Like all avid EPL fans are probably aware, the new rules prescribe the minimum number of players in national teams of each Premier League club is in full force this season.
Given the miserable performance of England at the recent World Cup, many argue that these rules could not come a day earlier. Critics of the influx of foreign players in EPL would argue that as the number of foreign players has steadily risen, the quality of local talent has also declined steadily.
This does not mean that Premier League clubs now have seen the error of their ways are. If you were hoping to see the teams focus on developing a new stream of Academy stars like those who came through the ranks at Old Trafford in 1990 or those who have come through the Everton Academy (including the likes Wayne Rooney, and more recently, Jack Rodwell) and West Ham (including household names such as Rio Ferdinand, Joe Cole, Frank Lampard to name a few). May be disappointed
Why? Since the new rules state that each of the 20 Premier League clubs must submit a squad to 25 players. Each team must contain no more than 17 players who do not qualify as domestic. So, the question is a requirement for qualification as a domestic.
To qualify as a domestic in accordance with this less-than-hard football federation rules, all you need is a player, "regardless of nationality or age, has been registered with any club associated with the Football Association ilinogometni Association of Wales for the period, continuous or not, three entire seasons or 36 months before his 21st birthday ".
OK, sorry, I'm sure like most fans simply thought the home would mean the British - or at least someone who could one day be in a position to play for the three Lions of England! Well, I'm sorry! The new rules obviously makes Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas domestic players. Great!
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