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Originally Posted by Stew  Ben Foster
Gary Neville Rio Ferdinand Wes Brown Patrice Evra
Cristiano Ronaldo Michael Carrick Owen Hargreaves Paul Scholes Nani
Wayne Rooney
That's only three foreign players, they could easily put Anderson, Vidić or Tévez in there too. |
Come to think of it, if we assume that a player has to stay in the UK for 5 years to be nationalised then we can include those players too for the sake of argument, Chelsea's team:
Carlo Cudicini (Nationalised)
Paulo Ferreira John Terry Ricardo Carvalho Ashley Cole
Shaun Wright-Phillips Frank Lampard Steve Sidwell Joe Cole
Didier Drogba Nicolas Anelka
It isn't
that bad.
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Originally Posted by Kenny Everett just to be a bugger....
If say we had an player who was born in england but had irish parents yet had never represented either country at international level..... how would that work  Could he play as a national in either an english or irish team? |
See, on thinking about it in my last example there of the Chelsea team, I'd assume that players who've been resident in the country for five years (for the UK system) and are naturalised would count as non-foreign players. I think in Celtic's case we would get away with Scott McDonald, for example, plus Arsenal's system then of bringing in young talent would result in the 16-year old players being able to play as naturalised English players when they hit 21/22 no problem!
