by ferrarilover » 10 May 2014, 20:50
Clubs don't sign foreign stars to spite English talent, they sign foreign talent because it's better than anything England has to offer. Good young English players do make it at the top level, just the same as not-quite-good-enough foreigners fail. You're making a noise, but absolutely no cogent argument is spewing forth. So you watched the '66 final, what exactly does that prove?
The idea that young Englishmen don't make it because it's too much of a risk makes no sense. It presumes that playing English youngsters is somehow more risky than playing foreign youngsters, which simply isn't the case.
The fault is with a lack of English talent, it doesn't matter that Januzai gets a space in the side ahead of Smith (or whatever the English chap is called). If Smith were the better player, he'd get in the side. Since he isn't, he doesn't. Just the same as there's some Italian striker playing in Serie B today because he wasn't quite as good as Wayne Rooney 10 years ago.
The cream rises to the top, regardless of nationality.
There's not a single foreigner in the Afghani Premier Division, if foreigners taking national spaces in the top division causes problems, why aren't they favourites for the WC?
Nothing you're saying makes sense in the face of the endless "foreign muck" argument trotted out by people whose only interest in football is how many more millions of pounds they can screw out of it.
You've said it yourself, when a team of exceptionally talented young Englishmen comes along, it's been proven to work. That Man Utd team won, what, 30 trophies. If clubs thought they could repeat that for free, why would they spend hundreds of millions of pounds importing "inferior" foreign players? Just to teach the English national team some sort of lesson? Perhaps in retaliation for the hooliganism of the 80s?
Matt.
Clubs don't sign foreign stars to spite English talent, they sign foreign talent because it's better than anything England has to offer. Good young English players do make it at the top level, just the same as not-quite-good-enough foreigners fail. You're making a noise, but absolutely no cogent argument is spewing forth. So you watched the '66 final, what exactly does that prove?
The idea that young Englishmen don't make it because it's too much of a risk makes no sense. It presumes that playing English youngsters is somehow more risky than playing foreign youngsters, which simply isn't the case.
The fault is with a lack of English talent, it doesn't matter that Januzai gets a space in the side ahead of Smith (or whatever the English chap is called). If Smith were the better player, he'd get in the side. Since he isn't, he doesn't. Just the same as there's some Italian striker playing in Serie B today because he wasn't quite as good as Wayne Rooney 10 years ago.
The cream rises to the top, regardless of nationality.
There's not a single foreigner in the Afghani Premier Division, if foreigners taking national spaces in the top division causes problems, why aren't they favourites for the WC?
Nothing you're saying makes sense in the face of the endless "foreign muck" argument trotted out by people whose only interest in football is how many more millions of pounds they can screw out of it.
You've said it yourself, when a team of exceptionally talented young Englishmen comes along, it's been proven to work. That Man Utd team won, what, 30 trophies. If clubs thought they could repeat that for free, why would they spend hundreds of millions of pounds importing "inferior" foreign players? Just to teach the English national team some sort of lesson? Perhaps in retaliation for the hooliganism of the 80s?
Matt.
