Now Wenger is a manager I'd love to take over England !!
I am a Liverpool fan and as well as go to the game I also go and watch our youth team (Under 18's) when they are playing at home.
We have some great talent down there. Benitez has been buying the best young talent around Europe for about the last 18 months. He must have signed about 15 players.
Now our local lads that are at the Academy have to compete against these foreign guys to get into the team and then moved up to the reserves and then first team. Most of them end up playing in the lower divisions, as they aren't good enough or better than the foreigners. If one is then they make it...ie ..Gerrard, Carragher, Owen, Fowler, Mcmanaman.
Now if there is a crop down there where there are no english lads good enough, then I as a fan wouldn't want us to promote them to the first team just because they are British. All that would mean is that when we came up against European teams in Competition, we would have inferior players and be beaten. I personally think that Wenger is right and if you want to make it as a player you have to be better than the foreign lads at the academy's. This would and should translate to the national team when we play the same foreign lads that our players have proved they are better than.
Also a manger at club level would be sacked if he tried out the young english lads and he wasn't succesful.
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