, 2008 @ 12:13It seems like everyone is getting confused between the FIFA and UEFA proposals which, while very similar, are also very different. Now I can’t remember which is which, but one says that a certain number of players (of any nationality) must have been trained at your club between 15 and 21. The other says you have to field 6 home playes. The first is legal, the second isn’t.
It seems to me like pointless posturing that will have a detrimental effect on all leagues.
May 29th, 2008 @ 15:31Well if he say that Kevin Keegan said that he could only fight for fifth or sixth then when this rule applies all the big clubs will buy the english players like owen to arsenal or liverpool also Bently won’t be at Blackburn so i think this is tupid to make the 5+6 rule we don’ want a second hand league.What will happen to arsenal and liverpool?? if this rule is applied.Im sure Eu will reject this proposal
May 30th, 2008 @ 20:47I will throw out something that I think might happen if this rule is implemented…say i was an owner, what would stop me from going to brazil,spain, or italy and finding good teenage talent and then work with immigration and have them become english citizens. That way i can get good, cheap foreign talent that would only benefit my team and not really hurt even if they dont pan out and become good players because they would be cheaper to buy than over-priced “by-born” englishmen.
July 22nd, 2008 @ 05:42