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English Premier league and players are some of the most overrated players and teams in the world..Hell yah Englands got some Fabulous players but not everysingle guy you just said you cant just pick someone whose done one thing good and say hes a star and if you checked out the spoiler i said i was jus playin
I'm sorry, I just got carried away :pQuote:
Note the "should I go on?" statement.
All of those players, except Scholes because he's retired from international's, will be in the World 2006 squad. The only regular England players who don't play in England are Owen and Beckham.
No other country in Europe can say 90% of their World Cup squad is drawn from their own country.
Except Italy, who can claim 100% are. :D
But yeah, aside from Italy's crazy 'Serie A only' policy, England has one of the stronger leagues in the world because of it's large English presence. Getting back on topic, most of the dominant clubs in the Premiership have a strong English base of players. Manchester United could easily survive without Cristiano Ronaldo, but could they manage without Ferdinand or Scholes? Chelsea could let go of Arjen Robben any time they wanted, and Duff/Drogba and co. would keep on scoring. But remove John Terry, and they'd suffer a far greater blow.
Foreigners add spice to the English game, no doubt about it, but great sides in our league have always been built upon a solid base of home-grown players.
To add quality English players to your squad, with very few exceptions, requires a great amount of money. It is a lot cheaper for managers to dip in to the foreign market than to stump up in excess of £60 million for 2 players as Man Utd have. That's the nature of the beast though, if you've got the money then acquiring home grown talent is easy, if you're short on cash it's much harder.
By the way, Shoden, Blackburn a team that have got what it takes to reach the next level? Are you mental?
Meh, I'll admit it I had no clue what I was talkin about
We've got football in the U.S., but it's nothing like that. And what do you mean wimpy American sports, we've got...we've got...ah....HOCKEY.....no wait, thats Canada, but it's still on the same continent.....
Okay, we do have wimpy sports, I admit it. :cry: