Comments on: How the 6+5 rule would affect Chelsea

By: Vivian

Vivian — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:34:34 +0000

Dutch man you said it dude. I’ve been telling people I have no EMPATHY for all 11 foreign players club. Where’s national identity??? Wake up!! For me ENGLAND COMES FIRST!!

By: Dutchman

Dutchman — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:40:09 +0000

You guys only see it from the Englisch perspective. For example. I’m from Rotterdam. Our club Feyenoord has the best Youth Football Academy of Holland these days. But just when our players are ready to make the jump to the first squad, Arsenal, Chelsea or Liverpool drops by, and buy the talent. All clubs who are not able to create great talents of their own. It’s a damn shame and they destroy competitions like our own, or the ones of France & Portugal.

Besides, in a few years there will be nothing left of the English national team. Who’s gonna play for England, when all English players are banned from de EPL by Dutch, African, France, Portugees players? The EPL is ruled by foreigners, so why call it ENGLISH PL anymore?

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:28:51 +0000

This is just a cynnical attempt by the whingers like Hoeness and Rummenigge at Bayern and the other old guard Euro giants to bring British clubs down to their level rather than strive to compete with them.Did’nt hear too much whinging from them 10 years ago when they were on top. It’s history repeating itself, in the 80′s they used Heysel to stop English teams winning the European Cup every year, now they are using this crap.I believe Mr Platini played for Juventus.

By: Stiju

Stiju — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:12:06 +0000

Chelsea have Jack Cork at loan
and ryan Bartyard too

there are players who play in championship week in week out.

By: Troy Palmer

Troy Palmer — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:54:40 +0000

Yes, that is the point. FIFA turned a blind eye when Italy and Spain ruled the world with foriegners. I think there is a bit of England hating with FIFA, particulary with Blatter, and definitely with Platini. He’s always whingeing about how terrible England is. In fact, get rid of the man. Or he needs to get with the times and stop dogging down England.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:14:21 +0000

Kenneth: Yes, you are correct, it would weaken the product like watering down coca cola. Would this be accepted on a world-wide basis? Or is it FIFA’s/UEFA’s attempt to bring the PL down to a level more with the other leagues?

When I see players like Tim Howard, Tim Cahill, Dirk Kuyt, Michael Ballack, Owen Heargreaves playing, in today’s world, they aren’t exactly citizens of the UK but it does seem like they are from the same neighbourhood.

This rule is brought up but I can’t see it working.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:02:45 +0000

Kenneth, I think you are on to something. In a nutshell, I don’t think the EC or UEFA may be able to regulate free-market capitalism and the commercial success of the Premier League.

Who is more powerful? I think the 6+5 rule is a pipe dream.

Also, who is FIFA to tell people how the game is to be played in basically, the home of the game itself?? I see lots of Brits playing in the Premier League, with the big 4, to an extent, they are trying to build the best teams in the world and the Champions League successes are proving this, therefore, they do have a good share of foreigners, however as a whole and looking at other squads, I don’t see the same ratios.

Where was FIFA when Real Madrid has had Puskas, Di Stefano, Zidane or AC Milan has had Weah, Marco Van Basten or Kaka. These names are game changers, these teams won with players who were at times, the single best player in the world. Is this with the EPL so different?

Is the FIFA game the standard of Football? The ideal? Is the World Cup ideal known for it’s feigning of injuries, diving, taunts, nationalism, hand-balls and many scandals through out it’s history? And a tournament that is only played every four years and for a large part of it’s history, did not even have countries from Africa and Asia playing? Are these scenes such as diving or feigning injury really seen in the EPL? Largely No.

It’s a pipe dream I’d think. It could easily be an action that would face court challenges and could go in all kinds of directions including the Court of Arbitration of Sport and even the PL refusing to abide.

Interestingly, a last side note, I was reading a biography on Maradona and it seemed when he first signed for Barcelona cerca 1983, they had some sort of rule of only allowing 2 foreigners on the pitch for each team.

Looking at Chelsea, what is the effect? Disallowing a handful of Africans to play? As far as that goes, that would not be popular either.

By: Kenneth Chukwu

Kenneth Chukwu — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:07:32 +0000

This idea will weaken English football which has attracted many soccer fans.

By: kenneth

kenneth — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:58:40 +0000

i think the idea behind this rule does not hold water you cannot force people to play football. what if you have a limited number of english players in England who are willing to play? will they revert the rule?
i think UEFA should give it a second thought before embarking of such a journey

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:41:40 +0000

The positive that I see coming from a 6+5 is that all those great foreign players that are currently playing for the big 4 that will have to be let go will get dispersed to other clubs, many of them in the Premier league. I would guess that mid-table sides would probably sell their lesser foreign players to make room for better foreign players that wanted to stay in the Prem, which would increase the quality of their team and, in turn, increase the competition in the league in general.

I recognize that that won’t be the case for all of them, but a lot of those foreign players are going to want to keep playing in England so they’ll find a team to play for. You can’t tell me that the Premier league race doesn’t get boring after a couple of years, unless you’re a fan of one of the big 4.