People ALWAYS say how the influx of foreign players shouldn't matter, because if English kids are good enough then they'll get through... but there's a fundamental problem with contact hours.
So there's a choice for clubs at the moment, give the kids the right number of contact hours (or closer to the right number)... or just poach kids in their late teens from countries/clubs where they have received a good number of contact hours. Hopefully that makes sense.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/17/england-world-cup-watford
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Basically I think there should be a cap on foreign talent in our youth system/international transfers shouldn't really happen with kids (wait until they're eighteen).
You've missed the point COMPLETELY, getting rid of foreign players, with your argument WOULD NOT increase the amount of coaching English players got, which would mean English players would suck exactly as much as before, there would just be more, worse players in the league.
SO the best 30-40 English players, instead of playing weekly against better players, will be playing against worse players. I think you'll find it pretty hard to find anyone who thinks playing against worse players will make anyone a better player.
The whole point, from the information YOU'VE linked, is that if you increase training time, english players would be better, if English players would be better, firstly, thats the end of the argument, right there you've worked out how to make English players better, job done, nothing to do with foreign players at all. But secondly, the natural occurance, if English players got better, would be less clubs would bother getting as many foreign players in, because they've got free/youth players who cost a lot less and have been at the club since academy days.
The ONLY thing that information highlights is the lack of training in the uk for english players, and you've read something completely and utterly different into it because you wanted to.
The other simple fact is that, plenty of great English players are around, the management, tactics, idea's, and team selection was appauling. No one can possibly comment saying England can't improve till our youths are trained better, or that players like Lampard aren't amongst the best in the world, thats rubbish, our manager was inept, and we keep choosing the wrong managers, and the wrong squads. Half the squad wasn't good enough to be there, we have far better players who didn't get in the squad compared to half the people that went.
Watford have shown it can be done, every other country can do it. It costs a lot less to run a school for a few dozen kids, than to buy a single player for 5million, the only issue is, no ones really bothered till this point, because no one from high up in the FA has tried to organise anything. France has had Clairefontane for god knows how long now, I have a friend who ended up going to learn to be a coach there after school.
Backwards thinking here, its got smeg all to do with foreign limits or foreign players, the sooner the FA, and the fans in this country stop looking for easy scapegoats, the sooner the FA will do something about the real problem.
). But I have a feeling this could work. We will probably be compensating the quality of the League for a few years. But together with proper investment in youth development (and by that I mean mental attitude and not just building fancy 4G pitches), we might just see a World Cup before the icecaps melt.
