Post by QPR Report on May 18, 2010 6:23:18 GMT
Not 100% sure I understand exactly the requirements, but interesting how it's going to impact on clubs: Premiership and then trickling down to the Championship
Guardian/Daniel Taylor
City woo Stephen Ireland and Wright-Phillips to meet 'homegrown' rule• City manager keen to placate English wantaways
• Clubs must have eight homegrown players in 25-man squad
Roberto Mancini's plans for an extensive recruitment programme at Manchester City, with James Milner and Fernando Torres the main targets, will be accompanied by attempts behind the scenes to placate disaffected players such as Stephen Ireland and Shaun Wright‑Phillips in the light of the Premier League's new 'homegrown rule'.
While Mancini has received the financial backing of the Abu Dhabi United Group to target players for a sustained challenge in next season's Premier League, City's immense spending power is offset by the knowledge they will have to include eight homegrown footballers in a 25-man squad to be submitted at the end of the August transfer window.
Ireland has already informed the club's chief executive, Garry Cook, and the football administrator, Brian Marwood, that he may leave and has spoken publicly of there being "a lot of frustration bottled up because I have not played as much as I would have liked". That disclosure prompted Mancini to say the midfielder needed to "change his head".
Nedum Onuoha, an England Under‑21 international, has similar grievances to Ireland and spoke at the weekend of his frustrations with the Mancini regime – "the new manager came in and I don't think he liked me," he said – whereas Wright-Phillips has been locked in a contract dispute. His father, the former Arsenal striker Ian Wright, has accused Marwood and Cook of "mugging him off" and "treating him like a youth-team player".
In ordinary circumstances City would allow all three to leave, but the change in rules was agreed last September, in the words of the Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, to demonstrate to the big-spending clubs that "you just can't buy a team from abroad".
As such, City will again try to agree new terms with Wright-Phillips, talks having broken down in March when he asked to join the band of players earning close to £100,000 a week.Wright-Phillips is on £60,000 a week and City, having offered to increase that to £70,000, were unwilling to go higher for a player who will be 30 when his current deal expires in two years.Ireland and Onuoha will also be told that the club will allow them to leave only if the players are adamant about it. Ireland was City's player of the year two seasons ago andhas a long list of admirers, while Aston Villa are monitoring Onuoha's potential availability and Sunderland are considering a £3m offer.
As for Milner, reports of a £24m bid being imminent are not true, but the England internationa and newly crowned Young Footballer of the Yearl figures prominently in City's planning. and the club are holding internal discussions to work out the best strategy to persuade Villa to sell
www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/may/17/roberto-mancini-stephen-ireland-manchester-city
Guardian/Daniel Taylor
City woo Stephen Ireland and Wright-Phillips to meet 'homegrown' rule• City manager keen to placate English wantaways
• Clubs must have eight homegrown players in 25-man squad
Roberto Mancini's plans for an extensive recruitment programme at Manchester City, with James Milner and Fernando Torres the main targets, will be accompanied by attempts behind the scenes to placate disaffected players such as Stephen Ireland and Shaun Wright‑Phillips in the light of the Premier League's new 'homegrown rule'.
While Mancini has received the financial backing of the Abu Dhabi United Group to target players for a sustained challenge in next season's Premier League, City's immense spending power is offset by the knowledge they will have to include eight homegrown footballers in a 25-man squad to be submitted at the end of the August transfer window.
Ireland has already informed the club's chief executive, Garry Cook, and the football administrator, Brian Marwood, that he may leave and has spoken publicly of there being "a lot of frustration bottled up because I have not played as much as I would have liked". That disclosure prompted Mancini to say the midfielder needed to "change his head".
Nedum Onuoha, an England Under‑21 international, has similar grievances to Ireland and spoke at the weekend of his frustrations with the Mancini regime – "the new manager came in and I don't think he liked me," he said – whereas Wright-Phillips has been locked in a contract dispute. His father, the former Arsenal striker Ian Wright, has accused Marwood and Cook of "mugging him off" and "treating him like a youth-team player".
In ordinary circumstances City would allow all three to leave, but the change in rules was agreed last September, in the words of the Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, to demonstrate to the big-spending clubs that "you just can't buy a team from abroad".
As such, City will again try to agree new terms with Wright-Phillips, talks having broken down in March when he asked to join the band of players earning close to £100,000 a week.Wright-Phillips is on £60,000 a week and City, having offered to increase that to £70,000, were unwilling to go higher for a player who will be 30 when his current deal expires in two years.Ireland and Onuoha will also be told that the club will allow them to leave only if the players are adamant about it. Ireland was City's player of the year two seasons ago andhas a long list of admirers, while Aston Villa are monitoring Onuoha's potential availability and Sunderland are considering a £3m offer.
As for Milner, reports of a £24m bid being imminent are not true, but the England internationa and newly crowned Young Footballer of the Yearl figures prominently in City's planning. and the club are holding internal discussions to work out the best strategy to persuade Villa to sell
www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/may/17/roberto-mancini-stephen-ireland-manchester-city