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Re: Well, I think the main obstacle is the EU and Bosman rules. jh Send a noteboard - 16/09/2009 06:36:22 PM
And nobody I know wants that. However, you have a very valid point.


If we consider for a moment the way things used to be, there could have been an English draft for English teams and so on for other leagues.
At the European level teams would play with whatever they have because it wouldn't make sense to have a different team just for the CL.
Of course I don't entirely understand how the draft works either :P Teams can also get foreign players through the draft somehow.
If you try to accomodate the rule changes since the Bosman act, and lower divisions it becomes more complicated. But there are people who get paid and could figure it out.
Just imagine even the Scottish league. If the talent was spread out between all the teams instead of just two. The level may drop but it really doesn't matter because it's all relative anyway. I could get some guys from the street and call them Brazil and people will ooh and ah every touch.

This may seem far fetched but all it takes is for one league to implement it. Like the way the 'Russian rule' was implemented in European basketball ( which you may not be aware of :P )


What I meant was that in the american system, they have closed leagues, no team goes up into the league, and no teams drops out. In that kind of system, it is easy for a finite number of teams who all have decent economic resources to agree that "when that player is on the market, he can't play for any other team than mine", whereas in other countries, the possibility that the teams involved will change will necessarily invalidate such agreements.

But yeah, the bosman thing is to be blamed...
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