I'm not saying its a weakness. Its hard to know when hardly any Englishman play for the top 6 clubs - which is my point.
I have no idea if Balogun is better than Goldson either. But if we'd have kept Goldson he would have being playing in our first team now. Hence a promising English player is...
We're going to have to agree to disagree on this.
In the 60s and 70s, teams were far less polarised. There was no top 6. Man U and Spurs were playing in the old division 2. Division 1 was won by Arsenal, Derby, Leeds, Liverpool and Forest.
Apart from the notable exception of Leicester, money...
You are making highly selective arguments there.
Firstly - there wasn’t one. Not one Englishman started for Chelsea at the weekend. How can that in any way be right? In fact how many English players started at the so called top six at the weekend? Most of the top games in Premier League are...