Summer Transfer Window 23/24

mysticsniper said:
IMO Barnes and all but Maddison who are still in contract need to get Leicester out of the position they got us all in.

Unfortunately, the business doesn't work like that.

I'm expecting club Legend Vardy to stay. He'll still be a menace to those defences next season.
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I'll be watching the foxes next year as I think they(with Vardy) will run away with that league.
 
mysticsniper said:
IMO Barnes and all but Maddison who are still in contract need to get Leicester out of the position they got us all in.

Unfortunately, the business doesn't work like that.

I'm expecting club Legend Vardy to stay. He'll still be a menace to those defences next season.
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I'm not sure Vardy has shown anything this year to indicate he'd particularly do anything next year

For whatever reason he looks shot.
 
Bigpig said:
No MacTominay then!! Seen they were looking 30m+ same as January.

This guy also counts as home grown.
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Don't want to side-track the discussion too much but reading this shows how utterly ridiculous this homegrown rule is where this chap is "homegrown" and players like Eric Dier (with England caps) and Ben Davies (seemingly played in the PL for eternity) are not
 
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Davies is homegrown. Dier isn't because he wasn't a youth player in this country, he's homegrown in Portugal because he spent his whole youth playing there. Don't see why it's ridiculous.
 
Shamikebab said:
Davies is homegrown. Dier isn't because he wasn't a youth player in this country, he's homegrown in Portugal because he spent his whole youth playing there. Don't see why it's ridiculous.
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Davies was not counted as homegrown for many seasons in CL - only very recently if I recall. In fact we had Doherty, Davies, Skipp and Rodon all ineligible, all very much British, all played in the country for a fair few seasons that's why it's ridiculous. Dier has played for Spurs since he was 20, by all accounts still a youth. I'm not sure what the purpose of the scheme is, it's certainly not to improve the national team's talent pool, seems like an arbitrary hurdle for teams to navigate - need to fulfil the quota? throw in a few random 17 year old "homegrown" keepers into the squad.
 
I think you're getting confused by UEFA and the PL's different rules. Homegrown in the PL simply means a player that has spent 3 years before the age of 21 at an English club and in the PL you're allowed to name a 25 man squad but with a maximum of 17 non homegrown players. It's slightly different with UEFA. You still get the 25 man squad and 17 non home grown players but of the 8 homegrown spots, at least 4 must have been at that specific club for 3 years prior to their 21st birthday.
 
BaZ87 said:
I think you're getting confused by UEFA and the PL's different rules. Homegrown in the PL simply means a player that has spent 3 years before the age of 21 at an English club and in the PL you're allowed to name a 25 man squad but with a maximum of 17 non homegrown players. It's slightly different with UEFA. You still get the 25 man squad and 17 non home grown players but of the 8 homegrown spots, at least 4 must have been at that specific club for 3 years prior to their 21st birthday.
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I have no doubt I got them mixed up but they both still cross over and complicate matters, I still don't understand the importance of being under 21 at an English club for x amount of years - if anything seems more of a clipping of young British talent's wings by making them reconsider earning their stripes abroad
 
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BaZ87 said:
I think you're getting confused by UEFA and the PL's different rules. Homegrown in the PL simply means a player that has spent 3 years before the age of 21 at an English club and in the PL you're allowed to name a 25 man squad but with a maximum of 17 non homegrown players. It's slightly different with UEFA. You still get the 25 man squad and 17 non home grown players but of the 8 homegrown spots, at least 4 must have been at that specific club for 3 years prior to their 21st birthday.
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Can that time be spent on loan?

Just wondering if Saliba and Martinelli are homegrown?
 
postbox said:
I have no doubt I got them mixed up but they both still cross over and complicate matters, I still don't understand the importance of being under 21 at an English club for x amount of years - if anything seems more of a clipping of young British talent's wings by making them reconsider earning their stripes abroad
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It was done like that because they couldn't link it to nationality, certainly at least not when we were still in the EU. I'm not sure of the legality since Brexit but I don't think there's any desire from the PL sides to make things harder for themselves.
robfosters said:
Can that time be spent on loan?

Just wondering if Saliba and Martinelli are homegrown?
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I'm not 100% sure but I believe they'll count as homegrown, yea.
 
I thought loans weren't included, so has to be 3 years without loans before 21. If you'd loaned him to an English club he'd be homegrown for England but not Arsenal specifically for CL. So Saliba won't count because he's only spent one year in England. He's French homegrown and club homegrown to Saint-Etienne. Martinelli will be though because he's spent that time at Arsenal.
 
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I think I’m right in saying that at £102m, Rice would be the most expensive English player ever.

Honestly didn’t think I’d ever see Arsenal paying over £100m for a player. Can’t help thinking this will still go wrong somewhere.
 
bigup said:
The Qataris’ intention is to sell Kylian Mbappe to #mufc this summer if Sheikh Jassim’s bid is successful. They have been planning the deal since February. Mbappe finds the idea ‘interesting’.
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Mbappe will be going to Real Madrid, probably in the next couple of weeks, thanks to his clever manipulation of his contract ending in 2024.
 
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