Re: Football Close Season Thread
what I would like to see is the clubs going back to training local players. I think the FA have the 60 mile radius rule but that only applies to English players. That then meant all the top clubs scouted the top foreign youngsters and brought them in instead.
What UEFA need to do is get the clubs to train local players only. To suggest someone is good at football based on where they are born is rubbish, it's all down to the training you get. If the top prem clubs just trained English players there would still be plenty of talent about as long as they got into the system earlier.
I'd also like all the prem clubs to have to help local kids at all abilities. I can't play football to save my life but if my local club help groups for people of my ability, something they could easily afford, I would have gone. I would have met new people and also I would be making myself healthier, instead they are only really interested in people with talent
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