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Originally Posted by Locke
England isnt developing its own players. Thats the first problem.
It costs a lot more for an English team to load up, especially because their average weekly wages are higher especially on top clubs and they dont develop their own talent to fill out roster spots.
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I don't buy into that theory at all.
I believe it's more of a case that they don't get a decent look in at most clubs at the expense of average foreign players.
It's only a generation ago that English clubs (Liverpool/Villa/Forest absolutely dominated Europe based on homegrown and Scottish talent. There's a lot of very 'average' foreign players out there that imo are taking up places that home grown talent could do just as easily.
Also ... football is strange in that clubs will spend millions on proven average. Take for example Cleverley. A proven very average, safe non creative player. Yet, instead of taking a risk and giving someone from the academy or another youngster a crack clubs will spend $ on him because he is safe.
I think its a case of the manager turnover being so quick nowadays that there is little time to risk the young uns at the expense of jobs.