I liked it better when teams represented the style of play of the country they are based on. Now every team is full of foreign managers and foreign players. I think the foreign player limit maintained a sense of identity associated with each club. It forces you to develop your own talent, and the fans are always going to be more into it when players are from the same country as them. Now we rarely ever see teams develop talent.

  • murtenfindthebird@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This year there was a case like this in Belgium and France.

    RWDM Molenbeek, a team that just promoted to the first league bought a 19y old talent for 30 million to everyone’s surprise, smashing the record for highest incoming transfer in the league. RWDM Molenbeek belongs to Group OL Lyon

    In reality, this was actually a transfer for OL Lyon who could not buy him due to FFP and they instantly loaned him out to them. RWDM didn’t even announce the signing of the ‘new’ player. How this is possible, is beyond me. Just purely fraudulent and blatantly breaching FFP in my opinion.