Owzat wrote:Russian doll! Russian doll! Quick mods, bump the thread back up!
Agree with Puroresu, it is hard to get excited by signing 30+ year olds and spending £2m+ on them when they are at best journeymen footballers. And to pick up on other "observations" :
- he's English. So f in what? I think a few people need to get their heads round the whole homegrown player ruling because even Citeh shouldn't be that bothered by it. I mean what hardship they might suffer IF they have to sell seven players. Arsenal must be laughing at people who knocked them for lacking English players with the new rule imminent since players like Fabregas, Denilson, Song and Bendtner qualify as homegrown! It has more holes in it than swiss cheese as rules go
- Kyrgiakos is old and look how he worked out. What so we should buy Young because a signing worked out ok playing limited games and of course Young is English. Wow! I thought we tried to sign good players at a good price, preferably under 30 and if they're English then that's a bonus. We don't watch out then Woy could turn us into Fulham and have an ageing squad of decent players but nothing special. If people want rid of Lucas, Insua, N'Gog and Babel then what is our youth? Nemeth and Pacheco who may or may not make it? Cole is 28, Young 31, Jovanovic 29 and while Wilson and Shelvey may be very young, they are also unproven because of it - especially in a decent top flight league
there is absolutely no reason to worry about not having all 8 homegrown players. You are allowed 17 foreign players and all the U21 players you want. A club could get by with this alone. But we already have Gerrard, Carra, Johnson, and Cole, which puts us on pretty solid footing for the year as far as the rule is concerned.
I think a much bigger problem is the quality of some of our foreigners (i.e Degen, Plessis, El Zhar not the (lack of) quantity in homegrown players.
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