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Hard to come into a heated battle cold, few mistakrs early but played out the injury time well

I suppose the point is that we have an immigration system that prioritises foreign workers where they fit a need in our society. We do need more seasonal farm workers, we don't have a shortage of people wanting to be professional footballers. For the kind of people who write things like 'bloody...

Do they have to win it? Runners up or semis not good enough for the ranking points?

We got over £100m in premier league money last year, pretty safe to say it came from that

Under different ownership, say by an Italian or Portuguese consortium, there would be a lot of attention give to a premier league club using its millions to buy a player to play for the owner's other club. Its pretty apparent that this signing is benefiting USG immensely and BHA barely at all...

Percy Tau was bought with Brighton's money

He's 24, cost many millions, and can't get a work permit for us the whole time he is at USG. I don't see that benefit for Brighton

..win for Brighton is what exactly?

Which would essentially means Brighton's money is being used to buy players for a Belgian club. What should we think about that?

I read it was the top 6 european leagues and top 2 central/south American. So its the premier league, serie a, ligue 1, bundesliga, la liga, brasileiro serie a and liga mx, plus one more euro league I haven't seen specified. Netherlands, turkey and Argentina leagues are the secondary leagues...

Of course all these rules and points systems regarding work permits mean absolutely nothing if you can convince the Exceptions Panel to make an exception. As someone else noted he is South Africa's Footballer of the Season, Players' Player of the Season and joint Top Scorer of the Season, and...

Percy is a regular for South Africa already. If they were ranked in the top 50 he would likely get his work permit. But they are 83rd or thereabouts so he can't qualify for a work permit on caps. He could qualify for a work permit if he commanded a high transfer fee, was getting a high salary...

Well hopefully somewhere where he will start accruing the experience needed to get him a work permit. So not in the Belgian second division.

do the Belgians just give passports out? are they known for that?

How would he gain the criteria needed by playing in Belgium? They don't count as a top league or secondary league, nor is USG going to be playing in the Europa league, so the only way he'd gain the criteria needed is for South Africa to climb the rankings.

I assume this is true of the many similar transfers that premier league clubs make every season but then fail to get work permits, so I hope its true here. However its very hard to see any way he can get one based on either the objective or subjective categories I posted earlier - unless, and...

There's plenty of players who are denied work permits to England for whom the club fight hard, several every season judging by a google search. Arsenal wanted to sign Yaya Toure in 2003 but couldn't get a work permit - what a perfect replacement for Vieira he would have been. Most of these...

How can we possibly get a work permit for him? He doesn't automatically qualify for a GBE through international participation as SA outside top 50, so it goes to the exceptions panel "If a player scores at least five points under both the Part A and Part B criteria, the Panel may grant a GBE...