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How might Brexit affect the Brighton squad?



shaolinpunk

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Nov 28, 2005
7,187
Brighton
With news that the new instalment of Football Manager will include various Brexit possibilities, it got me thinking; how could it affect the Albion?

From an article about FM17 and Brexit in The Telegraph:
There are three main scenarios:
1: Soft Brexit - free movement of workers remains.
2: Footballers are granted the same special exemptions that are currently given to ‘entertainers’. This means it is easier for them to obtain work permits than other people, and it will not have a huge impact on player movement from the EU.
3: Hard Brexit: similar rules to those which currently apply to non-EU players are adopted for all non-UK players.
The points system makes it easier to obtain a work permit for a non-EU-based player if they are in the top 25 per cent of earners at a club or in a league, if they have a large transfer fee or if they play for a major international team. But applying hard Brexit-like rules would have serious implications on who would be eligible for a move into the Premier League.
4. There is also the option that sees us adopt a system like Italy’s, where there is a limit on the number of non-EU players in each squad. The limit of non-UK players that British clubs are allowed could range from anything as high as 17 to as low as four.
If you only had four non-UK players per squad, that’s going to make things difficult. All of a sudden Championship-quality players are moving into the Premier League to fill up slots. That could mean the overall quality drops, and that means the TV money goes down.
Meanwhile, transfer fees go up: foreign players are worth more to British clubs because you need to make sure you make the most of those four slots, and the best British players become more valuable, and so more expensive, too.


If it is one of the latter stricter options, that will shake things up here. We presumably wouldn't be able to pick up an undiscovered gem on the cheap from abroad like we did with Ulloa. Would we have been able to sign Kayal? Hemed? Knockaert? Bruno?
One would assume our best British players would become more valuable and much more in demand - Dunk, March and Stephens would be gone quickly.
 


The Birdman

New member
Nov 30, 2008
6,313
Haywards Heath
I voted to stay however we are a good two years away from leaving a don't think we should worry about the effect on players yet more important issues at stake.
I accept the decision of the pepole so we need to give Teresa may the time and the surport as we need to work together and hold our nerve it's going to be difficult but let's not keep accusing each other what was said before the referendum but work to achive what the British Pepole voted for which was for various different reasons. That means let's not go back to the bad old days of strikes and bad management .
We have to except change and get on with building a stronger great Britain.
 


pastafarian

Well-known member
Sep 4, 2011
11,902
Sussex
whatever the outcome of leaving i hope it gives preference to home grown players staying in the game and progressing.Far too many are discarded and chucked on the scrap heap in preference of an established guy from europe or beyond. This surely must not be allowed to be acceptable anymore. Its lazy to give up on this home grown talent.
there must be a compromise somewhere of a specific number of foreign players mixed with home grown lads
 


The Birdman

New member
Nov 30, 2008
6,313
Haywards Heath
whatever the outcome of leaving i hope it gives preference to home grown players staying in the game and progressing.Far too many are discarded and chucked on the scrap heap in preference of an established guy from europe or beyond. This surely must not be allowed to be acceptable anymore. Its lazy to give up on this home grown talent.
there must be a compromise somewhere of a specific number of foreign players mixed with home grown lads
yes let's hope TB investment into the Accadamy starts producing some home grown players.
 


BigGully

Well-known member
Sep 8, 2006
7,139
whatever the outcome of leaving i hope it gives preference to home grown players staying in the game and progressing.Far too many are discarded and chucked on the scrap heap in preference of an established guy from europe or beyond. This surely must not be allowed to be acceptable anymore. Its lazy to give up on this home grown talent.
there must be a compromise somewhere of a specific number of foreign players mixed with home grown lads

I agree, worth noting that nearly all our foreign players would have been offered similar opportunites denied to our own home grown players at some stage of their career, if you could take a peek at our talented and experienced first team players, someone somewhere gave them the benefit of the doubt and they prospered by it.
 


Mental Lental

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
2,271
Shiki-shi, Saitama
With news that the new instalment of Football Manager will include various Brexit possibilities, it got me thinking; how could it affect the Albion?

From an article about FM17 and Brexit in The Telegraph:
There are three main scenarios:
1: Soft Brexit - free movement of workers remains.
2: Footballers are granted the same special exemptions that are currently given to ‘entertainers’. This means it is easier for them to obtain work permits than other people, and it will not have a huge impact on player movement from the EU.
3: Hard Brexit: similar rules to those which currently apply to non-EU players are adopted for all non-UK players.
The points system makes it easier to obtain a work permit for a non-EU-based player if they are in the top 25 per cent of earners at a club or in a league, if they have a large transfer fee or if they play for a major international team. But applying hard Brexit-like rules would have serious implications on who would be eligible for a move into the Premier League.
4. There is also the option that sees us adopt a system like Italy’s, where there is a limit on the number of non-EU players in each squad. The limit of non-UK players that British clubs are allowed could range from anything as high as 17 to as low as four.
If you only had four non-UK players per squad, that’s going to make things difficult. All of a sudden Championship-quality players are moving into the Premier League to fill up slots. That could mean the overall quality drops, and that means the TV money goes down.
Meanwhile, transfer fees go up: foreign players are worth more to British clubs because you need to make sure you make the most of those four slots, and the best British players become more valuable, and so more expensive, too.


If it is one of the latter stricter options, that will shake things up here. We presumably wouldn't be able to pick up an undiscovered gem on the cheap from abroad like we did with Ulloa. Would we have been able to sign Kayal? Hemed? Knockaert? Bruno?
One would assume our best British players would become more valuable and much more in demand - Dunk, March and Stephens would be gone quickly.

If option 2 came about it would actually reduce the restrictions on non-EU players as well and thus we could see even more foreign players coming in. I know in FM there are a shit load of decent South American wonderkids who you can't sign due to work permit issues.
 



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