‘Elite’ Clubs with Huge Squads/Hoovering up Junior talent. Flooding loan market

Or time to limit the number of players at all levels , that premier league teams have on their books and stop them hovering up all the talent, only to throw most away at the first opportunity

 

Spot on.

 

When you start seeing squad numbers 40+ playing for premier league teams , it laughable

 

I was reading something the other week whilst away. Chelsea, Man U / City have young kids from all over the globe, dozens of them. They aren’t the only ones, but the most prolific.

 

We were told the premier league would improve our national team and leagues. Well England 's men still have not one anything since 1966 and the only thing that has happened in the leagues, is the elite have got richer, whilst many at lower levels struggle and many clubs rack up debts chasing the golden goose of premier league football.

 

It's the trickle down theory. Doesn't work in football, doesn't work full stop.

 

To follop up on my last post, we do seem to be developing talent for other country's though

 

Said this many a time, max around 28 and if they want to bring one in they must first ship one out .....

 

Wasn’t it designed to stop wealthy teams buying last minute players to get them over the line?

 

Ah was it. Jewell brought in Windass late didn’t he - was he one such type?

 

In my opinion, loans should be used for emergency cover or, in the absence of a reserve side and league, for allowing players otherwise sidelined (injury, out of favour) to get in some game time. Let's say 2 weeks for a loan duration, with one further fortnight's extension allowed. Limit loans to, say, 5 players maximum per team, and further limit the number allowed in a match-day squad, say 3 (and that's being generous).

Too often now loans are used as fundamental building-blocks for a side -- witness Crichlow now for us -- which might be good in the short term, but bad in the long.

RCB

 

I don’t recall when but I’m sure that’s why it was introduced because a free for all could see teams with pots of cash buying promotions or indeed relegations. @Dennis . Am I right!

 

The broken loan system, EPPP and the whole culture of PL clubs amassing gigantic squads of youngsters with the sole purpose of making more profit by restricting smaller clubs access to talent is another reason why we need an independent regulator to come in and enforce some rules that are beneficial to the sport as a whole rather than to a few clubs at the top of the pile.

Personally I'd ban loans or at the very least put some rules in place to redress the balance in the favour of the smaller club but there's no way that will happen any time soon because if the PL got wind of anything like that they'd just threaten to stop the "solidarity payments" and the EFL clubs will step right back in to line.

 

TBF we are seeing a hell of a lot more English talent in the PL and especially in the big 6. I do think the English teams depth is as good as it has been since the PL era started......take ya point we are still yet to win a trophy but the improvements are there to see (I am not a Southgate fan but that's another debate).