KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum 8/25 Homegrown Players

Due to the new rule, all clubs must have minimum 8 homegrown players in their 25 matchday squad. Plus, a homegrown counts to be someone who has played in England/Wales for 3 years if they're between 16 and 21. Here's what ours looks like: 1. Steven Gerrard, 2. Jamie Carragher, 3. Glen Johnson, 4. Emiliano Insua, 5. Peter Gulacsi, 6. Dani Pacheco, 7. Jay Spearing, 8. Jonjo Shelvey. So I don't know what everyone is going on about in saying that we must sign Danny Murphy, Ashley Young etc when we have enough to go in our 25 matchday squad.

You can add Martin Kelly to that list as i think he will be ahead of some of the players listed.

Because it is for a 25 matchday team and Jay Spearing, Peter Gulacsi, Dani Pacheco and Jonjo Shelvey are all inexpreienced players who havn't proved themselves in the premiership just yet. If we had Young, Murphy ect we would have stronger more expirenced matchday team. This was part of the problem last season not enough depth and inexperienced players in the squad.

How could I forget him? That kid has a great future ahead of him. Hopefully all his injury problems are behind him.

Just checked Premier League website and the rule also includes unlimited additional players under the age of 21. Therefore the rule is 17 can be over the age of 21 & not home grown.

i totally agree with this rule it raises the bar for younger and/or english talent.

i just think its a bit harsh the way uefa have suddenly put their foot down. surely they could have began at 5 or 6 player then progressively worked towards the 8 to allow clubs to adapt.

does anyone here think jay spearing is going to be top class? not from what i've seen of the lad anyway, granted didnt see a lot of him but what i did he seem slow and nothing to write home about. im sure i'll be corrected if he is any good lol

no one knows for sure merv, i think ive seen him play for like 10mins max. one appearance against madrid in champs league and another in a pl match cant remember. Some of us might of seen him play for the reserves but am sure thats a different scenerio. Im hoping hodgson can give the young guys a chance especially spearing and lets hope they come good and improve our homegrown list.

I'm not completely sure whether we will have Steve G or Glen Johnson with us next season. As far as Jay Spearing is concerned, he is scouse, combative and would play his socks off. Snag is, he's a bit small. But I think the lad deserves a chance.

What about Stephen Darby ??

For me it should be 20 of the 25 players being home grown. Far too many average foreign players coming to the Premiership for an easy payoff. There are an awful lot of quality, young, British players who never get the chance to progress because of cheap, foreign imports.