No one who is bereft of ideas of how to help young sportsmen should be permitted to advise them to go abroad !
This was the advice of the new Chief Executive Officer of the English Football Association, Martin Glenn, to Young Footballers aged 18+ without a club !
Martin Glenn must go to the roots of the problem. Three main reasons have created this situation:
1. The richest Football Clubs in England (Manchester United, Chelsea and others) only want to BUY ready made Star footballers who can guarantee success but cost a fortune to buy .
2. Top clubs no longer have the time to bother with developement work on promising future stars : they prefer to LOAN them to smaller clubs which will provide them with real-time playing experience ! If they do not "make the grade", they are abandoned .
3. Smaller clubs can therefore no longer attract "potential stars" but are also handicapped when "stars in the making" are recalled earlier than expected by Lending Clubs to cover an emergency !
What clubs really want Martin Glenn to do, is to limit the number of loan players any one club can Loan and any one club can Accept . There must be limits !
If Martin Glenn consults the statistics of the number of British born and bred players in Premiership Squads, he will understand the extent of the problem . Should first team squads not have 50% of UK born and bred players ? The future of the National Team depends on what he decides .
Furthermore, this problem originates not in Enland but in FIFA and in UEFA. There are certainly other countries which have this same problem .
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