So, 8 Home Grown Players Per PL Team, How Many Have Enough?

[Castrol Craig]

So the rule is 8 home grown players in each team, how many Premier League teams can do that.....

[spurs-442]

Castrol Craig said:

So the rule is 8 home grown players in each team, how many Premier League teams can do that.....

I don't the answer to that but I am damned as hell sure that Arsenal, Man U, Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool can't

[MiniMan64]

Isn't it home grown, as in trained at the club for a number of years, doesn't actually mean they have to be English does it?

[Castrol Craig]

MiniMan64 said:

Isn't it home grown, as in trained at the club for a number of years, doesn't actually mean they have to be English does it?

i beleive so.

[Cupid Stunt]

MiniMan64 said:

Isn't it home grown, as in trained at the club for a number of years, doesn't actually mean they have to be English does it?

Yeah, they have to have been registered with an English or Welsh club for 3 years before their 21st birthday. The likes of Cesc Fabregas who was signed as a 16 year old would qualify as home grown

[Republik]

So whats the rule? They have to be English or Welsh and registered with an English club 3 years before their 21st birthday? Can that be any English club or the club they currently pay for? If its the former then Man Utd are ok.

Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Michael Carrick, Chris Smalling and Paul Scholes. Plus a few other players coming through who aren't yet 21.

[TEKNOPUG]

Spurs have 19 out of their current 1st team squad of 31 who qualify.

[Cupid Stunt]

In answer to the question, I'll go through Everton's current 1st team squad:

GKs:
Tim Howard - Foreign
Jan Mucha - Foreign
Iain Turner - Home grown

Def:
Tony Hibbert - Home grown
Leighton Baines - Home grown
Joseph Yobo - Foreign
John Heitinga - Foreign
Phil Jagielka - Home grown
Sylvain Distin - Foreign
Seamus Coleman - Home grown
Shane Duffy - Under 21

Mid:
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov - Foreign
Mikel Arteta - Foreign
Tim Cahill - Home grown
Phil Neville - Home grown
Steven Pienaar - Foreign
Leon Osman - Home grown
Marouane Fellaini - Foreign
Jack Rodwell - Under 21
James Wallace - Under 21


Louis Saha - Foreign
James Vaughan - Home grown
Jermaine Beckford - Home grown
Magaye Gueye - Under 21
Yakubu - Foreign
Joao Silva - Under 21
Victor Anichebe - Home grown
Kieran Agard - Under 21
Jose Baxter - Under 21

I make that 29 players, 11 of which are foreign, 11 home grown with 7 under 21s. Of the under 21s, only 2 will be classed as foreign once they turn 21.

[curlie467]

I am pretty sure that i read something last year that stated that all the prem teams actually qualify.

Liverpool have a shed load because you can submit as many players under 21 as you like.
Main squad, Johnson, Gerrard, Carragher, Cole, Kelly, Spearing, Pacheco.
Under 21`s, Gulasci, Bouzanis, Darby, Ayala, Palsson, Amoo, Ecclestone, Dalle Valle (maybe), Shelvey, etc.

[Cupid Stunt]

Republik said:

So whats the rule? They have to be English or Welsh and registered with an English club 3 years before their 21st birthday? Can that be any English club or the club they currently pay for? If its the former then Man Utd are ok.

Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Michael Carrick, Chris Smalling and Paul Scholes. Plus a few other players coming through who aren't yet 21.

Yeah, any club as long as it's English or Welsh. If Tim Cahill went to another Premiership team he'd be classed as home grown because Millwall signed him more than 3 years before his 21st birthday.