With them included, we pretty much have a starting 11 plus subs missing from match day squads. Really significant and shows our strength in depth too that we can miss all them players and still field a world class team.
You can only include players that are playing but add caveats for context. It does feel like we have quite a few injured at the moment but you'd have to research if it's more than average. We are in a new era though, last night AC Milan started with more English players than some Premier League sides do. They brought English developed and former England youth international Yunus Musah on from the bench as well. In the Premier League dual nationals declaring for other nations is also bringing down the numbers. It would be interesting to see this week's numbers if you included defected duals.
Defected Duals who started last weekend Matty Cash (Scotland) Jeffrey Schlupp (Ghana) Harry Wilson (Wales) Amari’i Bell (Jamaica) Jacob Brown (Scotland) Scott McTominay (Scotland) Tariq Lamptey (Ghana) Oli McBurnie (Scotland) Michail Antonio (Jamaica) Erling Halland (Norway) Ethan Pinnock (Jamaica) Robert Sanchez (Spain) Ola Aina (Nigeria) Anthony Elanga (Sweden) Josh Cullen (Ireland) Came on as subs Tom Cairney (Scotland) Bobby De Cordova - Reid (Jamaica) Alex Iwobi (Nigeria) Calvin Bassey (Nigeria) Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu (DR Congo) Even Ferguson (Ireland) Brennan Johnson (Wales) Oliver Norwood (Northern Ireland) David Brooks (Wales) On Bench Tyrese Francois (Australia) Adam Davies (Wales) Antoine Semenyo (Ghana)
In terms of Pl Clubs EA 2024 gives the following players the highest rating of their club squad in the PL Pickford (Everton) Foderingham (Sheffield United) - Joint Redmond (Burnley) Eze (Crystal Palace) Dunk (Brighton) Giles and Barkley (And others) - Luton At Arsenal Saka is second highest At Aston Villa Watkins is joint sixth highest. At Chelsea James is joint second highest At Liverpool Alexander - Arnold is joint fourth highest At Man City Grealish, Foden and Stones are joint seventh highest At Man United Rashford is joint third highest At Newcastle Trippier is second highest At Nottingham Forrest Gibbs - White is joint Fifth highest At Spurs Maddison is joint second highest At West Ham Bowen is joint second highest At Wolves Dawson is joint sixth highest At Fulham Adarabioyo is joint fourth highest At Brentford Mee is joint second highest At Bournemouth Solanke and Tavernier are joint seventh highest In the WSL Mead (Arsenal) Neville (Spurs Earps (Man United) Daly (Aston Villa) Hemp (Man City) - Joint Bentley - Bristol City At Chelsea Bright is joint fourth highest At Brighton Robinson is joint eighth highest At West Ham Stringer is joint seventh highest At Everton Duggan is joint third highest At Leicester Whelan is joint second highest At Liverpool Fisk is third highest Harry Kane is the highest ranked player in the Bundesliga Lucy Bronze is the the highest ranked Right Back with Alexander - Arnold second ranked and highest male right back,
Only one English eligible starter for Nottingham Forrest and Fulham this afternoon. No English eligible players on the Fulham bench.
No English eligible starters at Brentford today. Three on the bench. Meanwhile Six English starters for Everton and five on the bench.
English eligible player watch Premier League 23/24 Matchday 1 - 64/220 = 29.09% Matchday 2 - 58/198 = 29.2% ( Luton v Burnley tbc ) Matchday 3 - 57/220 = 25.9% Matchday 4 - 59/220 = 26.8% Matchday 5 - 64/220 = 29.09% Matchday 6 - 61/220 = 27.7%
https://x.com/DalglishPaul/status/1706930552501145948?s=20 Interesting perspective on the flaws of our youth system. It also really highlights how relying on the loan system for you development will result in more talents being lost than gained.
Second teams would never be approved here. We have a much stronger lower leagues with clubs with tens of thousands fans several leagues below the PL.
I’m not saying they would be, nor am I suggesting they should be. I’m just pointing out that the loan system is not to be relied upon like we do currently.
The issue is what else. Mandatory playing time for youth in the PL? Can’t see the clubs being keen to agree to that and it would make the players targets for their fans if they didn’t perform well but were required to play because of rules.
The EPPP for a start. The top young players being hoarded by the clubs who can offer them the least game time is what leads to excessive loans in the first place.
True but equally the EPPP has helped the development of players in terms of getting the best coaches and support staff.
It has its positives but combined with Brexit regulations the level of talent hoarding by big clubs has goten way out of hand and is now clearly going to become/is already becoming a massive issue for youth development in this country.
There should really be caps on how many players can be in academies. It'd be one way to stop the hoarding. Chelsea for example have a 26 man under 18 squad, and a further 24 in their under 21 squad. That's not even including anyone out on loan, or that their premier league 2 teams usually involve players from their bloated first team squad. It's a truly absurd amount to have between the groups, there's really no justification for it - its really just factory farming of the academy system to help with financial fair play.
It’s genuinely disgraceful and there’s a real inhumane element to treating young players like assets for profit like that.
Livramento, Hall and Miley all start for Newcastle. Lewis and Phillips for City. Massive game for a full debut for Miley aged 17!