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Originally Posted by Damien
When you think about it so many players have moved to wherever in the world they can play first team football. British players usually stay with their existing clubs because there are only a handful of clubs they can move too, and due to moving to a competing team the price is high. They would never consider going to a league where they will play top flight football in a first team, Ligue 1 for example.
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I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. Its not the players choice where, when and how they go, it's the prospective clubs. A player can put in a transfer request but if noone wants to buy him, he isn't going to move.
I think its more to do with the fact that other clubs just don't scout our league as much as our clubs scout their's. I can't really remember the last time a foreign club bid for one of Spurs' homegrown players. Mourinho (when he was at Inter, maybe still does at Real) wanted Jenas but I think that was because a) Mourinho managed in the EPL and b) The link to Bobby.