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With customers already pissed off that they need to pay more subscriptions to multiple TV / Net companies and still not get to see every game , will this finally cause the Premier League money train to crash.
I must admit I think Clarke makes a very sensible argument to promote young English talent
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...lubs-and-fa-poles-apart-over-brexit-rmnsz7rvk
Serious differences have emerged between the Premier League and the FA over work permits for European Union players after Brexit, it can be revealed.
The Premier League wants any foreign player who is given a contract and included in a 25-man first-team squad to be eligible for a work permit — a change that would also make it much easier for non-EU nationals to join clubs in England’s top flight.
Club chairmen are fearful that imposing the same rules on European players that non-EU players now face would leave the Premier League at a huge disadvantage compared with European rivals. Had such rules been in place, players such as Riyad Mahrez, N’Golo Kanté and Laurent Koscielny would not have qualified for permits when they were signed by English clubs.
The FA, and in particular Greg Clarke, its chairman, hopes Brexit will increase the opportunities given to English players and reduce the influx of “journeymen” players.
Talks between football’s stakeholders are said to have been constructive without the bitterness that has overshadowed some areas of dispute in the past, but there is still considerable distance between the positions of the FA and the Premier League. One source close to the negotiations told The Times: “On the work-permit issue they are still poles apart.”
An FA spokeswoman said: “We continue to have constructive conversations about the impact of Brexit on football with all the parties involved.”
Under existing immigration rules, non-EU players have to secure a governing body endorsement (GBE) to receive a permit, using a points-based system relating to a player’s transfer fee, wages, international caps and his national team’s Fifa ranking.
The Premier League wants that to be scrapped and replaced with what would be an effective exemption that would allow a permit for any overseas player offered a contract.
That would do little to help promote opportunities for young English players, and arguably would promote more overseas arrivals by opening the door to young South American and African players who, as things stand, cannot get a permit until they win senior international caps.
The FA does understand the value of the Premier League clubs to its own TV rights and, as previously revealed by The Times, as part of its attempts to reach an agreement has also proposed an overhaul of the loan system that would limit loans between top-flight clubs to British and Irish players after Brexit.
Last year, Clarke spelt out his vision of English football post-Brexit, saying: “What we want to do is find a sensible way round that works for a post-Brexit Britain, that works for employment law and the government, and works for the Premier League and works for the FA.
“It won’t be an open-door policy; it won’t be no foreigners; it will be, ‘Let’s let world-class Premier League teams bring in world-class players but not average international players.’
“There has to be sensible centre ground where world-class players are welcomed in the Premier League but not journeymen who are displacing the young English talent coming through and are hopefully the future of the English national game and the international game and can’t get in the first team.”
I must admit I think Clarke makes a very sensible argument to promote young English talent
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...lubs-and-fa-poles-apart-over-brexit-rmnsz7rvk
Serious differences have emerged between the Premier League and the FA over work permits for European Union players after Brexit, it can be revealed.
The Premier League wants any foreign player who is given a contract and included in a 25-man first-team squad to be eligible for a work permit — a change that would also make it much easier for non-EU nationals to join clubs in England’s top flight.
Club chairmen are fearful that imposing the same rules on European players that non-EU players now face would leave the Premier League at a huge disadvantage compared with European rivals. Had such rules been in place, players such as Riyad Mahrez, N’Golo Kanté and Laurent Koscielny would not have qualified for permits when they were signed by English clubs.
The FA, and in particular Greg Clarke, its chairman, hopes Brexit will increase the opportunities given to English players and reduce the influx of “journeymen” players.
Talks between football’s stakeholders are said to have been constructive without the bitterness that has overshadowed some areas of dispute in the past, but there is still considerable distance between the positions of the FA and the Premier League. One source close to the negotiations told The Times: “On the work-permit issue they are still poles apart.”
An FA spokeswoman said: “We continue to have constructive conversations about the impact of Brexit on football with all the parties involved.”
Under existing immigration rules, non-EU players have to secure a governing body endorsement (GBE) to receive a permit, using a points-based system relating to a player’s transfer fee, wages, international caps and his national team’s Fifa ranking.
The Premier League wants that to be scrapped and replaced with what would be an effective exemption that would allow a permit for any overseas player offered a contract.
That would do little to help promote opportunities for young English players, and arguably would promote more overseas arrivals by opening the door to young South American and African players who, as things stand, cannot get a permit until they win senior international caps.
The FA does understand the value of the Premier League clubs to its own TV rights and, as previously revealed by The Times, as part of its attempts to reach an agreement has also proposed an overhaul of the loan system that would limit loans between top-flight clubs to British and Irish players after Brexit.
Last year, Clarke spelt out his vision of English football post-Brexit, saying: “What we want to do is find a sensible way round that works for a post-Brexit Britain, that works for employment law and the government, and works for the Premier League and works for the FA.
“It won’t be an open-door policy; it won’t be no foreigners; it will be, ‘Let’s let world-class Premier League teams bring in world-class players but not average international players.’
“There has to be sensible centre ground where world-class players are welcomed in the Premier League but not journeymen who are displacing the young English talent coming through and are hopefully the future of the English national game and the international game and can’t get in the first team.”