Yeah now he looks like Shrek meets Harry Potter lol but we might miss him for these two qualifiers, hopefully not though.
Here's another article, on the first day of the new season, teams selected fewer English players than ever before!
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing
The problem is that the numbers go down every year, we do have rules in which means you have to have a certain amount of British players in your squad but they don't have to play. So basically the rule is pointless! I saw this coming years ago, the first major instance was when Arsenal played in the champions league and didn't field a single British player! So this club that's representing England in Euro doesn't have a single British player playing? This is now happening everywhere expect there's normally a couple of home grown talent.
This is one reason why i'm quite proud to support utd, we put a lot into youth development and the youngsters that come through generally get in with a shout at getting a place. I also like the fact that when we do buy we do buy a lot of British players, in the last few seasons we've bought
Phil Jone
Chris Smalling
Ashley Young
Wilfried Zaha
Nick Powell
And we've promoted these players to the first squad
Larnell Cole
Jesse Lingard
Michael Keane
Ben Amos
Now i'm not being all like utd are amazing and everyone else sucks, i just don't know the ins and outs of other teams.
Basically something needs to happen and it needs to happen fast because i feel we're going to start dropping behind in Europe (clubs) when we were so dominant a few years ago. In 2008 3 of the 4 teams in the semi final of the champions league were English, now this year we can't even get a team into the quarter finals for the first time since 1996! So basically, we're not using home grown talent and we're still going no where. Football in this country is on the decline, club and country.
Hopefully Friday will prove me wrong but then it is Moldova (no offence)