Another reason for developing our own...

[Doctoroncall]

in the best facilities available as Fifa will be introducing new regulation for homegrown talent. This is one reason, along with the current PLs rules on homegrown players on why Phil Jones (£16m) and Henderson (£16m rising to £20m) have cost so much for their respective new clubs.

 

Fifa's new rule will introduce a system whereby nine players on every 18-man squad sheet must be homegrown

 

Buried amid the eulogies for their president, Sepp Blatter, national associations at Fifa's congress this month voted in favour of new youth development measures. Fifa's player‑status committee, headed by the former Football Association chairman, Geoff Thompson, is holding discussions with national associations, the European Clubs Association and Fifpro as it works up the new rules. Domestic leagues have not yet been invited to have their say. Thompson told the congress: "We must use the qualities associated with the 6+5 concept [a proposal under which clubs would have been compelled to field at least six homegrown players] in trying to manage a workable solution."

 

The 6+5 idea died a death amid opposition from clubs and, more importantly, from the European Union, which outlawed regulation according to players' nationality. The compromise agreement football struck with the EU was for eight players from every 25-man squad to have been developed within the fielding club's national association, which is now part of the Premier League rules.

 

Until now, Fifa youth-development regulation has not impacted on team selection. But if talks on the new regulations develop as Fifa hopes, then it will. New legislation is expected to be only about a year away. No wonder Henderson and Jones have cost so much.

[david in sweden]

...........and what a good job that we have the Academy that we do.

 

Some of the "big-name clubs" in the Prem. are going to feel the pressure when that rule comes into play.