With the new rules coming into effect next season I thought it’s worth looking into them to see how it will effect the squads. For those who don’t know, teams in the Premier League will be limited to a squad of 25 next season 8 of whom have to be home grown (trained in England/Wales for 3 years before their 21st Birthday.
You can have as many U21 players outside the squad as you want.
Took most of this from elsewhere so I can’t vouch for their accuracy but at a glance it seems quite accurate.
Chelsea Arsenal Liverpool Man Utd
1. Terry 1. Bendtner 1. Johnson 1. Neville
2. Lampard 2. Clichy 2. Gerrard 2. Ferdinand
3. Cole 3. Djourou 3. Carragher 3. Brown
4. Turnbull 4. Gibbs 4. Spearing 4. Owen
5. Mancienne 5. Traore 5. Insua 5. Rooney
6. J.Cole 6. Song 6. Shelvey 6. Giggs
7. Mikel 7. Cesc 7. Kelly 7. Foster
8. Hutchinson 8. Walcott 8. Ayala 8. Carrick
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9. Cech 9. Sol 9. Cavalieri 9. Scholes
10. Ivanovic 10. Senderos 10. Agger 10. O'Shea
11. Alex 11. Vela 11. Torres 11. Evans
12. Zhirkov 12. Almunia 12. Aurelio 12. Fletcher
13. Essien 13. Van Persie 13. Benayoun 13. Gibson
14. Malouda 14. Fabianski 14. Maxi 14. VDS
15. Drogba 15. Sagna 15. Kuyt 15. Kuszczak
16. Anelka 16. Vermaelen 16. Babel 16. Evra
17. Bosingwa 17. Gallas 17. Mascherano 17. Hargreaves
18. Matic 18. Silvestre 18. Lucas 18. Anderson
19. Kalou 19. Diaby 19. Riera 19. Berbatov
20. Ballack 20. Rosicky 20. Ngog 20. Park
21. Deco 21. Nasri 21. Reina 21. Vidic
22. Carvalho 22. Arshavin 22. El Zhar 22. Nani
23. Ferraira 23. Eboue 23. Skrtel 23. Valencia
24. Hilario 24. Eduardo 24. Aquilani 24. Tosic
25. Belletti 25. Denilson 25. Nemeth 25 Obertan
So to sum up:
– Chelsea and United would need to sell before buying. If Joe Cole leaves Chelsea he’ll have to be replaced by someone who fits the HG rules.
– Arsenal’s system of kidnapping european babes has paid off hugely, is this what they intended?
I stole this off an arsenal web site, that is a bit old, but you get the drift.
Will be interesting to see how this effects the transfer window, will the big clubs start looking to buy more English players?
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No More Workhorse 
This can only lead to two things (i) more pinching of teenage players from the continent before they sign professional forms, and (ii) even greater price inflation for English players, many of who (I would say) are already over-priced.
I guess that this is the FA trying to help the English game, but I’m not really convinced that it will work – you’ll end up with squad fillers rather than forcing clubs to invest in youth training, I suspect. Smaller clubs may struggle with it too, as spending £x on training 200 youth players, one of whom might make it is more expensive than buying a player in, using him for a couple of seasons, then selling him on (hopefully at a profit).
I’m unconvinced.
it is hard to know how it will play out alright. it seems strange that it will favour arsenal, who despit not having any english players in their youth team, have players that qualify. really does favour poaching early.
the max squad of 25 will be interesting also, means you can only really have two players in any one position, and means we’ll get back to the good old days of players playing out of position.
do you remember the time steve staunton played up front for the ‘pool and scored a hat trick? did that actually happen, or did i make it up?
it will be interesting…