Blatter & the 6+5 Quota

[johnnybluenose]

BBC SPORT | Football | Europe | Fifa backs Blatter on quota plan

I'm not sure how I feel about this, from all I have read it seems that the EU will not allow this, and that it is discrimination by Nationality.

I think this would be really bad news for the Barclays Premier League, and as such would bring the level of the third level leagues up a standard or two (Holland, France, Portugal, Scotland, etc)

The Premier League is a different class, too much bloody money from Sky, etc
The second tier, imho, of Germany, Spain, and Italy do just fine from the numbers I have seen...

[Tuna]

That is a tough one.

In one light, it has a spin of national protectionism and in the other it's a mandate for club teams to get serious about grooming their own home grown youth.

Will it affect the quality of football in the Barclays? I would definitely think so.

[johnnybluenose]

They have already started mandating a homegrown rule for the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League where, albeit not based on your nation of descent, but whether or not you were trained by your club's youth academy...I like that, because it forces teams to invest, and scout players (foreign or not) at the teenage years, i believe you have to have 6 homegrown including at the minimum 3 trained by your club and three by another club(s) in your FA for three years between the ages of 17 and 25.

I think for sure that I would support them mandating this throughout the leagues as well...but capping the palyers by Nationality sucks.

What if Chelsea or United go out and recruit a bunch of 15 year olds from Africa, Portugal, Spain, and Italy...train them up, and cannot use them because they have to find a spot (6 spots) for the staring 11 being English?

I also see this skyrocketing the dollar valuation clubs will put on their players outside of England. Currently English players are the most expensive in the world overall, stemming from the fact that most play in England, and the Leagues are too rich in England.

Imagine the Old Firm have to keep to this long term. Now both Celtic and Rangers will not have too much of an issue with this, as most of the Scots team are Old Firmers...That being said as they get older a Scott Brown for Celtic and Kevin Thomson for Rangers that went for in the neighborhood of 2-5 million pounds could be held ransom at Hibernian for 10+ knowing the Scottish powerhouses need to get their hands on these guys to compete if they miss the boat signing them up at a younger age.

Now some will say that is great for scottish Club Footballl as then it gives Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen, and Motherwell a chance to survive rather than being plundered and pillaged by the Old Firm consistantly, the flip side is that these players will know this, and in order to get into the spotight of European Football is that they will not sign long term contracts and then leave as Bosmans as soon as possible for the OF and subsequently the midpack teams in scotland will miss out on any cash for these kids, as the 2-3 million pounds they receive is better than a kick in the arse with a frozen boot.

The other spinoff is that when the G14 dissolved and the European Club Association was developed the new power broker group of clubs will split off from FIFA, sign their own TV deals, start their own Cup cometitions and Super League outside of the FA's they hail from respectively...

I could see this groups of clubs really fight this rule hard, as they are the group of clubs involved in the CL and Uefa Cup year in year out.

[Wolfgang]

Can you say I love it! We (Bayern) basically have the German National team playing for us anyways. The big english clubs would be hit the hardest and there is nothing wrong with that.