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You can be foreign and qualify for the home grown rule if you've been here long enough from a certain age. Fabregas qualified as home grown.

We need to take the German model but as I said before, the EPL arrogantly beleives it's the best there is so wont do anything. The FA are too scared of the EPL and probably wouldn't have a clue what to do anyway so English football is pretty well fecked.

Yeah a foreign player can be homegrown if he's trained at the club for 3 years between his 15th and 21st birthdays.

But did the rule actually come in?

By the looks of things it has nothing to do with the starting 11, but instead teams are only allowed to register (up to) 17 non home grown players in their squad (at the start of the season?)

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/fans/faqs/home-grown-player-rule.html