Post by QPR Report on Sept 4, 2009 11:31:04 GMT
Football Fan Census - # English Premier League is 'most cosmopolitan division'
3 September 2009
The English Premier League contains a bigger proportion of foreign players than any other elite division in European football, it has emerged.
According to figures cited by the Sun, almost 60 per cent of English Premier League players are now foreign, compared with a European average of 42.6 per cent.
Liverpool were shown to be the continent's most cosmopolitan football club, with their overseas player contingent accounting for 90 per cent of their 2008-09 squad.
The football survey also found that the proportion of foreign players plying their trade with the top five clubs in England currently stands at 72.4 per cent.
However, figures such as Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon have expressed fears that recent tax increases and the high value of the euro could begin to lure top foreign players away from the English Premier League.
Speaking in Monaco last week, he said: "When you talk about the income tax going from 40 per cent to 50 per cent and the euro exchange rate going from 1.47 [to the pound] which it was five years ago to below 1.20, you don't have to be in football to understand - that's just a general economic industry issue."
Written by Terry Mitchell
www.footballfanscensus.com/football-industry-news/go/item/19345436
3 September 2009
The English Premier League contains a bigger proportion of foreign players than any other elite division in European football, it has emerged.
According to figures cited by the Sun, almost 60 per cent of English Premier League players are now foreign, compared with a European average of 42.6 per cent.
Liverpool were shown to be the continent's most cosmopolitan football club, with their overseas player contingent accounting for 90 per cent of their 2008-09 squad.
The football survey also found that the proportion of foreign players plying their trade with the top five clubs in England currently stands at 72.4 per cent.
However, figures such as Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon have expressed fears that recent tax increases and the high value of the euro could begin to lure top foreign players away from the English Premier League.
Speaking in Monaco last week, he said: "When you talk about the income tax going from 40 per cent to 50 per cent and the euro exchange rate going from 1.47 [to the pound] which it was five years ago to below 1.20, you don't have to be in football to understand - that's just a general economic industry issue."
Written by Terry Mitchell
www.footballfanscensus.com/football-industry-news/go/item/19345436