Keano4taoiseach
08-12-2007, 02:52 AM
Sir Alex Ferguson wants a quota system introduced to prevent the demise of
home-grown players.
A leaked report from the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) has backed
the idea of having a 'balanced' policy, where home-produced players play
alongside those from abroad.
Ferguson has always been a strong believer in nurturing his own stars, and
whilst he admits that European employment laws make it difficult to implement
such ideas, he has given his backing to the scheme where a club is required to
have a certain number of domestic players within their match-day squad.
Agree
"(Michel) Platini and (Sepp) Blatter have been talking about having a quota of
home-grown players and I totally agree with that," the Manchester United boss
said.
"They say it can't be done because of employment law, but if you have a certain
number of English players in your squad, you could still have foreign players.
"Whether it could be applied, or agreed to by all clubs, I am not so sure. But there
would be nothing wrong with it."
Parochial
Ferguson did however criticise the current ruling which prevents clubs from
signing players who live more than 90 minutes travel time away. This, he
believes, is one of the major factors behind so many teams turning to foreign
youngsters.
"The system is restrictive and parochial because, from a certain area, we are
expected to produce players, year after year, of the quality needed for
Manchester United," he complained.
"It is the same for any top club, so what has happened over the last few years is
that we have has to look abroad.
"We have to look abroad, as we did with Giuseppe Rossi and Gerard Pique, simply
because we need to maintain a high standard of young players at our football
club."
Taylor
Gordon Taylor, PFA chief executive, agrees with Ferguson and believes that it is
up to the governing bodies to change the rules to ensure home-grown players
are allowed to make their mark.
"We are not objecting to clubs bringing in young foreign players to their
academies, because there is a level playing field there for young English players,"
Taylor said.
"We are saying though that we need to encourage youth development so that
home-grown players irrespective of nationality have a better chance.
"Uefa have a rule that eight players in the 25-man squad for European
competitions must be home-grown.
"We would like to see this extended that so at least three or four in the team,
have come through the club's development programme."
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home-grown players.
A leaked report from the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) has backed
the idea of having a 'balanced' policy, where home-produced players play
alongside those from abroad.
Ferguson has always been a strong believer in nurturing his own stars, and
whilst he admits that European employment laws make it difficult to implement
such ideas, he has given his backing to the scheme where a club is required to
have a certain number of domestic players within their match-day squad.
Agree
"(Michel) Platini and (Sepp) Blatter have been talking about having a quota of
home-grown players and I totally agree with that," the Manchester United boss
said.
"They say it can't be done because of employment law, but if you have a certain
number of English players in your squad, you could still have foreign players.
"Whether it could be applied, or agreed to by all clubs, I am not so sure. But there
would be nothing wrong with it."
Parochial
Ferguson did however criticise the current ruling which prevents clubs from
signing players who live more than 90 minutes travel time away. This, he
believes, is one of the major factors behind so many teams turning to foreign
youngsters.
"The system is restrictive and parochial because, from a certain area, we are
expected to produce players, year after year, of the quality needed for
Manchester United," he complained.
"It is the same for any top club, so what has happened over the last few years is
that we have has to look abroad.
"We have to look abroad, as we did with Giuseppe Rossi and Gerard Pique, simply
because we need to maintain a high standard of young players at our football
club."
Taylor
Gordon Taylor, PFA chief executive, agrees with Ferguson and believes that it is
up to the governing bodies to change the rules to ensure home-grown players
are allowed to make their mark.
"We are not objecting to clubs bringing in young foreign players to their
academies, because there is a level playing field there for young English players,"
Taylor said.
"We are saying though that we need to encourage youth development so that
home-grown players irrespective of nationality have a better chance.
"Uefa have a rule that eight players in the 25-man squad for European
competitions must be home-grown.
"We would like to see this extended that so at least three or four in the team,
have come through the club's development programme."
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