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100% of Chelsea's starting 11 are foreigners. Not even 1 is

Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:34 pm

100% of Chelsea's starting 11 are foreigners. Not even 1 is from the home countries. How can Chelsea be called an English team or represent England in Europe? Feels not right to me.

Re: 100% of Chelsea's starting 11 are foreigners. Not even 1

Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:53 pm

I understand what you are saying but neither has arsenal, unless you class Ramsey as being english ? Tbh it’s because most english players aren’t good enough for the top teams and the ones that are good enough are massively overpriced compared to players with similar ability which aren’t english

Re: 100% of Chelsea's starting 11 are foreigners. Not even 1

Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:53 pm

Well their no rules saying you have to have any so nothing wrong with it. You could argue their should be a min number implemented as their is in some other leagues. However that also has consequences for example look at the likes of Russia where it just means the best Russian players can demand ludicrously high wages as they know the teams need them.

Re: 100% of Chelsea's starting 11 are foreigners. Not even 1

Sat Sep 15, 2018 3:01 pm

for me it's not an issue. Put it this way, you want t try and win the Champions League wih British?! No chance!

Re: 100% of Chelsea's starting 11 are foreigners. Not even 1

Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:24 pm

Hate to break it to you, but not one of our starting 11 was Welsh

Re: 100% of Chelsea's starting 11 are foreigners. Not even 1

Sat Sep 15, 2018 8:25 pm

Hadn't happened for 52 years but now it'd happened twice in 2 games.

Re: 100% of Chelsea's starting 11 are foreigners. Not even 1

Sat Sep 15, 2018 9:17 pm

Even more of a reason to let "Home " players go on loan .

Re: 100% of Chelsea's starting 11 are foreigners. Not even 1

Sat Sep 15, 2018 9:35 pm

Forever Blue wrote:100% of Chelsea's starting 11 are foreigners. Not even 1 is from the home countries. How can Chelsea be called an English team or represent England in Europe? Feels not right to me.


Just shows how we have used the transfer market poorly this summer maybe? Doesn't bother me where they are from if they are good enough.

Re: 100% of Chelsea's starting 11 are foreigners. Not even 1

Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:01 am

ffs wrote:Hate to break it to you, but not one of our starting 11 was Welsh


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Not even 1 is from the home countries