Man Utd and Arsenal managers clash over foreign player quotas</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>LONDON (AFP) - Sir Alex Ferguson has lent his support to FIFA's plans to limit the number of foreign players in each team -- and he feels that title rivals Arsenal would protest the loudest at such a rule. FIFA president Sepp Blatter has announced he will lobby for restrictions on the number of foreign players in each team. But while Manchester United manager Ferguson believes it would help boost home-based players, his Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger labelled it a "ridiculous plan", and one which has been designed to promote national teams but will not improve international football. "It's certainly not wrong that clubs should be seen to have a proportion of home-based players," the Manchester United manager said. "I totally agree (with Blatter) but it would be a problem for a club like Arsenal. That's why they'll protest the loudest. "You want to protect your own, and there is nothing wrong with that. But, for the good of the game in England, it would be good to see more home-based players at the top clubs. "United's critics would say 'It's all right for you, you already have English players in your side'. But I think if you asked a neutral, they would rather see more home-based players." He added: "Under the present Treaty of Rome you couldn't make it law. It would have to be an agreement between the clubs. But if it went to a vote, I think it would get through [even though] there would be opposition from clubs like Liverpool and Arsenal, who have strong Spanish and French connections. "It would certainly be a contentious issue but I agree with the principle of it." Wenger has also expressed his views on the topic in Arsenal's club magazine, and feels no coach "at the highest level" would think it is a good idea. "I find the whole proposal completely ridiculous," he said. "The thinking behind it, I believe, is to protect the national teams. But it won't protect the best players, it will protect the mediocre ones and you don't win a World Cup with mediocre players, you win it with world-class ones. "The best English players - the Rooneys, the Owens, the Gerrards, the Lampards - they are all playing for their clubs anyway. "FIFA are wrong if they think this will improve international football. Look at rugby for example. The Argentina national team - all their players play in Europe, and the national team takes advantage of that. Had they all stayed in Argentina, would they have made the semi-finals? "To mix the best with the best makes everyone better. "I am worried that it could happen. I would say that it's more than 50 percent likely to be brought in. "FIFA is powerful enough to implement the rule internally, if (Sepp) Blatter has the support of the council and his committees. Will it go through or not, I do not know but it looks as though it could." Ferguson meanwhile called on FIFA to bring in stricter rules to regulate player agents. In an interview in the club magazine, Inside United, he said: "I think we need a tariff for agents that brings them in line with other professions, like lawyers or accountants. "Agents need to be regulated in a far stricter way than they have been in the past. "They are a very lucky breed because as long as you have greedy club presidents, agents will always be in the driving seat. But if world football recognises the need for regulation, that would make a real difference. "The set up has to be more professional."</div></p>
<font face="Arial" size="2">I hope they do get the quota limit of about 5 players per team seems fair enough and loads of other leagues do it</font></p>
<font face="Arial" size="2">other league do it minorly allready but even you would have to admit arsenal will go down hill if it pulls through</font></p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (man_u_barmy_army)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> <font face="Arial" size="2">other league do it minorly allready but even you would have to admit arsenal will go down hill if it pulls through</font></p> </div></p> It depends when this Quota would go through. If clubs had a lets say 5 year warning then Arsenal's Youth system can do us proud and It will mean Wenger can scan England for Young talent</p> </p>
<font face="Arial" size="2">but if it happens in a years time arsenal will fall and maybe chelsea</font></p>
They need a limit but like Max said the EPL would go down hill if it happens. The top players in the EPL are all foreigners.</p>
<font face="Arial" size="2">yea but some quoto should be put on as not a whole team can be called star players</font></p>
<font face="Arial" size="2">that would suit fine put i was thinking 5 exactly as 6 to 7 would have little effect</font></p>
This is absolutely rubbish. This is like handing out oak, and mahogany furniture, and then in a few years saying, "Oh, you can't have oak anymore."</p> (LOL! Where the hell did that analogy come from?)</p>
<font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">i haven't thought about it before i suppose so but nothing will be done in that sense as other countries have done the same</font></p>
<font face="Arial">We played half our reserves aswell, anyway back on topic.</font></p> <font face="Arial">Liverpool</font></p> <font face="Arial">Carson</font></p> <font face="Arial">Finnan CarrAgger Aurelio</font></p> <font face="Arial">Pennant Gerrard Alonso Kewell</font></p> <font face="Arial">Crouch Torres</font></p> <font face="Arial">That's five english and we can bring another one in because they have to give us at least 1 transfer window notice.</font></p>
