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redfiona99His article here - http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/feelfootball/article/1425/
Now normally whenever a journalist publishes his flights of fancy (or articles as I think they prefer to call them), I try to at least see where they're coming from. This time it's impossible, because he's cherry-picking his examples.
Harry Redknapp has bought 7 English players unlike everyone else who is buying foreign. Mr. White's hypothesis is that this is unusual and it's rarity is because managers increasingly believe English players aren't good enough.
What he's missing, or chosing not to report is that 1) Harry Redknapp is a wheeler-dealer and only buys cheap players and 2) Chelski, the club he is buying a lot of these English players from, are one of the few clubs who can afford to sell players at a loss.
Because the reason managers buy foreign is that they're cheaper, or, if they're not, the same price buys a higher quality. Compare £10 million for Berbatov to £16 million for Darren Bent. Makalele for £16 million to £14 million for Michael Carrick.
English players are almost always over-priced.
The players he uses as examples of where this isn't fair are all goalkeepers and while I've yet to figure out why more team aren't clamouring for Scott Carson and Ben Foster, they're merely victims of this. Because goalies are the only players who's prices aren't hype inflated (because the press doesn't care about them) but if a manager has already stopped looking in England then he's going to miss them too.
Now normally whenever a journalist publishes his flights of fancy (or articles as I think they prefer to call them), I try to at least see where they're coming from. This time it's impossible, because he's cherry-picking his examples.
Harry Redknapp has bought 7 English players unlike everyone else who is buying foreign. Mr. White's hypothesis is that this is unusual and it's rarity is because managers increasingly believe English players aren't good enough.
What he's missing, or chosing not to report is that 1) Harry Redknapp is a wheeler-dealer and only buys cheap players and 2) Chelski, the club he is buying a lot of these English players from, are one of the few clubs who can afford to sell players at a loss.
Because the reason managers buy foreign is that they're cheaper, or, if they're not, the same price buys a higher quality. Compare £10 million for Berbatov to £16 million for Darren Bent. Makalele for £16 million to £14 million for Michael Carrick.
English players are almost always over-priced.
The players he uses as examples of where this isn't fair are all goalkeepers and while I've yet to figure out why more team aren't clamouring for Scott Carson and Ben Foster, they're merely victims of this. Because goalies are the only players who's prices aren't hype inflated (because the press doesn't care about them) but if a manager has already stopped looking in England then he's going to miss them too.
