FBS:
Them people for russia are trying to implement (did actually implement) the same strategy/proposal as Dyke's and it did nothing to help their national team or league. In fact, the reverse was/is the case.

The EPL is a MASSIVE business, a package that no longer rests on the shoulders of made in England and ONLY for English people. If they pursue Dyke's proposal, I have no doubt that it will backfire.

Nihilist:
Who dey vote tommorow?

Nihilist:
Who dey vote tommorow?

AirborneLacer:


I wan sell my vote, you get an APC or PDP agent contact?

Danhumprey:
Sell your vote,ke?

Chinedu,you better come home and vote o!

AirborneLacer:


I wan sell my vote, you get an APC or PDP agent contact?

Nihilist:

Me sef na contractor. I dey supply career political thugs with the tools of their trade. Oruka, lebe, machete,assorted broken bottles, and wraps of good igbo.

I suspect bimffo fits the profile of my regular clientele. I know Raumdeuter is a well known Adedibu boy, who was active in the June 12 riot, but it seems he has retired now.

Nihilist:
Who dey vote tommorow?

AirborneLacer:




I've embraced political aparty, I have no business with politics.

Nihilist:

Me sef na contractor. I dey supply career political thugs with the tools of their trade. Oruka, lebe, machete,assorted broken bottles, and wraps of good igbo.

I suspect bimffo fits the profile of my regular clientele. I know Raumdeuter is a well known Adedibu boy, who was active in the June 12 riot, but it seems he has retired now.

TreQuartista:

Being apolitical nor follow say make you nor vote na. . .

Being enmeshed in politics and performing your civic responsibilities nor combine.

Nihilist:

Historically, most Balon D'or winners ply their trade outside the EPL. The one and only EPL player to win it was CR7 and that was 7 years ago.

Nihilist:
Look at English teams flopping in Europe. EPL clubs can't even attract the biggest names in football these days, and the best players in the league invariably end up at Madrid or Barca.

Nihilist:
EPL as a business is not based on talent but hype.

Nihilist:
It's sold as brand on the back of 4 clubs. Surely you don't think people all over the world tune in to watch the worldbeaters at Aston Villa and West Brom slug out a 0-0 draw in the Midlands Derby?

Nihilist:

This rule is really targeted at those 4 clubs who have the finances, personnel and facilities to develop the English grassroot game to world class quality or something close
The current model sees clubs hoovering up the most talented youngsters from academies, farming them out on loan to other clubs who have no interest in long term development of the loanee and as such use them anyhow, and eventually these English players end up in the lower leagues.

By forcing the clubs to develop talent that they have to play, these youngsters may finally get the chance to develop that they simply don't have now.

We only have 1 English regular our team. Cahill dey struggle with Zouma so he doesn't count. Bertrand might have been something but he got dispatched by an 18 million pound flop. Sturridge might have been something, but a 50 million pound flop stood in his way. McEchran might have been something. Bamford could have been something.

And from an FA perspective, a stronger grassroots equals a stronger national pool to choose from.

Nihilist:
Who dey vote tommorow?

Dhellake:
I dey vote

FBS:
But it wasnt so last season. Or the season before that. We were in the semis and we all know how Real demolished Banshit.
It was an all spanish final, and we've also had an ALL english final. I also remember Fulham going far in the Europa. Its cyclical to some extent. .

raumdeuter:
WHen would an EPL dominated English team make a major semi finals or even win the tournament

coogar:


when the foreign mercenaries are kicked out. the money is the problem here. there's no wide gulf between the top teams & the rest of the pack like in germany & spain.

raumdeuter:

I agree money is the problem. Any local league is for first and foremost the improvement of the local game and development of the local talents

The Nigerian fan that supports Man Utd , ARsenal or Chelsea would only think about their own entertainment while not caring what happens to the local game.

The real English people would rather England win a world cup than Chelsea winning the Champions league

Bimffo:


Dhellake, where U dey??

Africa reacted angrily when English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke announced new measures intended to boost England's national team.

This is because the rules regarding the granting of work permits to players from outside the European Union were fundamentally changing.

From 1 May, footballers from countries outside Fifa's top 50-ranked sides will find it harder to play in English football - whereas the previous rule covered countries in the top 70.
At a stroke, footballers from eight African nations sitting in the 50-70 belt - Mali, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, South Africa, Egypt, Zambia, Rwanda and Burkina Faso - found any Premier League dreams shattered.

Former Nigeria captain Sunday Oliseh called the changes
"unnecessary warfare", and legitimately asked why England can't do more to improve its coaching standards.

Meanwhile Zambia Football Association President Kalusha Bwalya said his career "would not even have started if these proposals were in place" when he was a player.

He labelled the system "unfair" and said talent should be rewarded no matter when you are from, citing George Weah - the only African to ever be crowned Fifa Footballer of the Year (in 1995) - as an example.

The striker, who made his name at Monaco and Milan before joining Chelsea, hails from Liberia, who are currently 117th in the world and who have never been higher than 66th.

The good news though is that the rules have been misunderstood to a certain degree and that if a player from an African nation outside Fifa's top 50 is good enough - and that is the key, being good enough - he is still likely to make it to England.

The new proposals are planned to increase the chances for quality players to come in, and both the size of the transfer fee and wage will be factored in when considering whether to import a player who fails the new work permit rules.

In short, the higher the price, the better chance for a non-EU player to gain entry, especially if he is already proven in Europe.

The key difference is that routine players who have contributed little to the game, perhaps even having fallen through the divisions, are being targeted for exclusion, with the obvious hope that English players can make the most of the places that will have been freed up for them.

So Emmanuel Mayuka may not have made it to Southampton, for example, while a host of Africans would never have made it to the championship.

In fact, the English FA says 33% of players who earned work permits under the old system in the last five years would not have been granted a visa under the new rules.

It all means countless African footballers will try their luck elsewhere - with perhaps more finding their way to Spain's La Liga or German's thundering Bundesliga or the riches on offer in Russia.

Many pathways are still open - it is just that the quality of players from the continent arriving in the Premier League is set to be the creme de la creme - adding to the riches already provided by Didier Drogba, Yaya Toure and Michael Essien among others.

Given the pride Africans take in seeing their own light up the Premier League, this should not be too damaging - unless you are an agent of course.

Nihilist:
lol see the people wey dey complain...Zambian FA chairman

Ibime:


Kalusha Bwalya ain't just Zambian FA Chairman, he's an African legend, a former APOTY, a ninja with 100 International goals and Captain of the doomed 1993 team that died in Gabon, yet rallied the new players to reach the final of Tunisia 94 with a brand new team.

When you talk of Rabah Majer, Abedi Pele, Roger Milla, Rashidi Yekini, Japhet N'doram and George Weah. . . . you talk of Kalusha Bwalya.

Put it this way. . . Eden Hazard has never finished as high as Kalusha Bwalya in voting for the Ballon D'or.